Jazz Rotator Web Part
The Jazz Rotator Web Part rotates through Jazz objects one at a time. This is useful as a news rotator.
 Figure 1: Jazz Rotator
Rotator use of Cover Flow
Figure 1 shows the rotator used in Cover Flow mode. The text flies into view from the bottom right. For this example, multiple fields with their labels (Show Labels property is checked) are displayed as the item.
The red arrows show the direction of the flow of the notes across the screen.
Rotator use of Automatic Advance
Figures 2 and 3 show the display and editing of the same note, respectively.
Figure 2 shows the rotator used in Automatic Advance mode as the text scrolls up. For this example, two properties are displayed: Title and Body for the Notes object. The Title - 'Jazz Apps are great!' and the Body - picture and rich text are both saved and displayed as Rich Text that was entered in the Rich Text Editor.
Jazz Editor Web Part
Figure 3 shows the [Jazz Editor Web Part] used to create a Note - just click 'Create note' and the editing of the Note. Within the editor, the body field uses a Rich Text Editor for text entry. Note that the Title field has been decorated with HTML tags.
Filtering notes
The Editor for the Note shows that the last field is Status with Active selected. This is useful, because Status can be used as a filter to only display 'Active' Notes. This allows the user to create notes, work on them and when ready, mark them 'Active' and then when they are ready to retire, mark them 'Completed'.
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 Figure 2: Jazz Rotator  Figure 3: Jazz Note Editor |
Access
This Web Part is accessed by the
Jazz Base Library.
Edit Properties
Custom Edit properties include:
- Class Name: The class name of Jazz objects that are displayed.
- Refer to Jazz Sorting for Sort Property, Foreign Key Sort, Sort Order parameters
- Refer to Jazz Filtering for Config File, Filter by Site, Filter, Foreign Key Filter parameters
- Note: the filter for this example is ClassType=Note;StatusId=1;GroupName=Home;. This means that Notes are displayed that are Active = 1 and the GroupName is Home meaning 'Home page'.
- Url Property: The field in the Jazz object that represents a url and can be used in the Web Part as a link to be clicked.
- Panel CssClass: The CSS style for the background.
- Scroll Duration: The length of time that it takes to scroll to the next object.
- Frame Duration: Thee length of time that the object is displayed.
- Rotator Type: The way in which objects are rotated.
- AutomaticAdvance (shown in Figure 2)
- ButtonsOver: buttons allow user to advance to the next item.
- Buttons
- SlideShow: displays items as a slide show.
- SlideShowButtons
- FromCode
- Carousel
- CarouselButtons: useful only in large spaces and/or with photos.
- CoverFlow (shown in Figure 1)
- CoverFlowButtons
- Scroll Direction: defines the direction from which the next item scrolls into view.
- Show Labels?: If checked, then show the labels for the Jazz object.
- Start with Random Item?: If checked, then the rotator will select a random item to display when started.
- Jazz Common Edit Properties
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 Figure 4a: Editor for Jazz Rotator  Figure 4b: Editor for Jazz Rotator |