As we already discussed in Chapter 3 recipe Making selections from a custom image, you can use the image component to show pictures or Flash (.swf
) files in your dashboard. This recipe will show how you can create slide shows of multiple images and/or SWF files with the slide show component.
For this recipe, we need some images and/or SWF files. Make sure that these are all files are of the following types—.jpeg
, .png
, .gif
, .bmp
, or .swf
. The files can be on your local computer or on the Web.
Enter the URLs of the images or SWF files you want to show in the spreadsheet.
Drag a play selector component into the canvas. Set this component up to insert rows to destination cell A4, where the cells containing the URLs are the source data cells. For more information on this component, see recipe Using the Play Selector/Play Control in Chapter 3.
Now drag a slide show component into the canvas.
Bind the URL field to cell A4.
Switch to the Behavior tab...