This widget gives you the means to create a carousel similar to the style of bootstraps own using data from a datasource microflow.
Bootstrap Example / Mendix Live Example
This widget gives the user the ability to embeded a list of objects and display their assoicated images on a mendix application.
Typical usage includes:
- News article list
- Image gallery
- Display a list of Objects with their assoicated image file.
- Ability to add a microflow link button to maniuplate the given item.
- Responsive - using default bootstrap carousel CSS.
- highly flexable - can adjust a lot of what is shown via widget options or CSS.
- Auto scroll, pause upon mouse hover etc. No additional js required.
- Expects a certain data format: ( [Item] ---- [Image System File] )
- Download the app from the store.
- Create a Microflow that will return the list of Objects you wish to display, the order set in the microflow is the order the items will be displayed.
- Configure the widget within the widget options.
- All done!
- Type of Objects - This is your entity type for the items in the carousel.
- Title - This is your title attribute.
- Description - This is your description attribute.
- Background Image - This is an associated entity that contains the system file image for the background.
- Onclick Microflow - By setting this you add a button to each item that will manipulate the object type. (If empty no button is shown)
- Datasource MF - the microflow for accessing the list of (Type of objects).
- ID - This gives the carousel an custom ID, if two carousels have the same ID you will get some funky behaviour to avoid this use differnt ids.
- Enable controls - Show or hides the direction arrows controls.
- Scroll speed - millseconds of how fast the transition.
- Show item dots - show or hides the counter dots.
Currently known - Please feedback to the author if you encounter any.