HOW TO INSTALL & SETUP VIEWS SLIDESHOW MODULE ON DRUPAL7 (Sreencast)

Hi Ciril.

Great vid easy to follow quality needs a bit of work however simple easy to follow tutorial.

Can you please tell how to hide the thumbnails from view?

Regards,

Colin

We really appreciate your tutorial. It was a great help to configure our slide, instead of guessing all the different parameters.

And once again,

Thank you very much ;)

Whew, made it through and got it working :D Went overboard on the exclusions which more or less caused me my own window of grief, so for anyone wondering why they keep getting hammered with:

"uses fields but there are none defined for it or all are excluded."

It's because you don't exclude every field! :)

Also the Line 14 error if you go with the latest edition of everything (as of July 2nd) will disappear if you just keep going so don't get hung up on it.

Quick question however... what's the deal with the thumbnail image that changes with the hover? How would you recommend making it hiding it? Is it something in Views or do we target it with CSS and kick it off the page?

Thanks again, seeing it work really helps those of us still building out bag of drupal tricks and sliders sure have a magical way of making a homepage simply *pop!*

Thank you Ciril for this great video - it saved me so much time!!

The thumbnails, when I click on them after adding the root of my site to the URL, it goes to the home page. If I add the path to the slideshow (not on homepage) it refreshes the page, not advances the slideshow.

I'm so confused. But thanks I tried for 4 hours to get it this far. Kinda complex isn't it?

Hi,

I've followed your screencast step by step... twice and I don't know what am I missing. On the front page the slide won't show. I have a region called featured_slider in page.tpl.php:

<?php if ($page['featured_slider']): ?>

<?php print render($page['featured_slider']); ?>

<?php endif; ?>

and in template.php:

function phptemplate_regions() {
$regions = phptemplate_regions();
$regions['featured_slider'] = ('featured_slider');
return $regions;
}

if I make a test block in that region it shows but if I move the View: Featured Slider nothing happens.

TY for this screencast and tutorial.

I see this happening in your tutorial, and it's happening in my setup based on yours.

I have my thumbnails inline, but for each main image, I have a row beneath it with the current thumbnail. How do I get rid of it? Maybe you could cove some styling in a tutorial as well.

Here's a screenshot of what's happening with my slideshow. Appreciate any help.

http://mlui.org/slideshowthumbs.png

thanks for this, its defo the most straight forward tut for adding the views slideshow. one thing ive noticed, is you forgot to select the "exclude from display" option for the thumbnail image, i think this is the problem @Colin is having.

my question is, do you know how to implement the carousel thumbnail? im finding no real help for this anywhere, its kinda like looking for a needle in a haystack.

thanks again

Tommy

Thanks for this tuto, it helped me a lot, eventhough the kind of thing I want to do is slightly different, and even having learned a lot with this video I can not imagine how to achieve my goal.

The kind of menu I would like to do, you can see it at this web page: http://www.archstl.org, the one that you can see just under the head zone, the one with the green arrows on both sides.

I would apreciate any help or a refference to a tutorial that explain something similar if not the same.

Thanks again

Thank you SO much for your tutorial! If it was not for your tutorial, I do not know what I would have done!

But I do have one problem--do I *have* to use the thumbnail images that sit underneath the banner itself? I do not want those displayed at all--I would rather JUST the large block on top that flashes through the images that I set into that class, and NOT even show the thumbnails underneath it. How can I achieve this?

Thanks again for the wonderful tutorial!

--etcbbu

Firstly, kudos for the excellent text and video tutorial on this subject. I followed your instructions and got my slideshow working first time. Thank you.

I don't know if you can help with this but I cannot get my replacement patterns to appear. I've got Token and ordered my fields in the way you suggest but the patterns do not make themselves available to me when I come to configure the image in Views.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks again
T

Hello Ciril,
Great tutorial. Really learned a lot. Keep up the great work! I have one question for you, my content type allows for uploading multiple images on each node. I want to cycle through all the images of a node one by one by clicking or hovering over each thumbnail. How can I do that?

I'd appreciate your feedback.

Regards,

Mario

hi,

thks. for this very helpful tutorial

I tweaked it a little: instead of using an external link field/url path, I just put the "Content: Link" field, available for all content types in views, Exclude from display.

I used slide image twice with 2 styles: full-size & thumbnail.

I linked "full-size image" to its node "Output this field as a link: [view_node]".

I also used the "Colorbox formatter" to display the "Node image style: full-size image", when click on "Colorbox image style: thumbnail", "Caption: Node title", Gallery: Per field/page gallery"

I left "thumbnail image" untouched: "Formatter: image", "Image style: thumbnail", "Link image to: nothing".

It will display a slideshow: "Slideshow Type: cycle", "Pager fields: Content: thumbnail image".

The full-size image will pop-up in a colorbox, displaying title as caption.

Now: I want to display this colorbox with more info: a multi-fields/ multi-rows caption: image + title + description.

Can you help me pls. with this one.
Thks. a lot.
Iancu

Hi Ciril, I have followed your screencast and I have succeeded, everything was working wonderfully, but from one day to the next the slideshow has stoped working, I have checked everything, I have remade the view but nothing, I don't know what else to do, please some tips, or guidance to find the problem.

Thanks.

Hi;

How can I create a slideshow that like your frontpage?
What are diffrence between this tuts and your page? how can I change it and apply?