Possible for Fade Effect on a Randomised Collection?

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I have a collection that filters based on randomised number column. I am not sure if this is possible for a fade transition every time the collection updates. The randomisation works as follows:

  • timestamp for each record
  • relative time difference to NOW
  • random number with relative time diff as seed
  • lookup array of all the random numbers (sorted via a query)
  • element index of the exact random number (for each record) in this array - this is the filter / sort condition for the collection

Thanks!

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hi Hans, what do you mean by a fade transition?

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Hi @Swift_Struck_24 thanks.

The filtered and sorted collection updates everytime the relative time col updates (roughly every 10s). This literally just changes the collection in an instant.

Am wondering if there’s a possibility to fade between those updates so the transition is less abrupt.

Thanks!

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Oh for context, my use case is a sort of dedication wall, so I make use of a card collection to filter the first 6 numbers that are generated by the randomisation. So that the dedications displayed randomly appear.

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Ahh I see. You want a rolling carousel feature.

Try using Gemini or gpt to ask you to get a rich text code that can display images in a slow fade carousel.

Ensure you ask the AI to pick up information from a string of comma separated images urls. Maybe it can just be a placeholder in your code like this: {image_url_strings}

Once you have this code, paste it in a rich text component , replace the placeholder with a join list of image URLs.

You should be able to achieve what you want.

We just did this last month

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Hmm, slightly different as I’m making use of the card collection to display multiple columns of data. Each record would have:

  1. Image (optional)
  2. Song title (optional)
  3. From who to whom
  4. The actual message

Also, it would involve more than record being shown (multiple cards).

My hope was css but my suspicion is that wouldn’t work since I’m not sure how it would know to trigger the fading change as that is dependent on the Now value updating in the Glide table.