I have followed the instructions in this post [ http://ddblock.myalbums.biz/node/851 ] to link the "Read More" button to an external URL. I would also like to link the pager item to an external URL instead of to its own slide. Here is a description:

So if I have a dblock with four slides:
Topic A
Topic B
Topic C
Topic D

Right now if I know I want to read more on Topic D, I have to either wait for the topic D slide to come around and then click the "Read More," or I have to click the Topic D Pager Item, which will bring up the Topic D slide, upon which I can click the read more button.

What I want is for the Topic D Pager Item to also link to the external URL of the topic D slide, rather than linking to the topic D slide itself.

By the way, I believe I'm using the custom theme highlight-50I if it matters.

Does this make sense? How would I do this?

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TonyV’s picture

TonyV commented

I have posted this brief video to describe what I am hoping to accomplish. Thanks for any help.

http://www.promethius.com/pcu/ddblock/ddblock.html

ppblaauw’s picture

ppblaauw commented
Status: Active » Postponed (maintainer needs more info)

In short you would need to adjust the link for the pager.

In the pager preprocess function add the pager_link variable:

// add pager_link variable
if (isset($result->node_data_field_pager_item_text_field_url_value)) {
  $pager_items[$key1]['pager_link'] =  check_plain($result->node_data_field_pager_item_text_field_url_value);
}

In the pager-content.tpl.php file

adjust the line:

<a href="#" title="navigate to topic" class="pager-link"><?php print $pager_item['image']; ?><?php print   $pager_item['text']; ?></a>

To

<a href="<?php print $pager_item['pager_link']; ?>" title="navigate to topic" class="pager"><?php print $pager_item['image']; ?><?php print $pager_item['text']; ?></a>

Change the href and change the pager class (the cycle plugin uses class="pager-link")

Hope this helps you further, please let me know.

TonyV’s picture

TonyV commented

Thanks very much for the feedback. I'll try implementing this shortly and report back.

blingximus’s picture

blingximus commented
Priority: Normal » Major

Hi, I know this is an old issue but I have use for this feature.

I tried the above mentioned code but I failed to see any change on my site.

I would love to have some assistance with this. I am in need of urgent help.

Thanks

Craig

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shippin commented
Status: Postponed (maintainer needs more info) » Active

Hello,
I'm as well trying to implement this fix to make pager-text linkable.

I didn't understand how do I set up a custom link for each news item after applying the changes to the code you suggested above?

ppblaauw’s picture

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

#5
Download and enable the link module: http://drupal.org/project/link
Add a field of type link to the content type for the slideshow.
Add the field to the view for the slideshow.

Hope this helps you further, please let me know.