Creating a Flexslider

A flexslider is a great jQuery Image slideshow, which shows some nice transition of images with captions and with the navigation system.

To create a flexslider, you will need to create news stories and use the News Story tags.

News_Bydate tag
News_Byorder tag
How to create a new news story
How to use the News Story tags

To create a flexslider, you will need to create news story. With the new news story, you will need to fill out all required fields, including the Topic field, which the FNews tags will have as a parameter, and it is recommended to fill out the abstract field. The Abstract field is used to give a brief description of the story in the flexslider. After you finished creating the news story, you will need to upload an image that goes with the news story under the Image section, finally you will need to publish the news story.

After you have created the news stories, you will need to set up the area that will contain the News tags. The area should contain a News tag similar to this: LC:FNEWS_LIST_BYORDER:News Slider BLD::Home Page Slider:5. In this example, the tag will list news stories based on their order (a field set when the news story was created.), is using a builder area that specifies the layout of the flexslider, is going off the news topic "Home Page Slider", and will display the 5 newest stories.