Multiple items displayed...

Displaying multiple items won't be in the 1.0 release. It's a good idea and might come in later releases.

I understand your need and have built multi-item rotations before. Before I look into that I want to make the basics feature complete and solid. This would have to come in a later version.

I've modified the views-view-rotator.tpl.php to obtain these effect (very useful)

<ul>
<div class="item-list views-rotator <?php print $views_rotator_id ?> clear-block">
  <div id="<?php print $views_rotator_id ?>">
	<?php $i = 0; $step = 3; $nitems = count($rows); $npages = $nitems/$step;?>
	<?php for ($pages = 0; $pages < $npages; $pages++): ?>
	<div class="views-rotator-item"<?php if (theme('views_rotator_display_item', $views_rotator_id)) print ' style="display: none;"' ?>>
		<?php for ($items = 0; $items < $step; $items++): ?>
		<?php $row = $npages>1?$rows[$i%$nitems]:$rows[$i]; $i++; ?>
		<li><?php print $row ?></li>
		<?php endfor; ?>
	</div>
	<?php endfor; ?>	
  </div>
</div>
</ul>

Note the variable $step, it is the number of items in each view.

If there is a cycle (more than 0 transitions), in the last transition may "lose" or show empty elements (for example, if $step is 3 and there is 4 total items, the last view only shows 1). I've solved this with the $i%$nitems (it shows the first elements again). I think it is better visual.

You must think that the javascript that do the cycle effect no knows about items, it only understand the html code inside "div class=views-rotator" . I only expanded the code inside to include more than 1 $row.

You can erase the "ul" and "li" if don't want html lists.

Thanks for this great and necessary module.

@msoler75 - thanks a lot, it works fine :]

Szy.

Is it possible to do this trick using grouping field - show one group at a time? At the moment in rotate style options there is no grouping field option at all.