Drupal 6 Simple Views Slideshow Setup In Aquia Marina

[phil30988]

Thanks for the video, one or two basic questions

Where did "cities and attractions" come from at 3:40 how did you create this?

Where did the slideshow type come from at around 5:40? to turn into a slideshow my installation doesn't have it. How do you create it?

[Digitalrecline]

@phil30988 Slideshow will show up in views if toy have installed the Views_Slideshow module as well as Views. The cities and attractions were another content type that I created. .youtube.com/watch?v=G8p0KyiPx­lk is the beginning video on how the content types were made.

[phil30988]

@Digitalrecline I have views slideshow installed and it doesn't show up. Trying to get views working is beyond me, and turning into a living nightmare I have advised my client and have had to let the contract go. Views are poorly documented, ctools are poorly documented. Nobody at Drupal seems to have a coherant logical view of their use.

Thanks for your response and good luck

[dennisterwel]

Hello, first thanks for the video.

On my site i have a grey back ground and a white for ground color. When I juse the slide show mij slideshow blok will be grey and it must be white this problem is only when you visit my site with IE. Can you tell me how to fix this problem.

Regards Dennis

[Digitalrecline]

@dennisterwel Go to Sitebuilding > Views

Go to the view created for the slideshow.

Click on Slideshow settings (wheel looking icon to the right).

Scroll ALL the way down and at the bottom you will see Internet Explorer Options.

Click to expand.

Choose False for ClearType. It even says "Some background issues could be fixed by setting this to false."

I left ClearType Background to False.

Click on Update.

[Digitalrecline]

@Digitalrecline Make sure you Save the view since you can not see the changes after clicking update. (at least I couldn't)

Then refresh the browser.

[skyfoxspb]

great video! thx! I did it on my site :)

[Digitalrecline]

@skyfoxspb glad it helped

[kumquatsta]

is there any way to change the pager control from numbered to custom text?

[Digitalrecline]

@kumquatsta I'm sure you can but it may take some digging to do (lullabot . com ) /articles/custom-paging-for-vi­ews may give you an idea. Look in the view_sldeshow forlder in the theme/views_slideshow.theme.in­c file for the functions that control the pager output.

[kumquatsta]

very well done, is therea difference between teaser and the views trim length option?

[glennunez18]

You are the best! This was great!

[Digitalrecline]

@glennunez18 cheers

[Hallis1992]

Hi! You have been very helpfull and i have now managed to make a page with imageflow. Maybe you could help me with one last question? :) Now, views are taking all the photos from the page and adding them to the imageflow slideshow. But I want to make several albums of pictures, and use views imageflow to display the pictures. Is there a way that i can for instances make view take pictures from one spesified node or something like that? Then i could just make a new node per album. Possible to do?

[Digitalrecline]

@Hallis1992 going to have a look at imageflow I've never used it. There are a few ways to do it. Create a taxonomy for the image content type some thing like ALBUM A , ALBUM B etc (this is ok to do for a few albums) then filter the pictures in views via TAXONOMY TERM. That should limit the images to the ones you want.

[Hallis1992]

@Digitalrecline I solved the problem:) made an unpublished node per album, and used filters in views to get the images from the nid, then i just cloned the view and typed in different nid per album. Dont know if it is the best way, but it works:D

[Digitalrecline]

@Hallis1992 great to hear:)

[drug508]

Hi you should try taxonomy menu and hierarchical select and then expose the menu in your respective content types.

[Digitalrecline]

@drug508 in the other vids you'll see I use taxonomy menu to add the primary menu items. Hierarchical select is good for longer more complected taxonomy/categories but I was trying to keep the vids simple as possible. I also like to use node_comment for my comments that way I can have more control but again it makes the setup more complected for new users which these videos were aimed at.

[haruhiniwa]

Is possible to create a slideshow without this module?

[Digitalrecline]

@haruhiniwa yeah you could. You could write a javascript to grab images from a folder or something but it becomes farm more labour intensive if you want to keep the image and content that may be associated with it together. Its simple once you practice a little to use this module and views.

[Hallis1992]

Hi!

Very useful video! But some questions:

How do I make a slideshow with my images? And if i want to create for instance a block with a slideshow for some pictures, and then another block with some other pictures what do i do? where do i upload images and get them in the slideshow? P.S. hope to manage to make the slideshow with the imageflow module.

[Digitalrecline]

@Hallis1992 Use an image unloader module like Imagefield and the Imagecache module - it will allow you to upload and size the images so they are consistent: Add the image field to the piece of content you want to get the images from : You can then use views and under the field section choose content then choose the image-field name and it will add the image, there will usually be two choices for each name eg name X and name X:data the data one just allows ppl to download the image file;

[Digitalrecline]

@Digitalrecline Then just set up the slideshow as shown above; the filter function in views can be used to select which content types or images you want to include/exclude in the block; Hope that helps a little,

[Hallis1992]

@Digitalrecline I manage to upload pictures, but dont size them. They get way to big:s So i stopped there:p an what do you mean by '"Add the image field to the piece of content you want to get the images from"

[Digitalrecline]

@Hallis1992 If you have the Imagefield module installed then you can add a field to the content type. That way if someone was adding content they could also add a related image. youtube.com/user/Digitalreclin­e?feature=mhum#p/u/17/G8p0KyiP­xlk to see how Make sure you have imagefield and imagecache modules installed

[bilgehanevren]

Hi Jason, I thank you so much. I already installed and it works perfect. But one thing i want to know that i would like to you this block only front page and i dont want it to show on every page. do you know how can i do this?

Thanks in advance.

[Digitalrecline]

@bilgehanevren Sure go to administer > building > blocks and find your views block then click configuration. Scroll to near the bottom it has a section for where the block should be displayed I cant remember what its called select the "show only on" check box and then in the box just type FRONT (it doesn't have to be caps) and that block will only then show on the front page.

[Digitalrecline]

@Digitalrecline

For display on just admin pages you can use things like

*/admin/* all admin pages

*/admin/mypage just mypage admin etc.

It can take a little time to find the correct page address (some seem to work funny) so you can start withe the whole url then take sections out of it using the * wildcard.

[Peppigno85]

Awesone tutorial. GG ;-)

[AHDaveH]

Mate! That was a cracking tutorial! Thanks a million. Was really struggling with Views Slideshow till now. Got it working perfectly after watching your demo. Cheers!

[Digitalrecline]

@AHDaveH thank you. I want to make a few more in-depth ones but with my work load I just haven't found time.

[AHDaveH]

@Digitalrecline Yeah I know how you feel. Now I'm starting to get my head round views but still feel lost with things like relationships and arguments.... haha just like life!

[ArhonAnkhkara]

Great presentation, I was following your steps happily, until I got to changing the style form Unformatted to Slideshow (5:50). Slideshow was not on the list? Is there something else I need to do prior to following these steps?

[Digitalrecline]

@ArhonAnkhkara sorry for the late reply. yes you need the "views slideshow module"

[chrisyeoh]

@Digitalrecline hi, thanks for the video. I too can't find the slideshow in the style options. And I checked that I've ticked the Views Slideshow module. Are there any other modules missing? I've ticked Views, Views Slideshow, Views Slideshow Cycle and View UI.

[Digitalrecline]

@chrisyeoh Make sure that you have the libraries module from the Drupal.org site and the jquery.cycle library installed. If you open the slide_show module folder their is a read-me with the download links for the jquery.cycle script. I cant remember the name of it but there is also another thing in the views module area, that also has to be checked.

[chrisyeoh]

@Digitalrecline Thanks. Found the problem. Looks like I'm still using the older Views 2. Upgraded to Views 3 and it's there now.

[Digitalrecline]

@chrisyeoh Glad you got it going :-)

[maazali123]

hey thank you !!

[Digitalrecline]

@maazali123 hope you got it working :-)

[Digitalrecline]

how did you get on? Did you get it working?