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Configure a Rotor Banner using the Views Module

Rotor Banners are created through the Views interface at Site Building -> Views (/admin/build/views). One Rotor Banner is provided for your convienience, you should find it in your Views list - it's called 'rotor'!

rotor view in views administration page

Clicking the 'Edit' button will take you into the Views UI, from where you can tweek the settings such as the speed of the transitions, the type of transition effect (fade, zoom, wipe etc), the position of the tabs etc.

Altering the Rotor Style

In the 'Basic Settings' setion, you should see that the display Style is set to 'Rotor'.

Clicking on the ajax icon next to this will present you with the following form:

Full instructions are provided for each option - tweek away until you have the view set up the way you want it, and click the 'Update' button. There is a lot more you can do with Views, but that is outside the scope of this documentation.

Important: Once you have finished setting up your view, click the 'Save' button to apply your changes.

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Anonymous's picture

in the latest version the settings showup when the settings for the style: Rotor

Anonymous's picture

I have a page with two rotors on it, but the second rotor doesn't work.  Is there a limit to how many rotors can be on a page, and, if so, do you have any suggestion for how to work around it?Thank you,~Todd

tom's picture

You should be able to have as many Rotors on a page as you like. Please open a ticket in the module's issue queue with as much information about your problem as possible: http://drupal.org/project/issues/rotor

Anonymous's picture

Finally someone writes step by step instructions. I have tears of joy in my eyes. THANK YOU!

Anonymous's picture

Hello, this might me a total newby question. My rotor is workin great and I LOVE IT, only thing is that the details I enter for the Roto Items are promoting to the front page, how do I fix that? - thanks. Ana

tom's picture

When you create your rotor item, uncheck the 'promote to front page' checkbox from the 'publishing options' fieldset.

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