rotating feature / news items - have “controls” be discs not numbers

Request Type: 
General Assistance
Forums: 
Module configuration
Author: 
Lisa Brennan
Issue/Request: 

Hello. I am incorporating the rotating image/news feature into our site(s) and would like to have the controller on the lower right hand corner display as dics and not numbers. How do I do this?

Lisa.

Chao Hang Lu on November 17, 2015:

problem resolved.

Lisa Brennan on November 17, 2015:

How did you do this? was it css or was it a setting in the module? For future reference.

L.

Nancy Flowers-Mangs on November 17, 2015:

We put the following CSS in the CSS Injector

.flex-control-nav a
{
    font-size:0;
}
.flex-control-nav a:after{ 
  font-size:20px;
   margin-top:12px;
   margin-left:-10px;
    position: absolute;  
    top: 8px;  
    background: #fefefe;
    content: “\2022”;
}
 
Lisa Brennan on November 17, 2015:

Is there a way to allow for really long urls in the “related story url” field? My calendar links are only going to the week in question - not the actual event. 

here is an example of an event listing url: //calendar.yale.edu/cal/macmillan/week/20151118/All/CAL-2c9cb3cc-508d3d0e-0150-aac8bc46-000025dcbedework@yale.edu/">http://calendar.yale.edu/cal/macmillan/week/20151118/All/CAL-2c9cb3cc-50…

L.

Lisa Brennan on November 17, 2015:

I changed the url field setting.

l.

Nancy Flowers-Mangs on November 17, 2015:

Actually this didn’t fix the problem. It looks like the link field has a limit of 225 characters and my bet is that your URLs are longer than that.

I’m working on a fix. 

Nancy Flowers-Mangs on November 17, 2015:

OK, this is fixed. I think the issue is the Bedework calendar has an @ symbol in the URL so it was getting encrypted thinking it was an email address (another module we have protect email addresses from spammers). so rather than trying to use the URL as the link, I used Field Redirection to redirect the landing page to the URL in the field. Seems to be working now.