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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.