Blank slides when multiple items per slide are used in single frame slideshow [#1198328]

I was wondering if I'm doing something wrong. Currently I have a views slideshow setup to display 3 items and filtering by a specific node type called 'slider'. Each 'slider' node houses an image with some text.

My problem is if there is only 5 'slider' nodes the slideshow will display the first three slides as expected and then the remaining 2 slides with a blank spot (since it's grouping by three). This makes sense to me because I imagine it's expecting a third slide but there is none available to put there.

I have tried using field and node for the row style. Have also tried filtering the view by the field(s) used by the 'slider' content type to no avail (which is the fix I kept finding when searching issue queue).

Ideally I would like for there to not be a blank slide and for it to house content possibly from previously displayed slides, really just no blank slides though. One solution that occurred to me was to tell the client to only add 'slider' nodes in multiples of three but it does seem like to great of a solution. I apologize if this topic has been previously discussed/fixed. I did search the issue queue and google but only found the suggestion to filter by fields. I know nobody wants to answer the same thing multiple times so please go easy on me if that is the case :)

Thanks a bunch,
Chris

Comments

Comment #1

sulav CreditAttribution: sulav commented 23 June 2011 at 21:56

Chris,

What do you mean by 'its grouping by 3'? It would be helpful if you could screenshot your views If each your nodes have 1 image, i think it would be appropriate to use the row style to be node.

magicman_

Comment #2

ionz149 CreditAttribution: ionz149 commented 23 June 2011 at 22:09

Sorry I meant that in the slideshow settings (while editing the view) I have entered 3 as the number of "items per slide" in the slideshow. It is usually 1.

Each node does use only 1 image. So I thought node row style would be okay too.

Would you need a screen shot of the entire view or just of the slideshow settings?

Thanks for assisting.

-Chris

Comment #3

sulav CreditAttribution: sulav commented 23 June 2011 at 23:33

Chris,

Entering 3 in the items per slide will group your entire list of content type into groups of 3 each, if you have 4 nodes, it will show the first 3 as the first one and the last 1 separately as the second one.

Custom programming is required for this one.

http://drupal.org/node/934094

magicman_

Comment #4

sulav CreditAttribution: sulav commented 23 June 2011 at 23:36

Component:	Miscellaneous	» SingleFrame
Status:	Active	» Closed (won't fix)

Comment #5

ionz149 CreditAttribution: ionz149 commented 23 June 2011 at 23:48

Awesome, so for now increments of three is the way to go.

Thanks so much for the swift response

Comment #6

msbjhandeer CreditAttribution: msbjhandeer commented 17 August 2011 at 23:40

hi,when we are having 3 items per slide, they are displayed vertically one after another. can we set these items horizontally, next to each other on each slide.help will be appreciated.

Comment #7

lizabu002 CreditAttribution: lizabu002 commented 13 November 2012 at 16:15

Title:	Blank slides when multiple items per slide are used in single frame slideshow	» So close I can almost tast it...
Category:	support	» task

@msbjhandeer - did you ever figure that out? I am so close to getting what I need it to do, but for some reason I can't get those images to display in-line, or float left. feel like i've tried everything. Help!