Using with text

Haven't tried using it with text yet. Not all the options are implemented. But we'll get there eventually.

Good lord, this isn't the thread I intended to post into - Sorry!

Sorry - didn't intend to change status either.

Won't change status until the maintainer sees fit, though I have tested this with text and images for a client in conjunction with Views Slideshow, and it seems to be working swimmingly. YMMV, of course.

davidwatson, can you give us a quick run down on what you did with Views?

Getting something akin to some documentation is crucial, just a quite overview would help a lot.

For example - did you associate a text field with an image? If so, how?

Did you nuke the existing automagic captioning (this should be optional btw)?

Just a note on where I'm at with implementation.

I haven't had much time to work on FlexSlider in the last month. But I do have a project starting today which will require usage of the module so I'll be able to create a full release and hopefully build in the text slider functionality.

Thanks for your patience!

@5 - Using Views Slideshow, I pulled a listing of published nodes by content type. When defining fields, I then used the node's title, followed by the first image of each attached image field. A modest amount of CSS was all that was needed to achieve the desired result: a heading with the node's title above the representative image of that node, each linking to the node they represent. Once the site goes live, I'd be happy to link to it.

I have this issue followed, so I'll see if I can't post something more thorough later on.

You should be able to use the caption support with Views Slideshow as of right now. With just Views, you can use the "Title" field or set alt text on the image to get the caption. Also, I believe if you set a field with the class "flex-caption" it will pick that up as the caption (see the Flex Slider docs for more on that).

As for using only text in the slides, that isn't supported for Flex Slider so we won't be doing that. I'm going to close this issue since captions are now supported. Views integration will be extended to have the same form options as Views Slideshow.

Thanks!

Since the current version of Flex Slider supports setting a 'selector' option, it is possible to initialize a slider without images.
This is what i used for a view without image fields:

$('.view-id-xxx .item-list').flexslider({
  animation: "slide",
  itemWidth: 200,
  selector: 'ul li',
  maxItems: 3,
  animationLoop: true
});

Would it be possible to include this feature?

v2 can run without images. Just have to adjust some css on the slide elements (I.e. give them a max-width)