Package: collective.easyslider
IntroductionThis product allows you to easily add an easySlider content rotator to any page on a plone site using a WYSIWYG editor to design each slide.How-toOn a page, click actions -> Add Slider.  It should bring you to a slider settings page where you can modify different aspects of the slider and add/remove slides using a WYSWGY editor.  Keep in mind that the slides are fixed width so you need to specify the size you want.  Then you’ll want to start adding your slides.  To do this just clickadd new slidenear the bottom of the page.  Once you’ve finished adding slides and re-ordering slides, clicksaveand you should see the slider on your page now.You can also select a slider view for Folder and Collection content types.  Then the slider settings for that page will include settings to limit the amount of slides to have and to limit the type of slides used.ExamplesExamples of this being used in the wild.http://www.fbi.gov/http://www.chicagohistory.orghttp://www.reamp.orghttp://www.rehabpro.orghttp://swca.org/Installationadd collective.easyslider to your eggs and zcml sectionsre-run buildoutinstall the product like you would any other Plone productUninstallUninstall like normalgo to portal_setup in the zmi, click the ‘import’ tab, select “collective.easyslider uninstall” and click the “Import all steps” button at the bottom to perform clean up.Easy Template IntegrationIf you’d like to add dynamic content to your slides, add collective.easytemplate
to your eggs section in buildout, re-run buildout and restart your installation.
Then in the slider settings make sure you enable Easy Template.You can also render sliders in a Easy Template. The syntax is:{{ slider(“../front-page”) }}And for the sliderview{{ sliderview(“../a-collection”) }}Rendering Slider in TemplatesYou can also easily render your slider in a page template
if you’d like even more control over how it is displayed:<tal:slider tal:content=”structure context/../front-page/@@slider_util/render_inline” />And for the sliderview<tal:slider tal:content=”structure context/../front-page/@@slider_util/render_sliderview_inline” />Credits and Contributionsa lot of the credit for the inspiration, styling and insight into this product belongs to Espen Moe-NilssenChangelog1.4.1 (2014-01-13)add on hover option for slide overlay [vangheem]1.4.0 (2014-01-12)be able to show overlay html on the slide for free form slide creation [vangheem]added setting to hide title and description [espenmn]added setting (Bullets Only) [espenmn]Improve Accessibility use image with alt instead of css background image [smoussiaux]1.3.7 (2013-05-06)missed collections fix [vangheem]1.3.6 (2013-05-06)fix new style collections querying [ableeb]small fix so it works on Plone 4.3  [espenmn]1.3.5 (2013-03-05)fix upgrade step
[vangheem]1.3.4 (2013-02-25)fix borked previous release
[vangheem]1.3.3 (2013-02-25)be able to upgrade to use with new collection type
[vangheem]fix install if new collection type is not present
[vangheem]1.3.2 (2013-02-06)look at parent object if context is not anonatable.
this will fix plone.app.event sub events breaking.
[vangheem]1.3.1 (2013-02-05)fix import if plone.app.collection is not installed
[vangheem]1.3.0 (2013-02-02)support new style collections with sliderview
[ableeb]1.2.0 (2013-01-16)be consistent with Anysurfer
XXX HTML markup has changed slightly so please
test any style customizations when upgrading.
[smoussiaux]1.1.1 (2012-10-20)add zcml include to fix startup issues in some
Plone 4.2 setups.
[zopyx]1.1 (2012-09-19)Add global configuration
[zombified]1.0 (2012-04-25)allow original scale for slider view
[vangheem]add pause on hover option
[espen]]0.8.1b1 (2012-02-16)Add randomize feature
[vangheem]allow drag n drop reordering of slides
[vangheem]0.8.0b2 (2012-02-15)Ensure that users with the Site Administrator role can edit slider settings
under Plone 4.1+.
[davidjb]Fix failing test under Plone 3.
[davidjb]Remove bottom border for navigation bullets under <= IE6.
[davidjb]Allow active navigation bullets to change on slide transition under newNavigation Bulletslayout.
[davidjb]Added a new layout with bullets.
[espenmn]Ensure slider JS selects onlylielements that are slides. This fixes
transition problems when lists are within slides.
[davidjb]Fix IE 5/6 display issue with slider container showing overflow.
[davidjb]Return an error if the user’s attempt to move/remove a slide fails.
This prevents unnecessary AJAX calls from the client to reload slides.
[davidjb]Prevent index out of range error when attempting to move a slide down
if that slide is already at the end.
[davidjb]Simplify CSS for settings page as existing slider styles are now applicable.
[davidjb]Change slider settings page to ensure thatlislide elements are
correctly wrapped in aulby mimicking actual slider structures.  This
fixes settings page issues under IE 6 and 7 by ensuring the page produces
valid list markup.
[davidjb]Add CSS class selectors for slider and slider containers rather than just
ID-based selectors. This allows multiple slider structures on the same page
(eg the settings page). Slider display templates continue to use ID-based
structures.
[davidjb]Stylelielements on the Slider Settings page using specific class to
avoid affecting lists within slides.
[davidjb]Ensureulelements within slides don’t get styled by default.
[davidjb]0.8.0b1 ~ 2011-11-20Add ‘Crossfade’ effect to the slider. This option transitions slides into
each other with a crossfading effect, which contrasts with the standard
fade which fades out a slide before fading the next one in. Customise the
relevant CSS if you need custom z-indexes.
[davidjb]Prevent big arrow buttons from having a bottom border. This prevents a
conflict with the default Sunburst theme in Plone 4.1+.
[davidjb]0.7.4 ~ 2011-10-05add portal transform to transform resolveuid/uid links to path links.
[thor27]0.7.3 ~ 2011-10-05add js events.
[vangheem]handle objects that do not have a UID(plone site root).
[vangheem]0.7.2 ~ July 28, 2011final release
[vangheem]0.7.2a1 ~ July 22, 2011More fixes for transitions on skipped slides–make it seemless.
[vangheem]Allow to restart playing the slider after user interaction via configuration.
[vangheem]0.7.1a2 ~ July 21, 2011fixed auto transitions and numbering for skipped
navigation buttons.
[vangheem]0.7.1a1 ~ July 19, 2011continuous slide now no longer has “rewind” effect.
[vangheem]allow some customization of what numbers show up
for Navigation buttons.
[vangheem]implement locking behavior on transitions to help
keep transitions and buttons clicks seem a little more
controllable
[vangheem]0.7.0a1 ~ July 17, 2011add ability to have different transition and pause speeds
for even and odd slides.
[vangheem]0.6.2rc1 ~ July 8, 2011retrieve image sizes from plone.app.imaging settings
[espen]0.6.2b1 ~ July 7, 2011make slider work with multiple on one page
[vangheem]0.6.1 ~ July 6, 2011reference css and js from root
[vangheem]0.6.0 ~ July 6, 2011Fix tests base
[toutpt]Add french translations and improve localization
[toutpt]add ability to render the sliderview inline and with easytemplate
[vangheem]0.5.4 ~ February 20, 2011Fixed automatic transition not turning off when using
the fade effect. Fixeshttp://plone.org/products/collective.easyslider/issues/18[vangheem]fixed slider view only showing last slide. Fixeshttp://plone.org/products/collective.easyslider/issues/16[vangheem]provide ability to choose the image scale used for image and news item collection
slider views. Implementshttp://plone.org/products/collective.easyslider/issues/2[vangheem]0.5.3 ~ February 14, 2011on uninstall method, check that they are not reinstalling
the product. Otherwise, it will wipe all sliders..
[vangheem]0.5.2 ~ January 8, 2011Add old style uninstall method so
the uninstall profile is automatically called.
[vangheem]0.5.1 ~ January 7, 2011fixed css_slot in slider view. Closeshttp://plone.org/products/collective.easyslider/issues/11[vangheem]0.5.0 ~ January 7, 2011Fix some settings not working
[vangheem]add ability to render slider inline in page templates or
in an Easy Template. See Documentation.
[vangheem]0.4.1 ~ January 7, 2011fix slider not being able to be customized TTW in Plone 4
without an error
[vangheem]0.4.0 ~ January 6, 2011add integration with collective.easytemplate. You can now
easy create dynamic content in slides as you enable it in
the slide settings.0.3.2 ~ August 28, 2010Fix plone 4 compatibility with interface
fixeshttp://plone.org/products/collective.easyslider/issues/9no longer set width and height in js
fixeshttp://plone.org/products/collective.easyslider/issues/70.3.1 ~ May 14, 2010don’t use SESSION to store the index since a user
could potentially abuse this…
[vangheem]0.3 ~ May 13, 2010remove getSite call from upgrade step as it’s unneeded anyways.
[vangheem]no longer open edit slide in light box thing by tranversing a transient
object–now works with any editor(TinyMCE) fixeshttp://plone.org/products/collective.easyslider/issues/1[vangheem]0.3rc4 ~ April 4, 2010fixed problem where annotations settings were getting
set from the previous slides since the default values
were getting changed. fixeshttp://plone.org/products/collective.easyslider/issues/4[vangheem]added type=’text/css’ to style tags
[vangheem]0.3rc3 ~ April 16, 2010set z-index to 1 on slide-over class since it messes with live search.
fixeshttp://plone.org/products/collective.easyslider/issues/3[vangheem]added pause/play button ability for navigation buttons.
[vangheem]adds fading navigation functionality
[vangheem]0.3rc2added ability for different slide effectsremoved Zope2 style install and uninstalladded slider portletadded no buttons option for navigation type0.3rc1added small buttons option for a navigation type0.3b4fixed bug where if a content item had a slider page in it’s acquisition chain it would throw an error.0.3b3.1quick fix for uninstall problem…  should have tested it better!0.3b3fixed link issues for images0.3b2made some fixes to go to button implementation.added centering attributecan now choose to show the large left right buttons or the go to buttons.0.3b1.1moved to easySlider 1.5added auto, pause and continuous optionsadded sliderview to Folder and Collection typesadded go to buttons and options for slider0.2b1better test supportbetter design of settings pagechanged some descriptionsreorganized some codeconfirmation to remove slide0.2a1Everything ready to gono vast browser testingno code testing yet either