Views Rotator Module

This is yummy!

Man that is a cool module. Thanks for sharing.

That was awesome. Props to both Bob and Matt. I was wondering if it would be possible to use views rotator to display four pictures simultaneously and then shift each picture left or right. So, the picture in spot #1 would disappear. The picture in spot to #2 shifts to spot #1. The picture in spot #3 shifts to spot #2. And spot #4 gets a new picture. I was also wondering how the module chooses the next picture? Is it done sequentially or can it be random? Thanks for the great work.

WOW! Thank You!

Kwang: I think you are looking for something like the views carousel module (not maintained and the maintainer has not returned my emails). This uses the jQuery jCarousel plugin. That would be another great module to have. Views Rotator isn't really designed to do that. Different concept for the direction to go.

Great module - thanks so much, Bob (& Matt). I'll start playing with this initially in D5 and later in D6. Looks like a great module which will allow (sufficiently trained) users to do some great stuff on their own, without having to resort to accessing the backend code for transition timings etc.

Is it possible to make drop down navigation menu in drupal ? If so can you show us how to make a drop down navigation menu use views2 or another way. Thanks you and God Bless Christopher Williams

@Christoper For the dropdown navigation solution that most Drupal folks are using these days, check out the Nice Menus module. It will allow you to configure drop down menus pretty easily.

Hi - I fell upon this page while looking for a way to reproduce the "Digg Spy" effect (http://digg.com/spy) using Views on Drupal - do you think it would be possible to create this effect using the Views Rotator Module? Thanks :)

Hey Ari... Digg Spy is using AJAX functionality (or something similar) to constantly query the database for new content (if I'm seeing it correctly). Views Rotator won't be able to do this, not because of the module itself, but because, to my knowledge, of the way Views works. I don't believe Views can do AJAX calls to populate it's queries. Maybe it can (someone correct me if I'm wrong), but since it can't do that, and this is a Views plugin module, that's where the limitation lies. Also, something like Digg Spy isn't really 'rotating' content, its simply adding new content to a table. Views Rotator truly is rotating content, showing one result at a time, so it wouldn't really be the proper tool to accomplish something like this. At this point, you could probably do this with some simple custom jquery and a table display of content.

Bob & Matt. Any suggestion for making the rotator link to a node or url? I was thinking of making a link field, but I'm not too sure on how to wrap the image. Could I create like a node-homepagerotator.tpl.php file and change it there?

First may I thank you for taking to the time to prepare these podcasts, Drupal can be rather overwhelming for a novice such as I and your podcasts provide a good deal of insight. And thank you too for commissioning the module!

My question. How do you centre a views rotator block in a region? Following your podcast I've created a views rotator block and placed it in one of the regions of the theme Im using (the “header blocks region of the theme pixture_reloaded). It works very nicely indeed, the problem is though that under Firefox, Safri, Chrome etc the block isnt centered in the middle of the region, but irksomely it is under IE6/7.

If you take a look at my sandbox website you can see the problem Im having and there's a little more detailed info here, is there something obvious Im doing wrong?

Again thankyou!

@kyle: There's a couple different ways you could link the image. You'd need to setup your node type so it had the image upload and another CCK field for entering the link...

First, you if you output that image's node as a teaser (rather than a list) then you could just theme the teaser so that the image was wrapped in the link you need. This works, but isn't the best since loading a node takes more processing...Instead, i recommend that you:
Theme the view. Views theming isn't that tough and is intended for theming lists that it outputs. You'd theme this view output so that one of the fields (a link) is just a wrapper around the image in the list...pretty straight forward views theming

Either way, this basically has to be done in theming...there's no way to do it in the Views GUI.

@Piers Centering the block in the region is purely CSS work (doesn't really have anything to do wtih the rotator itself). It would work the same for any block you're trying to center (unless I haven't thought thru it enough...) Basically, on the block you'd set the width and do a: #block-name {margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;} in your CSS to center that block. That should work just fine unless there's something else I'm missing. Let me know if there's a complication with that.

Thank you! Manually adusting the size of the header block region into which the block is placed worked, problem solved. Though Im curious as to what was causing the problem. Poking at it with Firebug the position of each cell that makes up a rotating block is wrapped in the following:

div class="views-rotator-item" style="position: absolute; top: 0pt; left: 0pt; z-index: 2; opacity: 0; display: none;"

If I edited out that top left positioning in Firebug it appears centred. Where is that css comming from?.

Thanks.

That style info is generated by the javascript and needed the module for other stuff, but as suggested by defining a width and auto magins for the specific rotator block I've been able to center it in the region without resorting to messing about with the width of the region itself. Again thanks, and thank you for the podcasts!

cool man. that's what I was looking for... thx a lot!

Hi Bob, how did you get the IMCE field on the CCK content? I have IMCE installed, but I could not figure out how to get the field there. Thanks!

I figured this one out, I had to install the IMCE image module Thanks

Hi Bob, I am trying to rotate a few images inside a folder as files and not a nodes, will this work? Thanks for helping!

My imagas are rotating properly, but are overlapping the text on the page. Any idea why? I followed this tutorial carefully. Thanks - Mike

@Miguel: Yes, you should be able to rotate anything that views can spit out...this isn't just for images! @Mike: Yes, if it's overlapping, you'll need to do some CSS work. I've had this issue and basically had to mess with the CSS, find the problem, and add enough margin/padding to make sure it's not overlapping anything else. Good luck!

Wow, this is just what I was looking for; all the other rotator modules didn't quite fit the bill, but this one works perfectly, and I am in the process of incorporating it into my college's newspaper web site to rotate through recent headlines. Works like a charm.

Hi, This looks like exactly what we need. Unfortunately, after installing the module and following the setup instructions, I'm finding each of the images and text that are supposed to be rotating are actually just displaying like a list down the page behind all the other content. What could be causing this? http://amandas.convoy.aresdirect.com:9001/?q=index

@Gerard: First, check to make sure javascript is enabled and working on the browser you're using. If not, it may not display correctly. Second, double check that you've chosen "Views Rotator" as the style for your view. It sounds like you may have just chosen 'List' or something else. If that's not the case, double check all your settings again...for some reason it sounds like the rotator isn't kicking in in Views.

Does this support more than just images? I am wondering if I can use this for digital signage in our church lobby? Thanks Rich

Hey Rich... Absolutely...this module will rotate anything that Views can spit out.

I had the same problem as @Miguel about being unable to get the 'Content' group to appear as a Views field. Though I would like to know what in the IMCE module makes itself available to Views.

I am about to pull my hair out. I love this module and it does exactly what I want (rotate photos in a block). However, only user with the Admin privileges can actually see the images. I have scoured my permissions page ticking anything that I think might affect this, but no joy. Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks jason

I am having the same problem as Jason here. I can see the rotator when I am logged in as admin but when I log in as any of my other test roles I cannot see it. I will head over to drupal.org and report it there. Thanks for all of the hard work Bob et al.

What you use to define a "content top" region?

@Jason Make sure that you set the permissions for all visitors to see the content type contained in the view. In my case, I never set the permission for users to see anything uploaded via the Upload module. Hope this helps!

Having same problem as Jason, i.e., the rotator sets up fine, admin can see it, no one else. I've added it to a single page's (home page) content block. Once I've logged out, only the page name is displayed. Have run through the permissions & access rules mazes, user definitions, system level permissions settings, no joy. All users are set to be able to see all content, all views. Any other suggestions? Thanks!

Alessandro: regions in drupal 6 are defined in your theme's .info file Sam: some suggestions...first, try a different theme to make sure nothing in your theme is interfering. If it works in Garland, it's a theme issue. Second, try turning off any permissions modules (including any taxonomy access, CCK permissions, or anything else)...this is most likely the issue. No one else is having these issues, so it must be something specific to your setup. Finally, take the version of the module you're using (should be the latest) and install it on a CLEAN site (download D6, install just this module and use it) and confirm that it's working. That will tell you whether it's an issue in the module or a setup problem on your site.

Thank you for your efforts to put this together. It took me a few hours to muddle my way through it, but I just got it up and running!

Some time ago I stumbled over that screencast here http://www.drupaltherapy.com/node/70 which pretty much explains the same thing, namly presenting a view via a slideshow but with the views slideshow module. when I saw the podcast about your rotator module I didn't figured out the differences :( could you give a few examples when rotator is to be prefered over slideshow? thanks, Gilbert!

Fantastic post. Bookmarked this site and emailed it to a few friends, your post was that great, keep it up.

Evidently the ability to view this as an anonymous user is an issue. I've tried the suggestions above, but still can't get the rotator to display to anyone but the admin. Did anyone ever come up with a solution to this? I've checked the permissions and added the ability to view uploaded files to anonymous users, and as Sam said above, I've poured over the permissions trying to come up with the right combination, but no luck. Can anyone who has been able to overcome this post their solution? It would be MUCH appreciated!

This looks nice. Easy to set up. But I didn't see an option to set the rotator to stop rotating after x number. Is that possible? Or could that be added in a new release?

Hi, first of all, thank you for creating views_rotator. It's an awesome little module and is nicely rotating articles in the content-top-right on my front page. I have a question for you, though: How do you make sure the rotator view actually adopts the style of the block it's in? I have styled content-top-right to be a white box with blue border, but the rotator view isn't showing up inside that block. It's showing up /below/ it. What can I do to make sure the article sits inside the content-top-right block -- instead of below it?

I would like to rotate a node title and an image field. Is there a way to move the text field on top of the image ?

Cool plugin. Thanks for sharing

Thanks a lot bob, you are such a nice guy, that you have supported me in such a way that your videos helped me a lot, i was in a position to quit my job and u have saved me ... thanks a lot i wish u to continue the tuorials on the advanced topics. thanks a lot

Hello everyone, I fixed this issue by going to the Permissions section and allowing anonymous and authenticated users to view the "view field_body_content". You can find this under the "CONTENT_PERMISSIONS_MODULE" permissions section. I hope that helps. Keep up the excellent work MustardSeedMedia.

Never knew you could do this using views. Seems I found a great solution for a news feed rotator on my frontpage. Great stuff Bob, keep it up!

Very cool. Thanks a ton. Looking forward to seeing what you have in store next.

nice plugin, thank you for sharing to all of us

Your contributions are greatly appreciated.

This is awesome if your site is filled with media. I just love Drupal now. And thanks to these cool modules, my site's gonna look better and better.

Excellent post thank you very much for taking the time to share with those who are starting on the subject. Greetings

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