Add an option "Images per slide" [#1371922]

Views Slideshow allows to choose the number of "Items per slide" as show in the attaches picture.
It would be very cool to allow the same kind of option in Field Slideshow.

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Comments

Comment #1

joostvdl commented 26 October 2012 at 10:47

any update?

Comment #2

idflood commented 27 October 2012 at 14:39

Hm, I'm not sure about adding this feature. There is already an issue which should help solve this problem I think:
#1634412: Rendering entire entity

So with this, entityreference and inline_entity_form it should become easy to have multiple images, textes and any combinations by slides. I understand that the option "items per slide" would makes some sites easier to setup, but I would like to keep the field_slideshow not too much feature heavy.

On a side note, I've started to work on a possible 2.x version of the module which rely a lot on hooks and would be much more pluggable. There is still a lot of work but I have good hopes that this would allow to have many little submodules to add this kind of specific feature.

By the way, I'm still open to add this feature to the 1.x branch if the entityreference issue is not enough or if you have good arguments : )

Comment #3

j4 commented 24 January 2013 at 14:41

Hi, I would also love this feature of deciding the number of slides to be visible, which then allows us to create a carousel kind of effect without having to use the carousel pager as I needed the thumbnails displayed and the thumbnails to open a colorbox slideshow...I did try to read the above mentioned issue but am sorry am not able to see how to utilize that to get to my interest in specifying number of slides..could you give me some direction in that? Thank you so much for this wonderful module!

Jaya

Comment #4

idflood commented 24 January 2013 at 14:48

Title:

Add and option "Images per slide"

» Add an option "Images per slide"

Actually this should be easier: #1509914: Support for multiple images inside field collections

With this, you would have to create a new field collection and add as many images fields you like into it.

Comment #5

j4 commented 25 January 2013 at 06:47

Hi idflood,

Thank you for replying...but i have the multiple images in one field (with mulitple upload enabled), so am unable to use field collection here. Hope i am not confusing the issue more!

I have one image field with multiple upload. So when the user upload say 5 images in this field, the display should be a carousel of the 5 thumbnails. Clicking any of the thumbnails should start open the colorbox overlay, from where the whole slideshow can be viewed. The reason i wanted to have multiple images per slide, was because that way, i can simulate the carousel by using the previous, next arrows (pager) and have three thumbnails show up in the slideshow area. BY connecting the thumbnails to colorbox, i am able to have the colorbox functionality also.

Thank you once again!
Jaya