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Slideshow for WebGUI  (#10749)
Issue

United Knowledge has created a very slick slideshow that is included in the core of WebGUI:

http://www.webgui.org/extras/ukplayer/slideshow.html
http://www.webgui.org/extras/ukplayer/readme.txt

The biggest issue with this slideshow is that all of the configuration of the system takes place in XML files....which is counter to the non-technical audience that should be able to create and update items like this within WebGUI.

There has been some discussion here about simplifying the creation and updating of a slideshow in WebGUI:
http://www.webgui.org/design/forum/slideshow?pn=2

Ideas discussed in that thread include:

* Using a CS RSS feed to generate the XML. Moving forward into 7.7, this becomes an aspect...and appears not to be templatable. Therefore, this may not be a viable solution.

* Using Thingy to input the data, then using a SQL report with a custom template to create the required XML

* Perhaps a standalone interface / wobject that becomes "The" slideshow in WebGUI?

I know that a "Slick" slideshow is on the wishlist for our company, and I suspect it would be widely used by others as well.

Please consider this as an enhancement for future versions of WebGUI.

Thank you.

Jarrod

 

Comments
JT
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8/25/2009 4:00 pm 		Would a template for the new Carousel asset that used this functionality serve your purpose?
jigou
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8/25/2009 6:38 pm 		Maybe?

Assuming it's coupled with Kristi's request (http://www.webgui.org/rfe/request-for-enhancement/10512)  for uploading, that would address the ease-of-administration piece that our company would like to see.

I'm assuming the template would provide the ability to add an optional caption / related text (probably from the Metadata or something similar on each image)?

I've looked at the Carousel examples that Yahoo has published here: http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/examples/carousel/index.html ...and while OK, none of them really excite me from the "Slick" standpoint the way the United Knowledge slideshow does. But maybe those examples are a limited subset of what can be achieved?

Albert, any thoughts?

Jarrod
JT
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8/25/2009 6:41 pm 		Sorry, I wasn't saying that we would use YUI carousel for this template. Instead, it would use the carousel asset, with a template that would load the data into the UK Player. In other words, it would be an alternate template for the Carousel asset.
jigou
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8/25/2009 7:11 pm 		Ahh, gotcha.

In that case, assuming it's "easy" to load per Kristi's RFE, I think it would be perfect for our use.
JT
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8/25/2009 7:37 pm 		Sweet. Then this RFE is approved.
jmack
5
5/31/2010 10:37 am 		Hi, just gave 2750 karma to this RFE. Hopefully more people are willing to spend some bigger amounts of karma on this. This is a great feature!

Goal: I want to show my customers a "bunch of pictures", in a impressive way, at the same time it must be very easy to understand for them, 0.0%  learning curve for visitors.
stevennestler
5
8/11/2010 5:34 am 		I've given what little karma I have to this.
I'm new to WebGUI, so please pardon me, if my question is irrelevant. Is it possible to use Ajax, so that the slide show would call for each image individually, rather than load all at once, and slow the page?  I have that on my DotNetNuke site now, and it helps performance greatly.
preaction
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9/1/2010 10:16 am 		If I'm reading this RFE correctly is it for exactly "A Carousel template that uses the UKPlayer slideshow system".

If I'm looking at how to use the UKPlayer, it seems that the XML document must be on a different page from the content, which would require some fancy text editing from the user (or a horrible hack in the backend code).

The UKPlayer is pretty, but it's flash. JS can do everything it does and by replacing existing HTML.

Would a carousel template that includes something like lightbox be acceptable?

http://www.huddletogether.com/projects/lightbox2/
http://fancybox.net/

Or anything like these things:

http://planetozh.com/projects/lightbox-clones/
jigou
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9/1/2010 11:15 am 		For our part, I don't know that anything lightbox-related really gets us where we want to be (although maybe there's something out there that morphs it to that point?)

Speaking for our intended use, we aren't as concerned about a thumbnail that leads to a high-resolution image - rather, we have a number of images that we just want people to be able to flip through. A pop-up lightbox-based slideshow can do that, but embedding it within the page is something that fits us better (at least today....)

Time to pack up and hit the road to Madison!

Jarrod
martien
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9/2/2010 10:28 am 		Warning for lightbox!
Using this, you'll get trouble with a YUI-menu,
if parts of the sub-menus overlap the slider.

The YUI Carousel can be adapted to show another as the standard layout by changing the sprite and some css.
preaction
0
9/2/2010 1:28 pm 		I've implemented a new interface to editing the Carousel which allows for media uploads in the interface. Now it uses the same Rich Editor that everything else does.

Here's a screenshot. Does this meet the need for a slideshow component in WebGUI?
martien
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9/6/2010 4:24 pm 		That's great, since it was barely possible to change the invalid <img >-Tag

One thing to improve Carousel would be a skin and a/the sprite as assets, accessable from the admin-interface, so it could be changed without touching the core.
preaction
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9/6/2010 5:09 pm 		Huh? The yui-skin-sam comes with YUI. There are no alternative skins that I have seen. YUI will not be assets, as overriding the assets inside WebGUI would cause problems with upgrading.

If you want to override anything in yui, all you need to do is use CSS rules in any of the extra head tags block, but that has nothing to do with this RFE.

Does putting the TinyMCE editor into the Carousel make this a viable slideshow mechanism for WebGUI?
preaction
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9/6/2010 5:09 pm 		stevennestler: It would be possible, but that would be a separate RFE.
jmack
4
9/8/2010 3:35 pm 		We will stick to UK player! It's slick and unique. Carousel I find a bit static & simple... Sorry, it's just not as impressive as UK player.. And too many sites use Lightbox these days, it's mainstream / not unique anylonger.

preaction: "If I'm looking at how to use the UKPlayer, it seems that the XML document must be on a different page from the content"

>> I put all files on one page, when ready configuring just hide the (XML-)assets in the 2nd edit tab. (view-tab?)
jigou
0
9/9/2010 11:02 am 		jmack, are you loading all of the images manually elsewhere, then hand-crafting the XML document for the player?
Tiffany
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5/26/2011 11:37 pm 		I love the UK Player...i might have missed this but could this have each slide link to a page?  Could this interact with the Collaboration System as a direct feed?  I have alot of Karma to spend and would love to invest it in this if it could do these two things.  It would definitely make WebGUI "Super Slick"
Details
Ticket Status Pending  
Rating4.7 
Submitted By jigou  
Date Submitted2009-08-11 
Assigned To unassigned  
Date Assigned 2012-02-12  
Assigned By  
What to improve? WebGUI Stable  
URLrfe/request-for-enhancement/10749
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Difficulty 3  
Karma So Far5268
Karma Rank1756.00
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Ticket History
11/7/2011
11:28 PM 		100 karma transferred cgwebgui
9/1/2010
11:15 AM 		Pending jigou
9/1/2010
10:17 AM 		Feedback Requested DBell
8/13/2010
2:05 PM 		500 karma transfered cgwebgui
8/11/2010
5:31 AM 		10 karma transfered stevennestler
5/31/2010
10:28 AM 		2750 karma transfered jmack
2/24/2010
10:57 AM 		2 karma transfered cgwebgui
11/27/2009
6:47 AM 		456 karma transfered Klaus
8/26/2009
4:14 PM 		700 karma transfered rogier
8/26/2009
3:43 PM 		500 karma transfered jigou
8/25/2009
7:37 PM 		Difficulty changed to 3 JT
8/25/2009
7:11 PM 		Pending jigou
8/25/2009
6:41 PM 		Feedback Requested JT
8/25/2009
6:38 PM 		Pending jigou
8/25/2009
4:00 PM 		Feedback Requested JT
8/24/2009
12:56 PM 		250. karma transfered aewhale
8/11/2009
10:40 AM 		Ticket created jigou
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