By spangaroo on

I used FeedAPI, CCK and Views to create a slideshow of images pulled from a group on Flickr.

I placed this View in the right sidebar of a Flexible Panel. http://www.taipeitechclub.com/ (Slideshow)

The items in this View are filtered like this:

Node: Published Yes
Node: Type = Taiwan Flickr Feed

If I see a particular image that I want to write about, I will edit the "Publishing options" as "Promoted to front page." Then the particular node/image will appear on my home page like a blog post.

However, when I try to filter the View like this:

Node: Published Yes
Node: Type = Taiwan Flickr Feed
Node: Promoted to front page No

...the promoted item still shows up in the Slideshow. (First image starts out as 2 of 10, but users can click back to 1.)

Is there a way to configure the View to ensure that items marked "Promoted to front page" are excluded from the Slideshow? I thought the filter I applied would work but I guess not.

Here's a screenshot of the original view: http://taipeitechclub.com/images/views-tweak.jpg

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gpk commented

Well yes it looks like that should work. Have you tried experimenting without the slideshow field formatter, using Views' Preview pane? Maybe try turning AJAX off? To be sure what's going on you could temporarily add fields such as Node: Title, Node: Promoted to front page etc.

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spangaroo commented

Thanks for the tips gpk. I figured out that it was a problem related AJAX. Well, not an AJAX problem per se, more of a problem with how I had my content type configured.

By default I had set all of my Flickr Feed Items to render as a 73px thumbnail, so even when a Feed Item was promoted to the front of the page as a proper "Node" it still behaved like it was still part of the Slideshow.

To fix it, I just modified the display field in my Custom Feed (FeedAPI & Embedded Image Field) to show up as the Preview Size Image and Original Size Image. (I had them showing up as Lightbox2 elements previously.)

So after a bit of trial and error, it looks like all is good for today. Thanks again for the help.

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gpk commented

Glad to hear you got it working :)

gpk
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