Installation and Configuration Manual · 2018, November Content Slider 1.0.0.0 Initial Release for SharePoint. 2018, November Content Slider 1.0.0.1 Bug Fix. 2019, January Content

Installation and Configuration Manual

Content Slider (V2.0.0.0) Manual

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Version History

Change Record

Date Author Version Change reference

2018, November Content Slider 1.0.0.0 Initial Release for SharePoint.

2018, November Content Slider 1.0.0.1 Bug Fix.

2019, January Content Slider 2.0.0.0 Item Version Slider & Metadata Column support.

Current Version for SharePoint Online

Name Version Approved Compatibility Date

SharePoint

Content Slider

Content Slider

Version 2.0.0.0

SharePoint 2013, SharePoint 2016,

SharePoint Online / Office 365.

2019, January


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Table of Contents

Introduction ................................................................................................................. 1

Content Slider Benefits and Features ............................................................................................. 2

Content Slider Installation ............................................................................................ 3

Types of License ............................................................................................................................. 3

Installing Content Slider App .......................................................................................................... 3

How to Use Content Slider ........................................................................................... 4

Configuration Pane ............................................................................................................................... 5

Preview Pane ........................................................................................................................................ 6

Configuration Pane: General Setting ..................................................................................................... 6

Right Panel: Content Setting ............................................................................................................... 23

File Management Buttons ................................................................................................................... 32

SharePoint Content Slider Support ............................................................................. 38


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Introduction

SharePoint Content Slider is the SharePoint add-in that allows you to easily create beautiful,

captivating slides with the content surfaced from your SharePoint lists.

The Content Slider will help you to showcase your work in an impressive creative way. The Content

Slider is added to a designated space on your site and enables your visitors to flip through slides to

consume various pieces of content at their own pace.

The Content Slider will be a helpful addition to your SharePoint sites – not only for you as the

designer or developer trying to be smart about how you utilise available real estate, but also for your

visitors.

Promote new content in a dynamic fashion, keeping the latest information front.

How does Content Slider Work?

With our easy to use, advanced Content Slider Builder you can quickly customise, edit and generate

Content Sliders to surface the content of any SharePoint list without coding. Simply choose your List,

define the selected fields to display, live preview and save. The generated Content Slider is fully

responsive and optimized to work across all devices.




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Content Slider Benefits and Features



The Content Slider will help you to showcase your work in an impressive creative way. The Content

Slider is added to a designated space on your site and enables your visitors to flip through slides to

consume various pieces of content at their own pace.

The Content Slider will be a helpful addition to your SharePoint sites – not only for you as the

designer or developer trying to be smart about how you utilise available real estate, but also for your

visitors.

Promote new content in a dynamic fashion, keeping the latest information front.

Content Slider Features:

- Quick and easy setup

- Slide Builder

- Display Items versions in Slider

- Read Slide Content from any SharePoint list (default list included)

- Content Slider Webpart to include to any page

- Creative, progressive & trendy

- Simple Content Slider List

- Multiple colour schemes

- 8 incredible scroll effects

- Different post styles (blog, basic, video, circle, text)

- 5 ways to navigate through slides

- Responsive design

- Touch enabled

- Infinity scrolls

- Several different post settings

- Custom image roll over settings


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Content Slider Installation

Types of License

Content Slider is made available from the Office Store (per user licence) and directly from Cirrus Soft (for Site, Site Collection and Farm/Tenant license)

Installing Content Slider App

To add an app from the SharePoint Store

1. Verify that the user account that is performing this procedure is a member of the site Owners

group.

2. On the home page, under Get started with your site, click Add lists, libraries, and other apps.

3. If the Get started with your site control does not appear on the home page, click the Settings

icon, and click View Site Contents, and then on the Site Contents page, click Add an App.

4. Click SharePoint Store.

5. Browse the SharePoint Store for “Content Slider”.

6. Click the Content Slider App.

7. Click Details, and then click Buy It.

8. Follow the steps to log in and purchase the App, if required.

9. In the Grant Permission to an App dialog box, if you trust the App, click Allow Access.

10. The Content Slider App is now added and appears in the Apps section of your Site Contents list.

*For SharePoint 2013/2016 on premise installations you will be provided with the

‘ContentSlider.app’ file to add to the app catalogue for the Content Slider Add-in to be made

available within your SharePoint environment.


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How to Use Content Slider

Go to Content Slider

1. Click on Open Content Slider Builder button to go to Content Slider BUilder.

Content Slider Builder

The Content Slider allows you to create Sliders to insert into SharePoint pages with the Content Slider

Webpart. The Builder includes a live preview pane to selects styles, effects and to configure the Slider

with the field contents from any SharePoint List.


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Configuration Pane


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In Configuration Panel, you can set General and Content Settings. You can set what data to set for

slider and which effect you want to apply for that content.

Preview Pane

This will dynamically preview the configuration settings that are made.

Configuration Pane: General Setting


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General Settings:

Here you apply the settings for style, animation effect and the SharePoint list from where to get the

Slider contents.

List/Library

This will list all lists and libraries from your site. Select the list/library from where you want to get data.

Order By

This will sort data based on sort direction and sort field you select.


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Filter

Display content from the selected list based on a filter expression. You can write your filter expression

for display.

Ref for Expression:

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/35796.sharepoint-2013-using-rest-api-

for-selecting-filtering-sorting-and-pagination-in-sharepoint-list.aspx#Filtering_items

Number of Records / Slides

This value will determine how many Slides / records will display from the SharePoint list.

Slider Style:

There are several different types of style for sliders.

When a Style is selected the it will dynamically show in the preview panel.

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/35796.sharepoint-2013-using-rest-api-for-selecting-filtering-sorting-and-pagination-in-sharepoint-list.aspx#Filtering_items

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/35796.sharepoint-2013-using-rest-api-for-selecting-filtering-sorting-and-pagination-in-sharepoint-list.aspx#Filtering_items


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Blog style

Text style


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Circle style

Video style

Background Image:


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Background Image is used to select the background. Either from SharePoint or using a custom URL.

If you select From SharePoint than this will show you two more options as below.

Image Library is from which library you want to select an Image.

Image is used for the Image you want to select as the Background Image.

For an Example you can see the below selected Images. Here we select Image Library and Image and

can see the Background Image in the preview pane.


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Now, if you select From URL than you must enter a URL in the Image Url and that Image will display

as the Background Image in the Preview Pane.

No Background:


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Background Opacity:

Background Opacity is used to make the Background image transparent.


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Background Style:

You can choose the style of Background. There are two options, Tile and Stretch to Fit.

If you select Tile than the Image is repeated in the background as below.


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If you select Stretch to Fit than it will extend the image picture to fill the Background.

Auto slide:

Auto Slide is used to automate the Content Slider slides.


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Record Colors

Configure each record color style. You can set maximum 15 alternative colors. After 15 records it will

restart the color scheme.

Scroll Effect

Set the Scroll Effects for the Slider.


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Example of Cube effect

Example of Carousel effect


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Example of Concave effect


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Example of Coverflow effect

Example of Spiral Top effect


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Example of Spiral Bottom effect

Example of Classic tilt effect


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Right Panel: Content Setting


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Content Settings are where you set the Configuration of your Slider.

Enable Version Content Slider: This will enable the Slider to display the different versions of an item

in the Slider.

Item: Select the item for which you want the versions to appear in a Slider. Users will be able to

select these items (for which they have permission) via the Slider Web Part..

Title: The field contents to display the title for Slides. As below.


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Image: The field contents to display the Images in Slides.

Date: The field contents to display the Date in the Slides.


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Description: The field contents to display the Description in the Slides.

Like Count: The field contents to display the Like count in the Slides.


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Chat Count: The field contents to display the chat count in the Slides.

Editor: The field contents to display the editor details in the slides.


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Category: The field contents to display the categories in the slides.

Show Social Link

Displays the Social media links as below.


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Facebook Url: The field contents to display the Facebook Url.

Twitter Url: The field contents to display the Twitter Url.

Instagram Url: The field contents to display the Instagram Url.


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YouTube Url: The field contents to display the YouTube Url.

Pinterest Url: The field contents to display the Pinterest Url.

Example,


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Destination Link: The field contents to display and go to the URL when the Slide item is clicked.


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File Management Buttons

New: Click New to create new Slider / File.

Using new you can create new File.

In the Popup enter the name of File. Slider File Name.


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Save:

You can create multiple Sliders and save, edit and organise these within folders. Once you insert a

Slider into a SharePoint Page with the Content Slider WebPart you can select the Slider from those

saved. Any update will reflect on the page.

Show/Hide Folder allows you to organise your Timeline files. If you Click on this, it will show you

options to Select an existing Folder. To add folders, see the Manage Folders section below.

Load:


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To Open an existing Slider file, click Load. From the Load/Open popup you can select the Timeline file

to open (click on the Timeline Name), for editing, or delete existing files.

Load > Import:

The Import feature can be used to import existing Sliders from another site.


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Paste the contents of a previous export and click on Import.

Load > Export:

Use Export to download the Content Slider file for future.


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Delete:

The Delete option will delete the Content Slider file.

Folder:

Click Folders if you would like to organise your saved Content Sliders within a folder structure.

Folder > Manage Folders:

From the Folder popup you can create New folders and Delete existing folders.

Folder > Create First Level Folder:

Use this option to create different level folders.


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Folder > Create:

Using this we can create new folder in existing folder in library.

Add the Name of the folder. Once you have set up your folders these will be available to select when

saving your Content Sliders.


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SharePoint Content Slider Support

Thank you for choosing SharePoint Content Slider. If you require any further assistance please visit our online Support Centre or Contact Us.

http://cirrussoft.support https://sharepointslider.com/support/

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