Slideshow - short
Magnetic field around Saturn
Saturn
Mars Curiosity self portrait
The Slideshow item - short is for use on content pages only.
It's possible to have two or more slideshows on a page.
Give it try
1. Create a hidden section called Slideshow, as a sub-section (child) of the section (page) where the slideshow will live.
2. Create a second hidden sub-section of Slideshow which you have just made, this will 'house' the slideshow item content type.
The graphic below shows the structure. Grey indicates the folder is hidden from the navigation. Full width content page is where the slideshow will appear.
3. Add a Slideshow item - short content type to your second hidden sub-section, (Find out how to add a content type to a section), in this example it is called, slideshow 1 items. You must repeat this step for each slide in your slideshow sequence.
There's a bug in t4 and items cannot be ordered with the up and down arrows. To control the order in which the items appear, they should be named with numeric or alphabetic prefixes thus: a - item description, b - item description etc., OR 1 - item description, 2 - item description etc.
NB: If you require another slideshow on the same page, it's slides would live in a separate sub-section as a child of Slideshow, for example, slideshow 2 items.
4. Fill in the form, as below:
| Field title | What should I do? | Is it compulsory? |
| Name* | Give each item a name e.g. a - item description, b - item description, c - item description etc. | Yes |
| Image* | For a set of short slides images at least 959 x 430 pixels are required | Yes |
| Link Internal | Use the Select link to add an internal link OR | No |
| Link External | Copy and paste URL from external website | No |
| Title | This is the slide title | No |
| Caption* | Description of the image | Yes |
| Display item?* | Defaults to ticked | Yes |
5. Add a Slideshow widget content type to the section (page) where the slideshow will live. A separate Slideshow widget content type would be required for every Slideshow on your page.
6. Fill in the form, as below:
| Field title | What should I do? | Is it compulsory? |
| Name* | Name this Slideshow instance, in this example: Slideshow 1 widget | Yes |
| Slideshow item - banner | Do not select | No |
| Slideshow item - full width landing | Do not select | No |
| Slideshow item - tall | Do not select | No |
| Slideshow item - short | Select this one | Yes |
| Find items* | Tell the widget where the slideshow items live; in this case Slideshow > slideshow 1 items | Yes |
| Display items* | Defaults to ticked | Yes |
7. Click Add & Approve to save
The graphic below shows the Content types listed on the section (page) where the slideshow will appear. Content1 is the General content content type that contains the text you're reading.
