Crazy stuff views slideshow help [#606386]

Title not making sense but what I'm going through with this doesn't either so I'll try to be as rational as possible!

I create a block view with the following settings:
Fields: Title, Body trimmed to 100 maximum characters
Filters: Type - story, Published - Yes, Taxonomy Term: Top stories
Style: Slideshow, Mode - SingleFrame,
Tow Style: Fields

What I get then varies and changes every time I refresh my page or empty my cache.
One time I might get a slideshow with my top story as I would normally expect while the next time I might get a list of all my top stories.

Any thoughts on that would be highly appreciated

Comments

Comment #1

redndahead CreditAttribution: redndahead commented 17 October 2009 at 20:46

This seems like it's an issue with your view. Turn off the slideshow style and see if you get the same results with just the unformatted style. If so then something is not setup correctly in your view.

Comment #2

redndahead CreditAttribution: redndahead commented 14 November 2009 at 20:02

Status:

Active

» Fixed

marking as fixed.

Comment #3

Anonymous (not verified) CreditAttribution: Anonymous commented 21 November 2009 at 18:21

Status:

Fixed

» Active

I have the exact same issue. I would like to know how you fixed it!

I have been trying to setup my view in other ways, but still the behaviour remains: sometimes a nice slideshow, but after logging out: a list of all images.

Thanks for your help!

Comment #4

redndahead CreditAttribution: redndahead commented 21 November 2009 at 18:30

It's more than likely either a caching issue or a filter issue in your view. All views_slideshow does is go through the list of items in the order that views presents it. So if the order seems random it's because either views is outputting them in a random order or you have random set in the views_slideshow settings.

Comment #5

Anonymous (not verified) CreditAttribution: Anonymous commented 21 November 2009 at 18:42

The strange thing is: the slideshow appears OK when accessing the site -logged out-, then logging in (still OK), but when logging out again, it goes to a list of images instead of a one-frame slideshow...

I tried disabling random in the slideshow settings (alltough I wanted that behaviour) but no go..

Oh, and access is set to unrestricted

Comment #6

redndahead CreditAttribution: redndahead commented 21 November 2009 at 19:02

Possibly you have caching turned on. We have issues with certain kinds of caching turned on. See if the solutions suggested here helps #404894: Block caching prevents the javascript from always being loaded

Comment #7

Anonymous (not verified) CreditAttribution: Anonymous commented 21 November 2009 at 19:22

Jee, that all seems a bit over my head at the moment. I guess I'll publish my beta-site without that slideshow block, and try to get it to work later, when I have the energy :)

In fact, it does work, only that odd behaviour should get out.

Thanks for your help!