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# Display Employee Spotlight JavaScript Client-Side Web Part
## Summary
Simple Web Part that demonstrates the use of SharePoint Framework for show casing Employee Spotlight. The web part pulls data from a configured list and User Profile service.
The properties pane for this web part has 5 canscading dropdowns.
- A drop down list of sites(webs) in the current site collection.
- A drop down list of list titles in the selected site(web).
- 3 drop downs with list of field names from selected list, which includes
* Name(Person or Group Column).
* Splotlight Description (Multiline - Enriched text Column).
* Expiry date for Spotlight event (DateTime Column with Date only option).
- The properties pane also has options for following slider effects.
* Background color - A color picker to choose Slider background color
* Font color - A color picker to choose Slider font color
* Set Auto slide - A switch to enable/disable auto slide for slider
* Slider Speed - A Slider control to select slider speed from 0sec - 7sec with 0.5sec as a step.
![Screeshot of the Employee Spotlight web part options](./assets/Employee-spotlight-options.png).
Once the user selects all the configuration details, the web part displays the spotlight details from the configured list.
![Screeshot of the Employee Spotlight web part](./assets/Employee-spotlight-priview.png).
> Data is displayed only when hosted in SharePoint. No mock data included at this point for local testing.
## Used SharePoint Framework Version
![drop](https://img.shields.io/badge/drop-GA-green.svg)
## Applies to
* [SharePoint Framework Developer](http://dev.office.com/sharepoint/docs/spfx/sharepoint-framework-overview)
* [Office 365 developer tenant](http://dev.office.com/sharepoint/docs/spfx/set-up-your-developer-tenant)
## Solution
Solution|Author(s)
--------|---------
js-employee-spotlight| SPS (Strategic Products and Services)
## Version history
Version|Date|Comments
-------|----|--------
1.0|June 12, 2017|Initial release
## Disclaimer
**THIS CODE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, MERCHANTABILITY, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT.**
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## Minimal Path to Awesome
- Clone this repository
- in the command line run:
- `npm install`
- `tsd install`
- `gulp serve`
- `Open the workbench on your Office 365 Developer tenant`
- Basic functionality can be tested locally, data is only shown when used in context of SharePoint
## Features
The js-employee-spotlight web part displays the content of the list specified in the web part properties pane, The list should have the 3 mandatory fields.
This Web Part illustrates the following concepts on top of the SharePoint Framework:
* Using a dynamic drop down box in the web part properties pane to display cascading dropdowns, which contains
- the titles webs in current sitecollection
- titles of the lists in the selected web
- fields of a selected list
* Use of a third party control(sp-client-custom-fields) for selecting webpart foregroud and background colors.
* Use of switch, slider controls to configure slider speed and auto scrolling.
* Using a javascript slider.
* Fetching the user details from User Profile service like user designation, user profile image.
* Logging.
* Rendering error messages.