How to start views at %nid position (from path)?

Question

I have a portfolio showing somes nodes (views3 + views slideshow using cycle). Everything works fine, I've a default path /portfolio to access to it.

However, I'm trying to set a path for each slide. I would like to use /portfolio/%nid and using %nid in views to default the first viewed slide to this node id.

Anyone know how it is possible ? I've tried with UI but I don't think it is enough.

Answer 1

In jQuery Cycle there is an option called startingSlide. By default this is set to 0, like this: startingSlide: 0

If I remember correctly there is a tab/textarea for advanced settings where you can add options to jQuery Cycle from within the Views UI. I think you can add "startingSlide: 5" for example there.

You will need to find out which is the starting slide (convert the %nid to which row in the view it is) and add it as a HTML element. When that is in place we can fetch it with jQuery and add it as a jQuery Cycle option. I'm not sure which is the best way but I think you could do something like:

    function MYMODULE_views_pre_render(&$view) {
      if($view->name == "MYVIEW") {
        $view->attachment_after = $startingslide;
      }
    }

You will have to add more code to find out $startingslide there of course. Look inside $view->result and find out which of the rows that is the argument, that will be your $startingslide. Use dpm() on the view to search through the object.

Hope this will help you. Let me know what you ended up doing :)

Answer 2

You could add an exposed filter to your view, configure it to show nids greater than the provided value, and mimic it's URL accordingly.

for example /portfolio?nid_is_greater_than=3

You could then hide your filter with css.