Comments on: HTML Calculated Column and Unicode Graphics

By: angle leyoth

angle leyoth — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 10:50:01 +0000

Possibly the top blog that I read this year.

By: Christophe

Christophe — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 00:31:55 +0000

Lisa, how about a simple copy/paste?

By: Lisa Davis

Lisa Davis — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 20:43:40 +0000

This may be a stupid question, but I can’t figure out how to use the unicode symbols. I tried replacing the symbol with just the hex number, then I tried the # sign with the hex. I looked on the site you referenced, but couldn’t find anything. I also googled how to use it, and didn’t find what I need. Please help!!

By: Tiziana

Tiziana — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 13:51:30 +0000

Hi Christophe,

I am trying to adapt the above method to display symbols such as up/down arrows based on the unicode graphics but with no concrete positive result.

Could you please help me or send me the code that I need to use in the calculated column? Which other column will the calculated column refer to?

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Links (1/7/2010) « Steve Pietrek-Everything SharePoint/Silverlight — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 00:07:07 +0000

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By: Christophe

Christophe — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 07:47:50 +0000

Execs and dashboards, you’re saying? Then you might be interested in this post about KPI roll-up in MOSS.
I am also about to publish a similar series for wss, and it will be the subject of my session at SharePoint Saturday EMEA. This post is actually an appetizer, to get you prepared for the whole series.

By: Byron

Byron — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 07:03:11 +0000

Chris,

Thanks for the reply. I did not realize that when you selected an individual list, the new page that is showed is actually a “new page” (well, now that I write it out like that, it sounds rather obvious…) that you also need to add the CEWP to.

I thought it was just the view of the single web part. I have that working now, so I can see if I can impress the heck out of the execs by adding this new feature to our dashboards.

Regds,
Byron.

By: Christophe

Christophe — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 05:34:47 +0000

Byron, the CEWP needs to be added to every page where you want to render the html (for example the MOSS list page in your case). In a couple days I’ll show another approach using the Data View Web Part, where the CEWP is not needed.

By: Byron Johnson

Byron Johnson — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 19:28:13 +0000

Question – I was able to make the traffic lights to work (I added a CEWP to the bottom of the page, and then linked it to the text your text-HTML file that I stored on another page).

Issue:
When the entire page is displayed, the lights work correctly, but when I select the MOSS list (so only it is displayed), the traffic light column reverts back to displaying the text formula (and not the traffic lights.

Is there any way to fix this?

Byron J.
(and thanks for these tools and cool ideas!)