How to add a link to the rest of the paragraph in SharePoint Announcements?

Question

How can I create a link to the rest of the paragraph in an announcement in SharePoint, that displays the word: read more

Cheers

Answer 1

If you have a page and can edit it in SharePoint Designer, try this. If you want to have a web part that shows the announcement the way you want, try this.

Answer 2

I've found that the cleanest, easiest way to do this is to create a template in ItemStyle.xsl which selects a substring of the body content of the announcement and displays a link below to the article itself.

After adding the following code to your ItemStyle.xsl file (in SharePoint Designer navigate to the 'Style Library/XSL Style Sheets' folder), you can modify the web part through the browser, and change the Item Style (Presentation/Styles) to 'ReadMoreAnnouncements'. This code keeps the amount of characters displayed to 190 characters (see the substring($bodyContent,1,190 function call).

<xsl:template name="removeMarkup">
       <xsl:param name="string" />
       <xsl:choose>
       <xsl:when test="contains($string, '&lt;')">
              <xsl:variable name="nextString">
                     <xsl:call-template name="removeMarkup">
                     <xsl:with-param name="string" select="substring-after($string, '&gt;')" />
                     </xsl:call-template>
              </xsl:variable>
              <xsl:value-of select="concat(substring-before($string, '&lt;'), $nextString)" />
       </xsl:when>
       <xsl:otherwise>
              <xsl:value-of select="$string" />
       </xsl:otherwise>
       </xsl:choose>
</xsl:template> 
<xsl:template name="ReadMoreAnnouncements" match="Row[@Style='ReadMoreAnnouncements']" mode="itemstyle">
 <br />
 <div class="RMAnnouncementsTitle">
  <xsl:value-of select="@Title" />
 </div>
 <div class="RMAnnouncementsBody">
  <xsl:variable name="bodyContent">
   <xsl:call-template name="removeMarkup">
    <xsl:with-param name="string" select="@Body"/>
   </xsl:call-template>
  </xsl:variable>
  <xsl:value-of select="substring($bodyContent,1,190)" />
  ...
  <br />
  <a>
   <xsl:attribute name="href">
    /Lists/Announcements/DispForm.aspx?ID=
    <xsl:value-of select="@ID">
    </xsl:value-of>
   </xsl:attribute>
   <xsl:attribute name="class">
    RMAnnouncementsMoreLink
   </xsl:attribute>
   read more
  </a>
 </div>
</xsl:template>

This should definitely work, and it's very very easy to implement.

Answer 3

Ryan, I know I'm soo late answering you but yes, thanks, just checked again this website and I'm trying to implement it. I opened in SharePoint designer the ItemStyle.xsl and checked it out then tried to add your code but it doesn't paste it?! Have I missed an other step?

I'm new at Sharepoint designer and I am very careful with it.

Many thanks again! Nassi