I am creating a slideshow displaying a multitude of custom content types. I would like to display recent activity for each content type. I would like each slide to contain a list of (pager defined) recent activity per content type. I have only selected to display the title field.

Currently, my slideshow only displays one title field. The slideshow should only contain the same number of slides as the number of content types selected. So if I chose five content types, only five slides should display (currently it set to the pager count). Each slide should contain a list of titles relevant to that content type. It seems like I am trying to make each slide display a custom view.

Is this possible?

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Bright Web Design commented

Make a filter to your module by content types you want to display
Make a display order by updated or modified date
Make the number of slides or items you want to display on the slide show
So that you get the exact result as you expected.

Best Wishes

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Stomper commented

Thanks for the tips, Cyril, but I am still not able to achieve what I am looking for. I made the changes you suggested but was unable to find where to change the number of slides. I did find the "items per slide" option but it didn't really help (I increased the items per slide).

Currently, with the changes made, the number of items per slide are displayed but they are not organized by content type. I want each slide to only display a list of items from that content type, thus the number of slides should be the number of content types selected (filter setting).

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Stomper commented

Been working on this and still can't get each content type to print on its own slide - aka a slide of content A, a slide of content B etc.

Can you please provide me with detailed steps.

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redndahead commented

Can you provide an image or pdf of what you are trying to accomplish? I'm not really understanding what you're after.

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Stomper commented

I can't really produce an image, but I can try to explain it clearer.

Let's say I have four content types. For my views slideshow I would like it to be composed of only four slides, where each slide is dedicated to only one content type. The number of total slides will equal the number of total content types used in the slideshow.

For each slide I will likely use the title field of each node for each content type, so each slide in effect would display a list of titles filtered by publish date. I understand the filter-field aspect, I am just confused with keeping one content type to one slide. Almost like a views slideshow of views.

Slide1: Content type A
Slide2: Content type B
Slide3: Content type C
Slide4: Content type D

I hope this clarifies things.

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redndahead commented
Status: Active » Postponed (maintainer needs more info)

So what you are really looking for is a view of views. I may try this module http://drupal.org/project/viewfield.

1) Create a different view for each content type that lists the node titles in the way that you want.
2) Create a content type called content type slide
3) Add a view field to that content type.
4) Save it
5) Add a new slide
6) Choose one of the content types views
7) Keep on creating content type slides until you have reached the number of content types you want.
8) Create a slideshow view of the slide content type.

Not sure if this will render all correctly, but worth a shot.

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Stomper commented

Thanks for the suggestion and guide. I'll give it a go and report back.

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redndahead commented
Status: Postponed (maintainer needs more info) » Fixed
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Stomper commented

Made quite a bit of progress but am having one issue.

I have created all the views I needed as well as the content type with the viewfield field. I have created the "slideshow" view and have set the field to the viewfield field of the content type. I have also set the filter to only that specific content type.

Currently the slidehow only displays one pane with each view listed one after the other, I would like a separate pane for each view. How can I configure that?

One other thing, the individual views I've created each have their own titles, they are not being printed. Do I need also specify the view title as field too?

Thanks

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Stomper commented

Issue for Viewfield pertaining to Views_Slideshow rendering issues http://drupal.org/node/909246

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.