Views SlideShow


10/5/12


Putting together an e-commerce type site which will include the sale of computer equipment and I need to have a front page block which will display the latest specials.    The prior 'Slideshow' module looked like a suitable option as it simply provides a slideshow of the images in exisiting nodes, but this is only available to DR6 and is no longer supported.


Views Slideshow looks a lot more complicated, but I have decided to give it a go.


Installed Views Slideshow and Views Slideshow Cycle


Instructions found at http://drupal.org/node/903244


I see that all isn't as easy as it looks - its one of these modules that needs you to download something else from somewhere else.  In this case I downloaded a file called malsup-cycle and then re-name the file jquery.cycle.all.js to jquery.cycle.all.min.js and put this in a newly created directory under libraries called jquery.cycle.  Actually I SHOULD have found jquery.cycle.all.latest.js and downloaded an renamed that one.  Nothing is simple in life.


Still nothing when I look under the front page of views (but see below).


Looked at tutorial - seems to require a module called Link Field. Cleared Views Cache - no change.


Another thing I discovered was that 'slideshow' does NOT appear on the Views page.  You have to create a new view and it becomes one of the display formats.  This is really irritating because there doesn't seem to be anything that mentions this on the slideshow page - in fact it says that it should be there.


Following the tutorial worked well.  Take a look a the results at http://www.innomark.co.za.