SharePoint Slide.Show 2
My favorite Slide Show for SharePoint has been updated. There is now a slide.show 2 that was released on October 24th. The updated slide show can be found here. To use it in SharePoint, the instructions will be slightly different than slide.show 1. The first thing you will notice is that the release download only contains a single file, Vertigo.SlideShow.xap. This actually make configuring this one quite a bit simpler. You still need a data source, either a Data.xml file, a Flickr site, or some other custom data provider. However, the html file is much simpler. The only code necessary is:
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<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" width="640" height="480" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0">
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<param name="background" value="black" />
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<param name="source" value="Vertigo.SlideShow.xap" />
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<embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="640" height="480" source="Vertigo.SlideShow.xap" background="black">
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</embed>
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</object>
This will use the Data.xml file. If you wish to use Flickr, see the documentation on the download site to configure Flickr. Everything else is the same as slide.show 1 in terms of getting it to work in SharePoint. Just place your .html, .xml and .xap file in a document library, point Data.xml to you image, and place a Page View web part on the page you want your slide show on and point it to your .html file containing the code above. I’ve already implemented this update on my blog here. I’ll try to get an actually SharePoint example up somewhere soon.
Is there a way to have the slideshow load to the album viewer first instead of the slide viewer?
So far I haven’t been able to use any of the configuration options from my .xml file that I had working on the previous version of Slide.Show- just the predefined themes – so I’m probably getting ahead of myself, but I just wondered…
Thanks!
KS – I don’t know of a way to start with the album view off the top of my head. It seems like I have run across it before though. I’ve been busy lately and haven’t had the time to research it, but as soon as I get the chance I’ll look into it and post an update
Many thanks! It worked perfectly on my blog
Ben,
I guess I’m missing something.
I created a Doc Lib for the 3 files. HTML. data.xml and the XAP file.
How do I configure this to pull images from a picture library?
Thank you
Ron
@Ron
Ron,
There are a couple of ways to do it. The first and simplest is to take the data.xml file you created, and edit it so that you have the path to every image you want displayed in the data.xml file. It should already be set up with some examples, you just need to edit it to fit your environment.
The second way would be to follow this series of blog posts about how to turn a picture library into a data source for the slide show.
Has anyone implemented Slide.Show so that it pulls the images dynamically? Seems odd that all the demos use a statis Data.xml file. Also, why does your object code reference macromedia?
M
Hi Ben,
When I down-loaded the 2.1 package, it did not contain the “Vertigo.SlideShow.xap” file and I am not sure where I can get it.
Am I missing something?
Thanks
Brent
Hi all,
I found the “Vertigo.SlideShow.xap” file so that is good.
When i am creating the site, i am a bit lost as to what files and folders i need to make the site work. I have the HTML file, an xml file (data.xml) and the xap file. I am assuming that I need the “theme” files but what else do i need?
Thanks.
Hi again,
You can scratch all the notes above. I figured it out.
What i want to do is have the ambum view the first one to show but I also want to use the “darkTheme” and it seems in the HTML file, I can’t have the “darkTheme” and configuration.xml at the same time. DOes anyone have an idea around this?
Thank you.