Overview
According to MSDN Picture Library Slideshow web part is used to display the pictures in a picture library slideshow.
Below are provided some details about how Picture Library Slideshow web part works:
Step 1. Query Picture Library
Picture items are retrieved via SPQuery from Picture Library and results are saved in internal array of ImageInfo entries
Step 2. Initialize and render Slideshow control
JavaScript Slideshow Library ( imglib.js) is included and slideshow control is rendered.
Information about Picture entries is passed to the client side and Slideshow control is initialized
Extending Picture Library Slideshow web part
Picture Library Slideshow web part class is marked as sealed, so it could not be extended by inheriting from it . But there is another way how it could be extended.
As was noted earlier SlideshowObject is instantiated using object constructor. Using the technique with overriding SlideshowObject constructor it is possible to provide additional logic as shown below:
For example, the following example demonstrates how to exclude pictures with no titles from displaying them in Slideshow :
Hi..This is a great information..It works fine..
I would like to add a hyperlink column to Picture content type. On clicking the image in the slide show web part, the user should be redirected to the value entered in the hyperlink column instead of the image itself. Can you suggest the changes to be done in this script to achieve this?
Hi, please follow my next post about different ways for customizing Slideshow web part. I believe your scenario is most similar to example 2 – Customize the display for Slideshow control: display original pictures
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Hey..can you pls share the Javascript code to open custom url on clicking on an image…Its quite urgent and would really appreciate it. Thanks.
did you find any solution ? I am facing the same problem