div empty with Entity View in Views [#2125945]

I'm not sure this is a bug ...

I have FlexSlider 7.x-2.0-alpha3 installed and works great.
I have it on the frontpage (a view) and in some node pages.

Now I'm trying to install it in an "Entity View" which itself is "included" on a node page (via Bundles, and arguments Token etc.). This Entity View is old and has always worked.

I just changed the Formatter for Images in the Entity View to flexslider and selected the options. I save the view. But when the node is rendered everything is fine BUT the images/flexslider are not present(!).

Looking at the page source (i.e. not processed by js in any way) I'm getting:
<div class="views-field views-field-field-images-1"> <div class="field-content"></div> </div>
i.e. the div is empty where the flexslider/images should appear.

I'm not clear whether I need "FlexSlider Views Slideshow". I have "FlexSlider Views Style 7.x-2.0-alpha3" which as I recall was part of the std module install.

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Comment #1

jamescook CreditAttribution: jamescook commented 2 November 2013 at 20:10

To answer my own question:
1. In one case I had a Views/Page with the Page itself setup as a flexslider, not a field in the page. So output no problem.
2. In the other case, I had a node, and output was taken care of by setting the formatter in "Manage Display" for the content type to flexslider.

When I reported this "bug", I thought I had used a field in a view to get a flexslider - but (see 1. above) this wasn't the case. Getting a field to work as a flexslider in a View whether Page or Entity View is not something that I'd done. Thought I had.

I solved my current problem by rendering the images in the node part (flexslider with "Manage Display") and adding all other page contents with the Entity View. i.e. I didn't need a field to render as a flexslider in the end.

To render a field as a flexslider I imagine you would need the FlexSlider Views Slideshow(?)