# Mobile app: Carousel
#  Getting started
In this article, you can find information about the mobile app: Carousel sub-category. Carousel is equivalent to sliders on the e-commerce platform, except it shows only the first carousel depending on their sort order and after selecting it customer will see a story (similar to Instagrams stories), where every available carousel is visible for a short time.
 **Remember**You can find more information about the mobile app and other sub-categories in the [Mobile app](https://knowledge.tauceti-digital.com/books/e-commerce/page/mobile-app) article.
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*Visualization of the carousel story on the mobile app* |
To open the Carousel view, in the admin panel, navigate to:
***Mobile app > Carousel***
All possible operations to perform on the **Carousel** view can be done in the **Filters (1)**, and **Carousel (2) **tabs.
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*Visualization of the carousel sub-category* |
Table of contents:
1. [ Filters section](#bkmrk-filters-section)
2. [Carousel](#bkmrk-carousel)
3. [ Creating a carousel](#bkmrk-creating-a-carousel)
4. [ Application view](#bkmrk-application-view)
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#  Filters section
The **Filters** section allows sorting of the carousel in the mobile app module, based on the available filters. Below you will find a description of available filters
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*Visualization of the filters section* |
- **Is active?** - Carousel activity status.
- **Date start** - A range of dates that indicate the start date of the carousel.
- **Date end** - A range of dates that indicate the end date of the carousel.
After defining the above filters, select the **Apply Filters** button to get a list of sites according to the applied filters.
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#  Carousel
The **Carousel** section allows organizing the filtered featured carousels, edit them and create new ones and delete them.
Below you will find a description of all possible actions you can perform in the Carousel section.
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*Visualization of the carousel section* |
- Select the **Show X entries(1)** field to set the number of carousels, displayed on one page (min 10 / max 100).
- The names of the columns **(2)** that contain information about a target carousel. Each column is susceptible to sorting.
To sort the records, click on the title of the column in question.
- **ID** - An internal ID of the carousel.
- **Title** - Internal title of the carousel. This field is not visible to the customers
- **Story title** - Story, public title of the carousel. This field is visible to the customers.
- **Date start** - Start date when the carousel will be visible to the customers.
- **Date End** - End date when the carousel will be hidden from the customers.
- **Is active?** - Activity status of the carousel.
- **Actions** - List of buttons with possible actions that can be done to the desired carousel.
- **Edit** - Edit desired carousel. As editing contains exactly the same fields and actions as creating a new carousel you can read more about it in the [ Creating a carousel](#bkmrk-creating-a-carousel) chapter.
- **Delete** - Deletes the selected carousel without the ability to restore it.
- Select the **Add (3)** button to go to the adding the new carousel. You can learn more about adding of the carousel in the [ Creating a carousel](#bkmrk-creating-a-carousel) chapter.
- **Search box (4)** where you can search for carousels by their system name.
- **Page buttons(5)**, which allow users to change the page of the currently viewed carousel.
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#  Creating a carousel
Add button allows users to create a new carousel.
Below, you will find a description of all possible fields that can be edited while creating a new carousel.
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*Visualization of the creating the carousel* |
- **Title** (mandatory) - Internal carousel name. This field is not visible to the customers.
- **Story title** (mandatory) - Public carousel name. This field is visible to the customers.
- **Description** (mandatory) - Description of the carousel. This field is visible to the customers.
- **Link type** (mandatory) - Type of a link available in the carousel. Depending on the selected type the **Object ID** field will require different input. There are 5 types of links:
- Product - Product available on the website.
- Category (tag) - Category tag available on the website.
- Promotion page - Promotion page available on the website.
- Openset page - Openset page available on the website.
- Custom view - Custom object programmed by the mobile app developers.
- **Object ID** (mandatory) - ID of an object selected in **Link type** section.
- Product - Product SKU i.e. J12345
- Category (tag) -Tag ID i.e. 76938
- Promotion page - Promotion page internal ID i.e. 1234
- Openset page - Openset internal ID i.e. 765
- Custom view - Custom field that doesn't have any validation. Custom values configured and programmed by mobile app developers can be put here.
- **Small image** (mandatory) - Small image of the carousel. Recommended image size: 200x400.
- **Medium image** (mandatory) - Medium image of the carousel. Recommended image size: 400x600.
- **Large image** (mandatory) - Large image of the carousel. Recommended image size: 800x1000.
- **Start date** - Start date when the carousel will be visible to the customers.
- **End date** - End date when the carousel will be hidden from the customers.
- **Sort order** (mandatory) - Sort order of the carousel. The lower the sort order the earlier in the order selected carousel will be visible to the customer.
- **Is active?** - Switch, which defines if the selected carousel is visible in the mobile app.
With all necessary fields filled, you can save the changes using the **save** button.
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#  Application view
Customers accessing the Yves Rocher application will view the carousel with the lowest sort order a the top of the page.
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*Visualization of the carousel on the mobile app* |
When selecting the carousel it will open carousel story where the carousel will change the slide every 10 seconds.
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*Visualization of the carousel story on the mobile app* |
Selecting the **discover more** button will redirect the user to the desired page set in the "**link type**" and "**object id**" part of the carousel.
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*Visualization of the promotional page* |