6. Carousel Ingredients:
• “Catalog Item” content type
• Stable URLs to bib records in catalog
• A cover art source (i.e., Syndetics)
• Upload widget also available for exceptions/missing/poor quality
cover art
• jCarousel*-based view
• CSS to adjust carousel to different sizes
*jCarousel is no longer actively
maintained
8. “Catalog Item” Particulars
• Second “Title” field feels redundant, but is
required for proper manipulation in the view
• Use the “Syndetic Links” field OR the image
upload widget
• A checkbox determines which page(s) on the site
the catalog item should appear upon
10. View Configuration
Particulars, 1/2
• OPAC URLs are listed first in fields so that you
can use tokens to pull them into image, title, and
author fields
• To send user into the OPAC, rewrite outputs for
image, title, and author (“output as link”) for cover
art image, title, and author/person info to the
catalog link to the bib record
11. View Configuration
Particulars 2/2
• Cover art images:
• Image availability: if an image is available from
Syndetics, check “Hide rewriting if empty,” and vice
versa
• Rewrite output of Syndetics image field:
• <img src="[field_syndetics_image-title]" alt="cover
art" width="150" height="225" />
• OR, use image style to resize an uploaded image