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Posted by garyh on April 9, 2013 at 4:12pm

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Beans & Slideshows

Posted by frankdesign on May 27, 2013 at 5:16pm
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First of all - thanks to Gary and all the team for organising a great Drupal Camp again this year.

Gary, during your presentation you mentioned the module Bean and there was a discussion about using them to create slides for a Slideshow rather than using a Content type. I've been playing with Beans today and I can't see where I can access their content in views to create a FlexSlider slideshow. Am I missing something or is there a separate way to create a FlexSlider slideshow from Beans? Any pointers would be great.

Thanks

Frank

2 options: Multi-value image field or View of type Block

Posted by stella on May 27, 2013 at 7:11pm
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Hi Frank,

I think the idea there is to add a multi-value image field to the Bean. So 1 bean == 1 slideshow, with each image in the multi-value image field being a slide. If you wanted you could then add a field collection to the bean and use that to add other fields to each slide (e.g. link, text, etc).

The other way is to have 1 bean == 1 slide. There I would imagine that you would have to create a View of type "Block" rather than "Content" - you'd need to select that in the very beginning on the add view form, under the 'Show' drop-down. The "Content" item will only give you access to nodes.

Cheers,
Stella

Thanks - I knew it would be

Posted by frankdesign on May 27, 2013 at 8:34pm
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Thanks - I knew it would be something simple. I was trying to update an existing slideshow which was a View that displayed Content! Once I recreated it using a View that displayed Block everything worked fine.

Thanks

F