I have a slideshow, and I wanted to link individual slides to specific content. I went in to the content type to modify the display to allow a link. I saved that - expecting there would be a field for a URL in the edit form, but there wasn't. There WAS a link, but only to the page the slideshow is part of..... only a link to the page you are already at. Am I doing something wrong here??? Or does the link only really become useful for linking teaser / preview to what is essentially a page with exactly the same content???

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jdanthinne commented

The "Link to content" option is exactly the same as the one for the normal Image formatter. This will always link to the node containing the slideshow, and not to other nodes.
An example of use could be for products nodes : the node contains multiple images of the product and on a catalog page, you see the slideshows and if you click it, you go to the product page.

If you want custom links associated with individual images, you could use http://drupal.org/project/linkimagefield. It is not ported to D7 yet, but it would be a great time to do it btw. When a D7 version is there, I could make it work with the slideshow.

Or for the use I understand you want, you should use Views slideshow instead, and not Field slideshow. This way, you would have individual image linked to individual nodes.

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tharpa.osang commented

I pretty much figured that out.... I was just hoping, since I really like having all the slideshow images editable on one page. I will take a look at linkimagefield!

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jdanthinne commented
Status: Active » Closed (works as designed)
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kvoltz commented

Hi Everyone, It looks like linkimagefield has been ported to D7 (in dev). What would be involved with getting the linkimagefield formatter to play nice with Field Slideshow?

Thanks for the fantastic module.