Wondering if there are any thoughts as to include a module to create a slideshow?

As far as I can tell there would be two suitable candidates:

Just want to make sure what the plans are before I start implementing a solution myself.

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blacklabel_tom’s picture

I can't speak for the contributers, but I would imagine this would be out of scope for commons.

If you want to add a slideshow to your site the modules you've mentioned will do the trick.

I can also recommend the jcarousel module (http://drupal.org/project/jcarousel).

If that answers your question can you close the issue please.

Cheers

Tom

Gerben Zaagsma’s picture

I see you are doing some cleaning in the issue queue today. I have already implemented Nivo slider. However, I left this open since it was unanswered by the developers and for a distro like commons implementing a specific solution to me seems quite imaginable.

blacklabel_tom’s picture

I thought I would try and do my bit, we will leave this open untill a developer responds then.

Cheers

Tom

autolyst’s picture

I added a yes / no checkbox to my test site and was able to push a node into a slideshow using YoxView as well. I hid the field from the author role and was planning on creating a rule to switch the checkbox based on Radioactivity. My issue now is determining a common image machine name to add to certain nodes for the teaser image in the slideshow, this way trending content or popular nodes could get promoted into the slideshow. If images werent added to the group or event system I will simply promote articles or other content for slideshow inclusion. All in all I am waiting to see what happens on the developer response.

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I think the inclusion of slideshow view for featured content in OG homepage isn't out of scope and can be a good solution to prevent that recent content buried important content.

It can be implemented under widget content filter, showing only featured content of active tab (.i.e Posts o Questions tab)

slider featured content OG