I am making a used car site, and every car that is added has a imagefield called field_thumbnail, now the problem...
I need Ddblock to display all those thumbnails for every node in that content type... So I need Ddblock to display all the thumbnails for the specific content type...
It needs to do this automatically, so if i add a used car, i need the block to add the new contents thumbnail to the slideshow....
And also if possible, when clicking the thumbnail it needs to open the node that has that thumbnail.

Any help would be very appreciated!!!

Best regards, Milanche

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Milanche commented
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ppblaauw commented
Priority: Critical » Normal
Status: Active » Postponed (maintainer needs more info)

This is standard functionality of the ddblock module, although having a lot of slides in your slideshow would slow down the building up of the slides. Normally the slideshow can be used for upto 10-15 slides (When your images are optimized in size).

You can follow the advanced slideshow tutorial or advanced video tutorial to install and configure the ddblock module.

Hope this helps you further, please let me know.

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Milanche commented

Is there a way, to do it with php code? The simplest way would be to create a node that generates the field_thumbnail thumbnails of all added nodes... Can this be done?

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ppblaauw commented

Don't know if I understand your requirements now.

Does a node for a car have one image or more images?

Do you want to create a slide for one image of a node or more images in the nodes?

E.g. when using more images in one node are possible, should there be a slide for each of these thumbnails which each go to the same node?

Please explain more what you want to accomplish.

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Milanche commented

Basicaly i have a modified content type with multiple fields... One of those fields is field_thumbnail, and now i need DDblock to display all those field_thumbnail fields of all the nodes of that content type... I imagine it would be the easiest if DDblock just displayed a node, but i dont know how that node would dynamicaly contain all those fields and update them as soon as a new node is added...

Thank you so much!

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ppblaauw commented

You can follow the advanced ddblock tutorial, all thumbnails will be made into slides in the slideshow when you don't set group fields.

Hope this helps you further, please let me know.

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Title: Need help with a custom block » Need help with a custom block (Fixed)
Status: Postponed (maintainer needs more info) » Fixed

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