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Frode Slettum

Tuesday 29 August 2006 4:47:22 am

Hi

A customer of mine today uses powerpoint to show a slideshow presentation on a big monitor. It has about 4 slides that's looping. It's a ok solution, but it's a bitch to update. It's very static and he has to stop the slideshow when updating it.

I thought I maybe could use eZ publish to this. My idea was to make 4 dummy folders from root node, make a template override for each folder that displayed different information (ads, news etc) and some kind of code on each template to redirect to the next page within <x> seconds.

Does this sounds like a good ide? If yes, what code should I use to redirect to the next page?

If there is no easy way, I guess I could do a <meta> redirect manually on each template, and the 4. template to point to the first node.

Christian Johansen

Tuesday 29 August 2006 11:57:11 pm

If it's a presentation that's running in a single location you have full control of your environment, so how you create your redirecting doesn't really matter, as long as it works in the environment you'll be using it in. You can do <meta>-redirects or do some javascript.

Sounds like a nice way to do slide shows to me. You can even use Opera in fullscreen view to project it without showing the browser.

Frode Slettum

Wednesday 30 August 2006 7:34:03 am

Thank you for your feedback.

Didn't really thought abouth that opera-trick .. Great idea.

One other thing, how can i accomplish this with <meta> when the template code comes within the <body> tag? Do I have to use java script?

Christian Johansen

Wednesday 30 August 2006 9:56:33 am

I'm not sure whether or not meta redirect works in body or not, just try it. If it doesn't work, create a pagelayout override for the slideshow section that just does the basic head things and leaves the rest of head as well as all of body to the node template:

<!DOCTYPE ...>
<html>
 <head>
  <title>...</title>
  [more]
{$module_result.content}
</html>

And then in node templates:

<meta ...>
</head>
<body>
 [BODY here]
</body>

It's a bit dirty since the pagelayout doesn't nest properly, but it works.

eZ debug

Timing: Jan 18 2025 15:18:32
Script start
Timing: Jan 18 2025 15:18:32
Module start 'content'
Timing: Jan 18 2025 15:18:32
Module end 'content'
Timing: Jan 18 2025 15:18:32
Script end

Main resources:

Total runtime0.2086 sec
Peak memory usage2,048.0000 KB
Database Queries141

Timing points:

CheckpointStart (sec)Duration (sec)Memory at start (KB)Memory used (KB)
Script start 0.00000.0060 587.7109180.8359
Module start 'content' 0.00600.0052 768.546997.8984
Module end 'content' 0.01120.1974 866.4453526.5547
Script end 0.2085  1,393.0000 

Time accumulators:

 Accumulator Duration (sec) Duration (%) Count Average (sec)
Ini load
Load cache0.00361.7157200.0002
Check MTime0.00130.6458200.0001
Mysql Total
Database connection0.00080.385010.0008
Mysqli_queries0.167380.21811410.0012
Looping result0.00130.63791390.0000
Template Total0.197194.510.1971
Template load0.00070.349510.0007
Template processing0.196494.138810.1964
Override
Cache load0.00050.243110.0005
Sytem overhead
Fetch class attribute can translate value0.00070.339810.0007
XML
Image XML parsing0.00030.123210.0003
General
dbfile0.00180.8841200.0001
String conversion0.00000.002430.0000
Note: percentages do not add up to 100% because some accumulators overlap

CSS/JS files loaded with "ezjscPacker" during request:

CacheTypePacklevelSourceFiles
CSS0extension/community/design/community/stylesheets/ext/jquery.autocomplete.css
extension/community_design/design/suncana/stylesheets/scrollbars.css
extension/community_design/design/suncana/stylesheets/tabs.css
extension/community_design/design/suncana/stylesheets/roadmap.css
extension/community_design/design/suncana/stylesheets/content.css
extension/community_design/design/suncana/stylesheets/star-rating.css
extension/community_design/design/suncana/stylesheets/syntax_and_custom_tags.css
extension/community_design/design/suncana/stylesheets/buttons.css
extension/community_design/design/suncana/stylesheets/tweetbox.css
extension/community_design/design/suncana/stylesheets/jquery.fancybox-1.3.4.css
extension/bcsmoothgallery/design/standard/stylesheets/magnific-popup.css
extension/sevenx/design/simple/stylesheets/star_rating.css
extension/sevenx/design/simple/stylesheets/libs/fontawesome/css/all.min.css
extension/sevenx/design/simple/stylesheets/main.v02.css
extension/sevenx/design/simple/stylesheets/main.v02.res.css
JS0extension/ezjscore/design/standard/lib/yui/3.17.2/build/yui/yui-min.js
extension/ezjscore/design/standard/javascript/jquery-3.7.0.min.js
extension/community_design/design/suncana/javascript/jquery.ui.core.min.js
extension/community_design/design/suncana/javascript/jquery.ui.widget.min.js
extension/community_design/design/suncana/javascript/jquery.easing.1.3.js
extension/community_design/design/suncana/javascript/jquery.ui.tabs.js
extension/community_design/design/suncana/javascript/jquery.hoverIntent.min.js
extension/community_design/design/suncana/javascript/jquery.popmenu.js
extension/community_design/design/suncana/javascript/jScrollPane.js
extension/community_design/design/suncana/javascript/jquery.mousewheel.js
extension/community_design/design/suncana/javascript/jquery.cycle.all.js
extension/sevenx/design/simple/javascript/jquery.scrollTo.js
extension/community_design/design/suncana/javascript/jquery.cookie.js
extension/community_design/design/suncana/javascript/ezstarrating_jquery.js
extension/community_design/design/suncana/javascript/jquery.initboxes.js
extension/community_design/design/suncana/javascript/app.js
extension/community_design/design/suncana/javascript/twitterwidget.js
extension/community_design/design/suncana/javascript/community.js
extension/community_design/design/suncana/javascript/roadmap.js
extension/community_design/design/suncana/javascript/ez.js
extension/community_design/design/suncana/javascript/ezshareevents.js
extension/sevenx/design/simple/javascript/main.js

Templates used to render the page:

UsageRequested templateTemplateTemplate loadedEditOverride
1pagelayout.tpl<No override>extension/sevenx/design/simple/templates/pagelayout.tplEdit templateOverride template
 Number of times templates used: 1
 Number of unique templates used: 1

Time used to render debug report: 0.0001 secs