I have installed and configured the advanced ddblock slideshow as per the tutorial video but the slideshow is not appearing at all only the title (if I chane the time from to a title name). I have placed the block to the left sidebar but there is nothing but a horizontal line which states for that block.

The template.php file is attached.
Here is the code which appears on the webpage:

*

array (
'delta' => '2',
'output_type' => 'view_fields',
'pager' => 'custom-pager',
'pager_container' => NULL,
'pager_event' => NULL,
'pager_height' => 63,
'pager_width' => 195,
'imgcache_pager_item' => '',
'pager_position' => 'bottom',
'template' => 'custom',
'custom_template' => 'gradient-blue30p',
'view_name' => 'news_items',
)

*

stdClass::__set_state(array(
'nid' => '1',
'node_title' => 'News item 1',
'node_language' => 'en',
'node_data_field_pager_item_text_field_pager_item_text_value' => 'News item pager 1',
'node_type' => 'ddblock_news_item',
'node_vid' => '1',
'node_data_field_pager_item_text_field_slide_text_value' => 'News item slide 1',
'node_data_field_pager_item_text_field_image_fid' => '1',
'node_data_field_pager_item_text_field_image_list' => '1',
'node_data_field_pager_item_text_field_image_data' => 'a:3:{s:11:"description";s:0:"";s:3:"alt";s:0:"";s:5:"title";s:0:"";}',
'node_revisions_body' => 'News item 1 News item 1 News item 1 News item 1',
'node_revisions_format' => '1',
'node_created' => '1258052246',
))

*

array (
'delta' => '2',
'output_type' => 'view_fields',
'pager' => 'custom-pager',
'pager_container' => NULL,
'pager_event' => NULL,
'pager_height' => 63,
'pager_width' => 195,
'imgcache_pager_item' => '',
'pager_position' => 'bottom',
'template' => 'custom',
'custom_template' => 'gradient-blue30p',
'view_name' => 'news_items',
)

*

stdClass::__set_state(array(
'nid' => '1',
'node_title' => 'News item 1',
'node_language' => 'en',
'node_data_field_pager_item_text_field_pager_item_text_value' => 'News item pager 1',
'node_type' => 'ddblock_news_item',
'node_vid' => '1',
'node_data_field_pager_item_text_field_slide_text_value' => 'News item slide 1',
'node_data_field_pager_item_text_field_image_fid' => '1',
'node_data_field_pager_item_text_field_image_list' => '1',
'node_data_field_pager_item_text_field_image_data' => 'a:3:{s:11:"description";s:0:"";s:3:"alt";s:0:"";s:5:"title";s:0:"";}',
'node_revisions_body' => 'News item 1 News item 1 News item 1 News item 1',
'node_revisions_format' => '1',
'node_created' => '1258052246',
))

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#1 template.php__1_19.txt5.71 KBppblaauw
template.php_.txt9.34 KBkarinatoonekurg

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ppblaauw commented
Status: Active » Postponed (maintainer needs more info)
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new template.php__1_19.txt5.71 KB

Do you have at least 2 nodes?

The template.php view and field-names look ok to me, I remove the second if statements in both preprocess functions, did you add them? (file attached)

Do you have a link to the Internet site?

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karinatoonekurg commented

I have uploaded the new template.php file which has been sent but the situation is the same.

Yes, I have two nodes - News item 1 and News item 2 (both contain picture and text).

The link: http://csrway.com/

The advanced slideshow is expected to be at the leften sidebar (where the title ddblock - news item slideshow is displayed).

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ppblaauw commented

When your site is still in development can you leave the drupal_set_message debug lines in the preprocess functions uncommented so I can have a look.

Further, I don't see a CSS file for one of the ddblock themes.
Can you use one of the upright ddblock themes.

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

I have got it fixed. The problem was that I didnt download the custom ddblock themes (gradeint-blue30p etc.). I only had downloaded and configured upright10-50.

Thanks for guiding me to this direction.

However, I must say that tutorial video is not accurate. In the video it shows how to set up the ddblock slideshow with a custom theme (gradient-blue30p) but it doesnt guide to download the file gradient-blue30p.zip. So it misguides and at the end things dont work.

Anyway, I am happy it works for me now :) Thanks again.

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ppblaauw commented

Thank you for your explanation.

We realize now we made a mistake by using one of the other themes as an example in the video tutorial, which makes it less conform the written tutorial and what to download, but at the time of creating the video we though it would be nice for users also to see another ddblock theme layout work.

Learning all the time.

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NelsonEC commented

Sorry, I seem to have a similar problem. Where can I actually download those themes? I only find examples...

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airen2011 commented
Status: Fixed » Postponed (maintainer needs more info)

#6

Free ddblock themes can be downloaded from http://ddblock.myalbums.biz/download

At http://ddblock.myalbums.biz you can see snapshot images of free and commercial themes.

The commercial themes can be purchased from http://themes.myalbums.biz

Working examples of the upright10-50 and some other free ddblock themes can be found at: http://themes.myalbums.biz/bookpath/examples

Hope this helps you further, please let me know.

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

I should have found that by myself, sorry :-) And thank you.
It did not solve my problem, but I found a solution.

Now I got other problems, but I will first try to find something in the issue queue. My actual problem is not connected to this one.

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

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