The Expert News Rotator Webpart 2010
// November 17th, 2010 // Uncategorized
So its been a while since i last released this webpart, in fact more than a year. I have upgraded it to support Sharepoint 2010 and added a new feature which makes the news rotator easier to use.
The feature allows users to use an “image uploader” column when adding both the main image and the thumbnail image on the news rotator. Once the webpart has been installed, the announcements list, which hosts the news items needs to be configured in the following way (the following image shows the image uploader type column):
1. Create 2 columns on the appropriate announcements list – These columns should be of type “Image Uploader” and should be called “Image File” and “Image Thumb Url”.
2. The 1st image uploader column (“Image File”) should have a width set to 270px
3. The 2nd image uploader column (“Image Thumb Url”) should have a width set to 50px
4. Remember to disable attachments for this list.
5. Other configuration includes the “upload images to the following list” storage document library (where the images will be stored, along with the resized images)
Then add the webpart to the page and edit the properties of the webpart (toolpane)
1. Set “News Image URL Column” to “Image File”
2. Set “News Thumb Image URL Column” to “Image Thumb Url”
You can download this version of the webpart (2010 version) on codeplex here
Hi,
Is the new webpart still supposed to work with sharepoint 2007. I tried to add the solution and got this error.
C:\~Installation Files>stsadm -o addsolution -filename ExpertNewsRotator.wsp
Solution manifest for solution ’10f4dda2-7221-4e9e-8e42-5b78929da64e’ failed val
idation, file manifest.xml, line 2, character 110: The ‘SharePointProductVersion
‘ attribute is not declared.
ExpertNewsRotator.wsp: The Solution installation failed.
What are you using for the “image uploader” column?
Can I get the MOSS 2007 version somewhere? or should this one work for 2007?
Hey,
im using a custom developed solution which is packaged with the webpart.
No, please check out http://newsrotator.codeplex.com to get the 2007 version
Please check out http://newsrotator.codeplex.com to get the 2007 version
Just wondering if it would be possible to get the source code for this web part? I would like to modify it to allow an external URL to be used in place of linking to the announcement list item.
Hi is there any way to get the news items to auto-rotate through the list, rather than requiring users to click on each item to change the news?
Hey,
I was wondering what is the best way to deploy this solution.
How do you deploy this solution
Hi, same as Nick.
I’m not that familiar with Webparts installations. What I did was to UPLOAD the web part. Nothing happened at all. I can’t find the web part. Where is it located now?
I’m sure it’s not that simple to install, do you have a kind of installation guide? Do I need to install something else?
Great job anyway.
This is the way i did it:
1. In Powershell type:
add-spsolution -LiteralPath x:\…\ExpertNewsRotator.wsp
(run powershell as administrator!)
2. Deploy in the central administration
3. Activate in site collection
No, please check out http://newsrotator.codeplex.com to get the 2007 version
Hi, we’ve used the 2007 version – how do we upgrade the list to support 2010? currently we have a problem displaying, editing and creating new news items after we upgraded to 2010. I suspect this is due to the Image column used in the 2007 version.
Hi
I download the 2007 version from Codeplex and install it. but I don’t have the “Image Uploader” column! Please help me,
I use Moss2007 with language id :1065 (right to left language)
thanks a lot
Hi,
Nice webpart. Will you be uploading the source code for additional enhancements/changes to be added.
Thanks,
Rene
This is a nice tool but it would be even better If it would be possible to write any URL instead of linking it to the announcement list item only
I am wondering if the next version will have the rotating capability.
Hi, I´ve got the solution from http://newsrotator.codeplex.com but it isn´t possible to install in WSS 3.0. In the command stsadm -o addsolution appears the error:
Solution manifest for solution ’10f4dda2-7221-4e9e-8e42-5b78929da64e’ failed validation, file manifest.xml, line 2, character 110: The ‘SharePointProductVersion ‘ attribute is not declared. ExpertNewsRotator.wsp: The Solution installation failed.
Thanks for the help.
I am unable to use https:…. as the site name within the settings. Is there a way around this?
I’m wondering if you could tell me how to manipulate the CSS so that it displays the articles horizontally instead of vertically.
I have narrowed the main width which automatically takes the thumbs and text that were previously on the right and puts them on the bottom. It would be awesome if they could dislay horizontally.
Thanks!