Just another utility to have in your arsenal but very useful and very commonly asked by some customers. Pretty trivial to develope however only part that needs a bit of thinking is how to randomly generate a quote on a daily basis.
To begin, Create a sharepoint list that looks something like this –
Title (Single Text) | Quote (Multiple lines of text ) |
Albert Einstein | Put some famous text here |
Oscar Wilde | Put something here |
Now we need to write a javascript code that will use EcmaScript(javascript) client object model to randomly pick one item from this list and display. I have not used any ‘random’ function – the key is to get the current date as a number such as 20140226 ( for 26 feb 2014) and apply modulus operator with the no of items in the list.
Feel free to download the code from HERE.
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