Case Study – Dynamic Charts in SharePoint – no code required

Thanks to help from EndUserSharePoint.com for their great jQuery articles I developed an in house solution to display dynamic charts and graphs from a Task List.

Check it out on EndUserSharePoint.com here.

Thanks to Mark Miller for hosting my article.

Case Study – Truncating text field using XSLT in DataView Web Part

Thanks to Shaun O’Callagahan who sent me a link to his blog and this post that I found at sharepoint Kevin’s blog - http://www.sharepointkevin.com/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=14

I managed to edit the XSLT in Sharepoint designer to truncate the text field of a Data View Web Part so that the main body of my News article is limited to 250 characters enabling me to create a web part for a home page using SharePoint Designer that only shows some of the body with a link to the full article at the end.

Thanks guys, your help is much appreciated!