Microsoft Sharepoint Web Parts

Sharepoint Blog Rollup Web Part

The Blog Rollup Web Part displays the most recent Blog posts of each Blog within the Sharepoint Site collection and thus gives much better visibility to new blog posts published anywhere within the current site collection. The Blog Roll Up Web Part displays the blog post title (linked to the blog entry), the first few words, the author, the number of comments and the post date. The Web Part can be used with Windows Sharepoint Services V3, MOSS 2007, Sharepoint 2010 (both Server and Foundation),  Sharepoint 2013, Sharepoint 2016 and Office365/Sharepoint Online. The following parameters can be configured: Number of announcements to be displayed Custom CSS styles Number of words to be displayed per post Show/hide author's picture Product Price      Blog Rollup Web Part for SP 2007 and 2010 30 Day Evaluation Version (Release 2.0.42)  Free Blog Rollup Web Part for SP 2013 30 Day Evaluation Version (Release 2.0.42)  Free Blog Rollup Web Part for SP 2016 30 Day Evaluation Version (Release 2.0.42)  Free Blog Rollup "MySite" Web Part for SP 2007 and 2010 30 Day Evaluation Version  Free Blog Rollup "MySite" Web Part for SP 2013 30 Day Evaluation Version  Free Blog Rollup "MySite" Web Part for SP 2016 30 Day Evaluation Version  Free Blog Rollup Web Part for Office365 30 Day Evaluation Version (Release 3.0.4)  Free Blog Rollup Web Part License Key per Server License Includes 1 year technical support USD 150.00  Blog Rollup Web Part Installation Instructions Deployment Instructions for SP 2010 Deployment Instructions for SP 2013

Installation Instructions: download the Blog Rollup Web Part Installation Instructions (PDF file, see above)  either install the web part manually or deploy the feature to your server/farm as described in the instructions. Configure the following Web Part properties in the Web Part Editor "Miscellaneous" pane section as needed: Nbr. of Blog Post Items: Enter the desired maximal number of items to be displayed (Default=5) Nbr. of Post per Blog: Enter the desired maximal number of posts per blog to be displayed (Default=3) Web Part CSS Style: Enter the desired CSS styles to format the web part. You can apply multiple CSS styles separated by semicolons. Example: background-color:#ffffcc Max. nbr. of words displayed: Enter the maximum number of words to be displayed in the body text. Detail Link Text: enter the link's text to be displayed if the body text is truncated (see "Max. nbr. of words" setting above). You can embed HTML to control the rendering of the link. Example: <P style="MARGIN: 0px; TEXT-ALIGN: right">read more..</P> Suppress HTML: allows you to either suppress or enable the embedded HTML in the post body text. Show Author Pictures: display the author's picture (as defined in the Sharepoint user profile). If this option is enabled and no picture is defined, a generic picture will be displayed. Default Author Picture: (optional) specify a default user picture (if there is no user picture available for the blog author) by entering a relative URL to the image. The web part supplies a built-in generic user picture if this field is left empty. To enforce the display of this picture (even if the user picture is available), please prefix the URL with an exclamation mark. Examples: /yoursite/yourPictureLibrary/yourDefaultUser.jpg !/yoursite/yourPictureLibrary/yourDefaultUser.jpg You also can display the blog post date as an icon by entering "blogdate" into this field. Also make sure to uncheck both "Show Author Picture" and "Show Blog Icon" in this case. Show Blog Icon: shows the site icon assigned to the blog instead of the author's picture. Show Blog Name: displays the blog's name. Show Author Name: displays the blog post author's name. Show Presence Icon: displays or hides the blog author's presence icon. Display number of comments: show or hide the number of comments related to each blog entry: Show Blog Category: display the catgory name(s) assigned to a blog post in the footer area. Show Blog Post Date: displays or hides the blog post publication date. Display "published" Date as string:  either display the published date of the blog post as a date or as a verbose string (as. eg. "2 weeks ago"). Show 'New' icon for new posts: optionally display the Sharepoint 'New' icon flag for new blog posts. Blogs to be included: (optional) explicitly enter the blogs you want to be included (leave this field empty to include all blogs in the site collection). Enter the blogs using the relative blog URL. Separate the entries with a semicolon. Example: Blog;Subsite/SomeBlog;OtherSite/anotherBlog If you prefix an entry with the "!" character, the web part will exclude the specified blog site. Example: !Subsite/SomeBlog Blog Category: (optional) only display blog posts that match the given blog category. You can combine multiple categories (separated by semicolons). Example: Music;Politics You can also exclude categories by preceding the category by a "!" character (eg. show only blog posts that are not part of this category).  Example: !Music;!Politics Suppress posts older than (days): optionally allows to suppress all blog posts that are older than the specified number of days. Enter zero if you don't want to enable this feature. Page Size: the web part supports paging and lets you specify the desired number of rows per page. Enter the value "0" to turn off paging. Footer: optionally display a custom Footer text for each Blog post. you can alternatively place the footer at the bottom of the web part by prefixing it with an ampersand @ character. Site Collection Name: enter the URL of the desired site collection(s) if the blogs to be rolled-up are located in another site collection. Separate multiple site collection URL's with semicolons. Search only subsites: Roll up only blogs defined in a subsite of the current site Open Links in Popup Window: opens the links to the blog posts in a popup dialog window (only available for Sharepoint 2010, 2013 and 2016). Cache Retention Time: enter the data cache retention time in minutes (enter "0" to turn off the cache feature) to speed up consecutive page visits. The use of this feature is recommened for deep site structures. License Key: enter your Product License Key (as supplied after purchase of the Blog Rollup Web Part license). Leave this field empty if you are using the evaluation version.