Transition Technology: Ticket #321: Automate homepage images and text with module - TRAC

laura — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 18:42:30 GMT

It's a cck type not a module as such. Will liaise with Jim whats needed or can do.

status changed

jim — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 17:20:00 GMT

There are 4 parts to this:

a new content type that allows titles, blurbs and images to be entered.
a new view that selects these nodes - only published ones to allow easy filtering
the views_slideshow module and jquery.cycle library that allows nice slideshow/fades/whatevers based on a view.
(possibly) some CSS wrangling to make it look right.

I've used the above several times, most recently on my 'D7 quickie' site http://www.demolitionandsalvage.co.uk/

The needed parts are in now in SVN.

ed — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 14:30:40 GMT

deadline 24/10

jim — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 13:14:49 GMT

New CT "Slideshow frame" added, representing one single frame of the slideshow.
Fields: Title, Blurb (short plain text), Link, Image
Perms: admins & editors can create, publish and edit slideshow frames.
Image preset set so images will be auto-sized/cropped to 600x300, unless already that size -- in other words, the system will handle too big images and reject too small ones. If editors want control over the crop, they need to do that before uploading it.
New "Homepage slideshow" nodequeue added to allow selection and ordering of slides, currently a max of 7 is set.
Slideshow view added, classes re-used to style it up.

Done as far as I can see...