General ⇒ How to repeat the first slide? (Beamer)

[cbustaam]

Hello all,
I'm doing a presentation using beamer and I want to repeat the first slide of it. In this one is the title, authors, date and institution. The idea is to put it at the end (last slide). How can I do that?
Thanks

[kaiserkarl13]

How about this:

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\newcommand{\firstslide}{%
%%% CONTENTS OF FIRST/LAST SLIDE %%%
}

\begin{document}
\firstslide
...
\lastslide
\end{document}

[cbustaam]

Thanks kaiserkarl13. I tried your suggestion but it doesn't work.

[frabjous]

The following works for me:

Where the first frame goes, put:

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\begin{frame}[label=firstframe]
  \titlepage % (Or whatever else goes here.)
\end{frame}

Then the other frames, and then, at the end:

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\againframe{firstframe}

For details see sec. 11.2 of the Beamer User's Guide.

[cbustaam]

Hi frabjous,
I've seen the againframe trick, but I didn't know how to label the first slide. In the fisrt part I have:

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\begin{document}
\title[Shorst title]{The title}
\author[Authors]{Author 1 \and Author 2}
\date{\today}
\makebeamertitle
\end{frame}
\begin{frame}
\frametitle{Second slide}
.....

So, I don't know where label the first frame. Do you?
Thanks for your help
Bests

[frabjous]

It looks to me that your sample code is flawed, since you have an \end{frame} without a \begin{frame} before it. Even your first frame should have a \begin{frame} command.

Also, \makebeamertitle demands an argument. Use \titlepage instead.

Provided you DO have a \begin{frame} command. I already showed you how to label it. Put [label=...] immediately after \begin{frame}, with "..." filled in with whatever you want the label to be. See my example above.

Use something like this:

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\documentclass{beamer}

\title[Short title]{The title}
\author[Authors]{Author 1 \and Author 2}
\date{\today}
\begin{document}
\begin{frame}[label=firstframe]
\titlepage
\end{frame}

...

\againframe{firstframe}
\end{document}
    

Or actually, I strongly suggest using one of the Beamer templates discussed in the Beamer manual.

[localghost]

According to the idea of frabjous, Section 11.2 (Repeating a Frame at a Later Point, p. 100ff) of the beamer manual introduces the simplest method to do that.


Best regards
Thorsten

[cbustaam]

Thanks frabjous and localghost... your advice works great!
Bests

[CharlieMAC]

Is there any way to make a loop with the slides? I mean, let suppose I have 5 slides and I just want to show the first 3 slides by normal clicking and after the third one, it returns to the first slide automatically (I can do that using \againframe). Then, if I click again on the first slide, it goes to the second one and then to the third slide, then it goes to the first slide again and so on. The other 2 slides are shown only by clicking specifically on a hyperlink button.


Is there any way to do this?

Thanks in advance
Charlie