Support for view arguments and multiple views?

Hi Andy,

Thanks for your supportive words.
Answers to the above questions:
1. It is possible to use arguments within the ajax_slideshow view. In general setting the filtering (including arguments) and sorting of the ajax_slideshow view is supported.
2. Unfortunately at this point multiplicity of view is not supported. If you'd like to contribute this code, you're most welcome!

Thanks and enjoy the module.
Udi.

Make sure you did not change the row style or *any other* setting other then the argument / filter / sort. To ensure that there are no changes to the original view, revert the view to its default state and make the changes only to the argument area - do you get the right results?
Another option - I'd ignore the views preview results. I'd copy the view to a temporary view with a different name and check the actual results outside of the slideshow context (i.e. nodes presented as a plain list).

AndyF

I tried it myself and found out that I am so wrong!! I am terribly sorry for misleading you - I overlooked the fact that the view is triggered from within the code (not a page). currently the code does not pass the arguments portion of the URL into the view hence no arguments-based filtering takes place.

Now, since I felt so bad about you wasting your time due to my incompetent answer, I worked out a quick solution for this (sorry for not providing a patch).

In ajax_slideshow.module at line 211 (assuming you use V2.x) you will find the following line:

$tabs_view = views_embed_view('ajax_slideshow_view', 'default');

Please *replace* this line with the following code:

$arguments = explode('/', $_GET['q']);
array_shift($arguments);
$arguments = (count($arguments)>0)? $arguments : null;
$tabs_view = views_embed_view('ajax_slideshow_view', 'default', $arguments);

The above change is supposed to provide support for passing arguments into an ajax_slideshow which is not positioned as a block.
I will make sure this patch finds its way into the next release of the module.

Please let me know if this worked for you.

Udi.

AndyF,
Cool!
(I'm a bit overwhelmed with customer work load at this point, hence it will take me a while to review and integrate the above but I'll get there.)
Thanks a lot mate.

Added to V6.3.
Supported only for node-based slideshow (see source mode setting)

I clearly see that the code restr

  // Arguments support - contributed by AndyF - http://drupal.org/node/831586 
  $arguments = array();
  if ((!$is_block) && (variable_get('ajax_slideshow_content_source','node_based') == 'node_based')){
    // Pass on the URL arguments to the view. This assumes that the first path
    // argument is the slideshow path, and the other path args are for the view.    
    $arguments = explode('/', $_GET['q']);
    array_shift($arguments);  // Remove slideshow path
  }
  array_unshift($arguments, 'ajax_slideshow_view', 'default');
  $tabs_view = call_user_func_array('views_embed_view', $arguments);

  return theme('ajax_slideshow', $tabs_view);

Could you explained why this restrction? Why not also for views-based slideshow?