A very nice embedded slideshow

I purchased Slideshowpro last fall searching for a gallery solution but it didn't work to well. Now it works great with views integration. I still need to figure out how to hide blank slides it if there is a set number in the CCK field.

Recipe requires:
1. A purchased copy of Slideshowpro (Sorry, I know it's not the drupal way).http://slideshowpro.net/
2. SSP Integration Module http://drupal.org/project/ssp
3. It works with stock modules with OpenPublish, i.e. Views, CCK, File Field, Imagecache, context http://drupal.org/project/context (needed for the embed) ect.
4. Views default argument from context. http://drupal.org/project/views_arg_context

If the site is in a sub-directory there is some problems. the slideshowpro.swf to the root of the Drupal site. Here is some issues on configuring it. http://drupal.org/node/750220 (This is not the Drupal way) I changed line 36 in ssp_multiple.cck to 'field_name' => 'field_slideshow_nodes' and in ssp_multiple.cck to 'field_name' => 'field_slideshow_images' to prevent namespace issues with fields. I removed the OP slideshow so if you still want to use that to build large slideshows with Views Slideshow Module then you will have to change line 2,3 and 16 from slideshow to something else.

Go to /admin/content/node-type/article/fields and add 'existing field' file:field_slideshow_images (Images) as field. Also you can create a group to put the file field in so you can collapse it to keep it clean and tidy. It's really smooth with fields for title and description which show very nicely on SSP.

Read the readme.txt file in this issue queue. http://drupal.org/node/723792 It explains how to set up a tiny module to pass the current NID of the node displayed to views using context_set() in the context.module. Once the block view is created use context.module to embed it in into the articles node.

I included an image of how the node creation form looks and an image of the node's images in slideshow embedded in a block.

There is a theme function that can be copied into template.php which sends all the configurable Flash params to the SlideShowPro player. It's very cool.