I'm impressed with this module. It took me a while to understand it, but the implementation now seems very logical and powerful. My thanks to the developer.

I'm now trying to make my slideshow images clickable, but I can't figure out how to do it. I have a set of pages and images -- Page1 & Image1, Page2 & Image2, etc. On my home page, I want a slideshow of the images (full size), and when someone clicks on an image I want to display the associated page.

I've tried a couple of things:
1) I found that I can make images clickable by using the field "Image: Display Image" and the handler "Image with link", but when I do that the destination for each click is the image, not the page.
2) I also tried attaching the images to the pages, then using the field "Image Attach: Display Image" and the handler "Image to link with attaching node". When I do that, however, the slideshow doesn't display the image; it displays a blank slide instead.

Am I doing something wrong? Or is clickable slides a feature that Views Slideshow doesn't support yet?

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planetgauntlet commented

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scafmac commented

I've only been playing with this module for a little bit, but I've had it set up to do what you want I believe. My experience is that it depends on the configuration.

Using Single Frame Configuration:

You have two options. I want it configured so that a click on an image in the slideshow links to the node. Clicking on the image on the node displays the full size image. I'm using the latest cck, views, imagefield, and imagecache 2.x. If you just want to click to the node - use the second option.

  1. Configure your content type's Display fields -> Full to " as link to image". If desired, do something similar for the teasers. If ...link to image isn't an option, then I think you need to upgrade to imagecache to 2.x.
  2. On your view configuration, select a View Type -> Slideshow List.
  3. In the Fields fieldset, select the image and any other fields you want in the slideshow - I include the title which is a caption. Make each of them links to the node with the Option -> <imagecache preset> as link to node

That's it.

The second option differs only a little - change to Display fields -> Full <imagecache preset> as link to node. Then on the view, switch to View Type -> Slideshow Full Nodes. And you can ignore the fields part obviously. I don't like this one as much because once they're on the full node, they can still click the image which just reloads the page.

Using Thumbnail hover Configuration:

This setting has been a little stranger for me to use. The main problem is that you no longer really have the View type -> Slideshow List choice any more. Well you do, but the View type actually controls the list of images (thumbnails in my case) not the slideshow. The type of slideshow is actually controlled by the Global hover breakout setting which offers full nodes or teasers, no list.

So in that situation, you should be able to control whether the image in the slideshow links to the node by setting the Display fields -> Full <imagecache preset> as link to node for the full node or teaser, which ever you are going to use.

I've tested all of those on my test site and found they all work.

Delta Bridges’s picture

Delta Bridges commented

You can also use the advertisement module along with this one: you can then have a slideshow of images that are linked to nodes :)
Hope this helps!
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redndahead commented
Status: Active » Fixed

views 2 handles this nicely

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

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