Showcase

See Views Slideshow for this functionality.

The module allows a slide show presentation of teasers from a set of categorized nodes into a specified block. The module uses AJAX to return these teasers from the database.

Check out Views Slideshow.

RELEASE HISTORY
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for release history, screenshots, and additional info see:

www.liquidcms.ca/showcase

HOW TO USE THIS MODULE ONCE INSTALLED
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The admin->settings for this module allow the site administrator to set the following parameters:

Block ID - the ID of the block that you want the showcase to display in (defaults to "showcase")
Content Selector - select categories, terms or views to use as content selection type
-- Category - the category used to select content
-- Tax term - the term used to select content
-- View - the view used to select content
Delay - the time delay between slides in the showcase
Start Delay - the delay before the showcase starts to run
Control Enable - whether to enable the showcase control panel
-- Top - the top absolute coordinate of the control panel
-- Left - the left absolute coordinate of the control panel

Although typically Drupal designers think of blocks as going in the left/right borders - a block may be located anywhere. For example the "liquid" theme used at www.LiquidCMS.ca has a block with ID = "block-block-showcase" in the page header (in page.tpl.php).

Example Setup (used on demo site):

* page.tpl.php has a div with ID = block-block-showcase defined
* a category is defined called "showcase"
* various nodes are tagged as belonging to the category "showcase"

The page.tpl.php file has default content ("Services We Provide") in the header DIV to be used for the showcase. This content is displayed every time a refresh or new page is brought up. After Start Delay the showcase module begins retrieving teasers from the nodes which are tagged as belonging to the "showcase" category.

Peter Lindstrom
LiquidCMS - Content Management Solution Experts