This post follows my Accordion Navigation Collections post and contains the XSL I used at OpenWorld to convert an Applications (formerly Enterprise) Portal news publication into a slideshow. The XSL assumes you have images associated with your news content. Even though the XSL and JavaScript will operate fine with images of different sizes, I recommend that each of the images used with this XSL be of the same size. Here is the XSL: slideshow-hosted.xsl
All of the usual disclaimers apply. Don't trust anyone else's code -- Understand what it is doing before you use it. You take full responsibility for the code once you download it. Don't delegate your responsibility, especially to someone that offers you code for free.
Disclaimer: I make no warranty regarding the use of this XSL.
Security Warning: To make sure the XSL will work "out of the box," I pointed the JavaScript at Google's hosted JavaScript API's and the jQuery Cycle download site. Since this code is used on your enterprise home pages, I suggest you replace these references with references to your own site's versions of these libraries. The thought of allowing some external service to run code on my pages makes me a bit nervous.
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3 comments:
Hi Jim. This is great stuff - keep it coming.
Most people know what XSL is and some will know how to write or at least interpret simple XSL.
My question is "What is the easiest way of writing XSL?"
Maybe you (and others) can share which tools they use to help produce the very verbose and often scary looking XSL.
Thanks
Graham
Jim,
With PeopleTools 8.5x is it possible to point the Javascript references to any delivered Javascript/AJAX libraries on the PeopleSoft Web Server? I've typically added the files manually, but I'm wondering if they are now installed by the web server with PeopleSoft now using AJAX on delivered pages.
Thanks.
John
@John, If I understand your question correctly, you are wondering if you should still use jQuery, etc or if you should switch to something that PeopleTools uses. I encourage you and all customers to stick with jQuery. The PeopleTools Ajax JavaScript libraries are very proprietary and undocumented. You will be much happier if you stick with jQuery.
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