Topics from My Space

Please refer my Space for below topics:

• SharePoint 2007 – Enabling Forms Authentication
• Developing and Deploying Custom Web Parts for SharePoint Portal 2007
• Replace SharePoint Search
• MOSS 2007 - Business Data Catalog

Read More link on SharePoint Blog Posts

Introduction
People generally does not like to read the long posts. SharePoint 2007 - Blog does not provide with any feature to restrict the number of characters / lines to be displayed on the Blog Posts. The Blog Authors (like me) likes to write the long posts. With few such a blog posts on SharePoint - Blog site, makes the Home Page scrollable. As a result, the blog posts at the end of the page gets ignored by the readers.

Solution
The solution to this, I thought of is to use XSLT.

1. Open your sharepoint site in SharePoint Designer 2007.
2. Open default.aspx in Design View.
3. Click Insert -> SharePoint Controls -> Data View.
4. Select Posts from available data sources.
5. Switch to Code Window.
6. Modify the code as below: