Random slideshow

4 posts by 3 authors in: Forums > CMS Builder
Last Post: October 24, 2013   (RSS)

By CommonSenseDesign - October 22, 2013

I have a site that uses randomly chosen animated GIFs, which were created in Adobe ImageReady: http://www.amgltd.biz/ (on the right hand side, under "Clients we work with"). There are five different animated GIFs with five or six slides (logos) in each; one GIF is chosen at random when the page loads.

Is there a way of creating a similar effect in CMSB? I'm guessing this is what I'd need to do:

1. Create a multi-record section of the cms where the client chooses a number of images/logos to upload.

2. Take the uploaded images/logos and display them as a fading slideshow.

3. Get the page to select one of the records created in #1, and display it on the page.

#1 is easy; how do I do the other parts?

Thanks!

By rconring - October 23, 2013

See this post.  It has most of what you want to do, including the slideshow js files. 

You just need to add a random sort ('orderBy'     => 'RAND()',) the viewer code that gets a random slideshow record from the table.

http://www.interactivetools.com/forum/forum-posts.php?postNum=2218896#post2218896

Ron Conring
Conring Automation Services
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By CommonSenseDesign - October 24, 2013

Sorry, Ron and Damon. I haven't had time to try this yet, but I'll post on here if I get this working for my client. Thanks for your advice.