Microsoft Sharepoint Web Parts

Sharepoint News Rollup Web Part

The News Rollup Web Part displays the most recent announcements of each Annoucement List within the Sharepoint Site collection and thus gives much better visibility to new announcements published anywhere within the current site collection. The News Roll Up Web Part displays the announcement title (linked to the announcement entry), the first few words, the author and the post date. The Web Part can be used with Windows Sharepoint Services V3, MOSS 2007, Sharepoint 2010,  Sharepoint 2013, Sharepoint 2016 (both Server and Foundation)and Office 365. 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      News Rollup Web Part for SP 2007 and 2010 30 Day Evaluation Version (Release 1.2.23)  Free News Rollup Web Part for SP 2013 30 Day Evaluation Version (Release 1.2.23)  Free News Rollup Web Part for SP 2016 30 Day Evaluation Version (Release 1.2.23)  Free News Rollup Web Part Sandbox Version (on-premise only) 30 Day Evaluation Version (Release 1.2.7) Free News Rollup Web Part for Office 365 30 Day Evaluation Version (Release 3.0.0) Free News Rollup Web Part License Key per Server License Includes 1 year technical support USD 150.00  News Rollup Web Part Installation Instructions Deployment Instructions for SP 2010 Deployment Instructions for SP 2013/2016

Installation Instructions: download the News 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 Announcements Total: Enter the desired maximal number of items to be displayed (Default=5) Nbr. of Announcements per List: Enter the desired maximum number of announcements  to be displayed per List (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 announcement body text. Display Pictures: choose one of the available options: - none - Author - Embedded (show first picture embedded in the announcement body) - Site Icon - Extra Column (show the picture as defined in the "Show Extra Column" setting) - Attachment (If you choose to display the author's picture (as defined in the Sharepoint user profile). and no author picture is defined, a generic picture will be displayed).   Image Width: enter the desired width of the author's picture in pixels. Default Picture: (optional) specify a default user picture or news picture (if there is no picture available for the News 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. Example: /yoursite/yourPictureLibrary/yourDefaultUser.jpg 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. Display Attachments: display the item's file attachment(s) in the footer area. The annoucement's file attachments will be displayed as paper clips and can be opened in a new browser window: Display Author Name: display the name of the author in the footer area. Display List Name: display the name of the announcement  List in the footer area. Display Site Name: display the name of the Site that contains the List. Display Publication Date: show or hide the date of publication in the footer area Display "published" Date as string:  either display the published date of the News 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 annoucements. Open Links in Popup Window: opens the links to the announcements in a popup dialog window (only available for Sharepoint 2010 and Sharepoint 2013). Show extra column(s): optionally show one ore multiple extra columns in the item footer area. Separate multiple entries by semicolons. If the column is of type "Person or Group", please add the "/user" postfix: Examples: Editor/user Category;Country If the "Display Pictures" setting is set to "Extra Column", then the extra column will be displayed as the post's picture. News Layout: choose one the below layout options: - linear (default) - indented (the top item is displayed more prominent) - single (each item is displayed on a single line) - embedded (the picture is embedded in the news text) - Grid (displays the news in a grid) - featured (displays the top news item using the full width) Header: optionally display a custom web part header. Enter any text (including optional HTML tags)  Footer: optionally display a custom web part footer. Enter any text (including optional HTML tags)  Lists to be included: (optional) explicitly enter the Announcement Lists you want to be included (leave this field empty to include all Announcement Lists in the site collection). Enter the Announcement List names using the relative Anouncement List URL. Separate the entries with a semicolon. Example: News;Subsite/SomeNewsList;OtherSite/anotherNewsList If you append the “*” wildcard character at the end of an entry , the web part will return all announcements in this path. Example: SomeSite* will return all news from the “SomeSite” site and the sites below it. If you prefix an entry with the "!" character, the web part will exclude that site’s announcements. Example: !SomeSite Category Filter: (optional) only display announcements that match the given 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 announcements that are not part of this category).  Example: !Music;!Politics Property Filter: optionally filter the announcements by one or more columns. Separate multiple filters by semicolons. Specify the column to be used as a filter by using the following syntax: ColumnName=value [CustomColumnName]=value Please note that the column specified as a filter will need to be present in all announcements lists throughout the site collection. Surround the column name by square brackets if the column is a custom column (ie. not one of the default Announcement List columns) Examples: Author LIKE '%John Doe' will only return announcements created by John Doe. Author LIKE '%{username}' will only return announcements created by the current user. Category='Sharepoint' will only return announcements having the "Sharepoint" category. [Public]=1 will only return announcements having the custom "Public" column of type "Yes/No" set to "Yes" Site Collection Name: enter the domain URL of the Sharepoint site collection if you want to roll up announcements contained in a different site collection. Search only subsites: Roll up only announcements defined in a subsite of the current site Suppress expired items: do not show the announcements that already have expired. Interactive Sort Menu: optionally display a "Sort by" menu at the top of the web part that allows users to interactively choose the sort order. Enter the desired sort columns, separated by semicolons. Example: Created;Author;Title 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 News Rollup Web Part license). Leave this field empty if you are using the evaluation version.