Now HERE'S a project. Useful Add-On opportunity.
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Take a look at attached screenshot. The idea is described below. If anyone can build this, they will have a big seller and I will be the first buyer.
1. It's a right-left scrollable feed of Past Events with 1 Thumbnail per event (like a horizontal pagelist grabbing Thumbnail Attributes from pages with previous and next buttons that appear when you hover over the right or left edges. It shows a block of however many images you want at whatever size you want. Hover over the left or right side and arrows appear to load in the next batch of thumbnails.
2. Hover over the thumbnail and a title of the event appears, fed in typical pagelist fashion but with this hovering AJAX appearance effect, which makes it special and unique.
3. Click the thumbnail and it will open a gallery right on that page of all the images for that event. Under enlarged images is a place to enter description and a clickable link to the Event's full page listing.
4. Close the gallery to return to the Thumbnails scroller.
- Any takers?
- Any ideas how to do it myself?
1. It's a right-left scrollable feed of Past Events with 1 Thumbnail per event (like a horizontal pagelist grabbing Thumbnail Attributes from pages with previous and next buttons that appear when you hover over the right or left edges. It shows a block of however many images you want at whatever size you want. Hover over the left or right side and arrows appear to load in the next batch of thumbnails.
2. Hover over the thumbnail and a title of the event appears, fed in typical pagelist fashion but with this hovering AJAX appearance effect, which makes it special and unique.
3. Click the thumbnail and it will open a gallery right on that page of all the images for that event. Under enlarged images is a place to enter description and a clickable link to the Event's full page listing.
4. Close the gallery to return to the Thumbnails scroller.
- Any takers?
- Any ideas how to do it myself?
I think building a custom template for the page list block would be the best approach for this (so each event is a page in your site).
Yeah, that's what I tried to explain above.
The difficulty appears when considering that each thumbnail now becomes a link to a Fancybox-type of gallery. Then, under the enlarged Fancybox-type image, there would be a description and link to the Event page.
If it's just a customized Pagelist, then there's no way to turn it into a gallery... basically, each thumb would be a separate event and each thumb would have a separate gallery and each gallery would have a link to the main Event page (from whence the thumbnail originates as an attribute)
The difficulty appears when considering that each thumbnail now becomes a link to a Fancybox-type of gallery. Then, under the enlarged Fancybox-type image, there would be a description and link to the Event page.
If it's just a customized Pagelist, then there's no way to turn it into a gallery... basically, each thumb would be a separate event and each thumb would have a separate gallery and each gallery would have a link to the main Event page (from whence the thumbnail originates as an attribute)
I just thought of something, though. I could maybe use the Fancy Image Links Add-On herehttp://www.modestbyte.com/portfolio/fancy-image-links/...
...to create a gallery for each thumbnail. Since Fancy Image Links allows for popping-up Page URLs, I could stick a gallery on a page and then stick that page in the pop-up that's linked to the PageList thumbnail... A pop-up in a pop-up. Hmmm. weird. Not what I had in mind, but it will actually work. Not very automated, though.
...to create a gallery for each thumbnail. Since Fancy Image Links allows for popping-up Page URLs, I could stick a gallery on a page and then stick that page in the pop-up that's linked to the PageList thumbnail... A pop-up in a pop-up. Hmmm. weird. Not what I had in mind, but it will actually work. Not very automated, though.
I modified jordans 'Sortable Fancybox Gallery' as to use one image as a link to the full gallery. Might perhaps give you some ideas.
You can see it in action here: http://www.anderssonfoodandakvavit.com/gallery...
Basically I added an option in the Add/edit dialogue to choose a 'Link image' which triggers the Fancybox gallery (as well as a gallery name).
Add/Edit dialogue in attached image.
You can see it in action here: http://www.anderssonfoodandakvavit.com/gallery...
Basically I added an option in the Add/edit dialogue to choose a 'Link image' which triggers the Fancybox gallery (as well as a gallery name).
Add/Edit dialogue in attached image.
Thank you so much! You've really helped me out a lot lately. I currently am taking a course to help me learn this stuff for real, so that's why it took me a little while to respond. It looks like what you've done here is exactly what I need, actually, so I am going to examine your code against the original code and try to figure out what you did and how it works. Thanks again!
EDIT: oh, I see you attached an image. I thought you had attached the code. How did you add that extra lightbox option? That's what I'm trying to figure out. I had asked Jordan about it and I think he said it would involve a lot of work he didn't have time for at the moment, but I might be remembering that wrong.
EDIT: oh, I see you attached an image. I thought you had attached the code. How did you add that extra lightbox option? That's what I'm trying to figure out. I had asked Jordan about it and I think he said it would involve a lot of work he didn't have time for at the moment, but I might be remembering that wrong.
