Author: Larry Pfaff, Sr Systems Analyst, Convergys Corp.

Adding The Final Pieces

Can you see the finish line yet? As you remember in Part 1 we reviewed the requirements and expectations of the data. This output needed to be easy to read and use by all end users throughout the entire organization and most of the views returned the desired results.

One advantage of using these views was no additional scripts were required to display data in table format with one column. Once we had a direction, in Part 2, we discussed some of the obstacles and limitations we ran into and how we overcame them. Although we are very close to completion there are still some details to review and modifications to make. For this all to work we will be adding the final parts (scripts) into a Content Editor Web Parts (CEWP).

Create a view – one column
Begin creating a Standard view with the listed options. This should be fairly simple. If you need details for this you may go here.

• Added one column, which contained all the data for the table layout.
  • Table – (table of data)

  

• Select your Sort and Filter options. I set sort to Ascending by Process Total. This allowed the teams who were less compliant to show closer to the top of the view
• No Group By
• No Totals – none available
• Style – tested in all views
• Item limit – your choice, this one was set at 150
  

CSS

Add a CEWP above your list view. This will contain the classes and formatting of the table. Be specific in the class names otherwise the formatting would be transferred to other parts of the page.

There are several references available on the net to provide you with more details: HeatherSolomon.com is one of the most commonly used.

Once you have added your CEWP to your list view you can add the CSS below. Initially my styles were off, which cause some formatting conflicts. Thanks Christophe for the style update for the table borders mentioned in Part 1.

<style type="text/css">
table.myboxed, table.myboxed TD, table.myboxed TH {
				border: 1px solid black!important;
				border-collapse: collapse;
				font-size: 10pt;
}
.twidth {
				width: 100px;
}
.comp {
				color: green;
				font-weight: bold;
}
.nc {
				color: maroon;
				font-weight: bold;
}
.e {
				color: orange;
				font-weight: bold;
}
.label {
				font-weight: bold;
}
</style>

HTML Calculated Column

The key script to display the images, color and table layout can be downloaded here with instructions for installation.

Final product looks like this:

Final thoughts

As I sat down to complete this final part in this 3 part series “Case study: course compliance report” I found IE and FF definitely don’t play well together. I also found there are several things I would do differently. With all the pieces placed together the results are astounding, but this is only one of many ways that scripts, intuitiveness and desire can produce outstanding results.

One of the changes I thought about making was to the progress bar. Currently I am in the process of showing both Complete and Exempt on the same bar as one continuous bar like this.

54%

8%

In theory this works. I can replicate it in a regular html table with div tags, but when implemented into a CC I lose either the color or the percent for the % Exempt. Will keep you posted on the progress, but for now I will continue to hack away until I figure it out.

Since the beginning of this article I was inspired to start my own blog at http://sharepointhacker.wordpress.com. Although this blog may never have any new intermediate scripts it will have scripts implemented in real world scenarios, which I feel will provide beneficial learning. For a long time I always considered myself just a hacker, never wrote any original scripts, so I thought. I would always find someone else’s code and tweak it to fit my needs until one day a blogger said to me:

“More than the script we come up with, what is important is the innovative way in which we approach a real world issue”.

Christophe

Thanks again Christophe for your support.