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[mneese Friend mneeseJoin date: November 2008Posts: 148Downloads:19Uploads:0 Thanks: 36 Thanked: 7 times in 1 posts]

#137341

On the top slideshow, when you hover there is a copy overlay that is somewhat transparent. The is a “readmore” button at the bottom right. How do you set the links for that button?

[cearl Friend cearlJoin date: January 2008Posts: 9Downloads:50Uploads:0 Thanks: 6 Thanked: 2 times in 1 posts]

#287525

You can change the link by editing the “JA Slideshow2” module. At the very bottom of the “Module Parameters” there is a box called “Description for each item”. The first line of code for each item reads:

Just replace “#” with the URL you want the link to go to.

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1. mneese

[mneese Friend mneeseJoin date: November 2008Posts: 148Downloads:19Uploads:0 Thanks: 36 Thanked: 7 times in 1 posts]

#287531

I thought it was going to be something yestertech like that. Thanks for the info.

[triangleguy Friend triangleguyJoin date: June 2008Posts: 9Downloads:0Uploads:1 Thanks: 3]

#287540

How do you go to an off-site URL? For example, if I want the user to be directed to “cnn.com” when he clicks “Read More,” how can I add that? I put in “cnn.com,” but the URL points to http://mysite.com/cnn.com, which is obviously not correct.

[cearl Friend cearlJoin date: January 2008Posts: 9Downloads:50Uploads:0 Thanks: 6 Thanked: 2 times in 1 posts]

#287554

Make sure you type “http://www.cnn.com” instead of just “cnn.com”. The script probably has an if-else statement that assumes you’re linking to a page on your site if you leave off the “http://”.

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1. mneese

[teezone Friend teezoneJoin date: June 2008Posts: 12Downloads:0Uploads:0 Thanks: 2 Thanked: 2 times in 1 posts]

#289766

I need to re-open this..

No matter what I use for url=, it defaults to the home page. It also seems I have two instances of ja_slideshow2, I have disabled one of them, use user7 one only.

I know what I’m doing here wrt to assigning links, and updating , but the links just don’t take. When I look at the source code, it shows:

urls:[”,”,”,”,”],

Can someone please try to change their own parameters in this module & let me know if the urls: change in source code..?

Thanks

[Grumpster Friend GrumpsterJoin date: June 2006Posts: 14Downloads:0Uploads:0 Thanked: 8 times in 1 posts]

#291245

Hi all,

Fought with this problem for a long time with another template using JA_Slideshow.

I got mine to work finally. Biggest breakthrough for me was that I set “Show Description” to YES. Without this option set to YES, whatever I put in the “Description Parameters” box wouldn’t work.

Once I had set the Show Description to YES, I used the following parameter format to create links from the images in the slideshow to internal articles:

Format Method #1:

image-name.jpg:caption=Your Caption&url=http://www.yoursite.com/etc.

In my specific case, I actually left the caption out because it ruined the look of my website. To leave out the caption, I created my description parameters like this:

image-name.jpg:caption=&url=http://www.yoursite.com/etc.

Once again, the biggest reason I finally got this to work is because I set Show Description to YES.

This way of formatting is different than an alternative way of creating the links using this format:

Format Method #2:


<h3>Some Header</h3>
<p>Some Text</p>


I could not get this formatting method to work, but I didn’t test it exhaustively.

[lanvan Friend lanvanJoin date: January 2009Posts: 13Downloads:0Uploads:0]

#299773

I can delete all of my code from desription parameters and all images and info are still there, could the site be pulling from somewhere else?

[lanvan Friend lanvanJoin date: January 2009Posts: 13Downloads:0Uploads:0]

#300081

I have mine set to yes show description, but the links still do not work? I can delete the whole line of code and nothing happens?

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