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You can use the assets setting to display the child folders gallery within the parent page. However, I am curious why you would want to do it like that instead of simply adding the image to the parent folder from the beginning ... ?

ok. Then use the assets setting in your parent page:

alexhenes wrote:when I do that it opens to a page that lists the one child folder vs. displaying the gallery contents of the child folder. Is there a way to open the contents of the child folder directly from the top level parent?

What do you mean? What does it show when you DONT add the assets setting?

Just because you are assigning an assets setting for the gallery module, doesn't mean it will automatically know that you want to hide subfolders (even though there is only 1). Try setting:

Doesn't look like you have added settings correctly. If you can offer panel login, I can check ...

Better?
http://merelyafleshwound.com/Road-Biking/Utah/

First of all, you forgot that assets path is relative to the content folder, which would require the path assets:6.Road-Biking/1.Utah/1.la-sal-loop (you forgot road-biking segment). You can also ignore the numbers assets:Road-Biking/Utah/la-sal-loop because unlike the image setting which requires an exact path, the assets settings "gets" a page and its assets.

Next up, I noticed an extreme slowness to your server, and couldn't get anything working for a few minutes ... I checked your settings, and you had preload:true, and with your massive structure that is bound to create extreme slowdowns and possible timeouts ... This is why you need to be incredibly cautious about enabling this setting only when you are "done" editing ...

The assets setting is an advanced setting, and we didn't predict anyone would be adopting it this early. Having a nice option like this to inherit "assets" from other galleries- and folders certainly offers some nice functionality, but this setting is not extremely intuitive for now ...

Is this also possible if there are multiple sub-folders to include and not just one?
The reason I want this is because I want to use it as a filter. For example:

Porftolio
----Buisines Photograpy
-------Speciality 1 (for example portraits)
-------Speciality 2 (for example products)
-------Speciality 3 (for example architecture)
-------Etc...
----Photograpy for Individuals
-------Speciality 1
-------Speciality 2
-------Speciality 3
-------Etc...

If somebody clicks on Buisines Photograpy I want to show a random collection of all the pictures inside the subfolders and not just the folders themselves. But if somebody clicks on Speciality it only shows the pictures inside that specific folder/level.

Now I can only make this happen by uploading all the pictures twice. Once into the correct Speciality folder and once tot the Buisines Photograpy folder.

I hope you can help me out with this, thanks!

elpd wrote:If somebody clicks on Buisines Photograpy I want to show a random collection of all the pictures inside the subfolders and not just the folders themselves. But if somebody clicks on Speciality it only shows the pictures inside that specific folder/level.

I would be very careful with mixing folders+images in the same page ... I have yet to see someone set up a page which display images AND albums on the without it becoming confusing.

As for "random collection", what exactly did you have in mind? But yes, you can set your parent folder to read images from a subfolder, but there is no pick-n-mix setting to get "some" photos from "each" subfolder ... I am not sure how we could even make the logic behind a setting like that ...

elpd wrote:Now I can only make this happen by uploading all the pictures twice. Once into the correct Speciality folder and once tot the Buisines Photograpy folder.

Yes, as mentioned, you can get images from a child folder into the parent folder. You can even set a "limit" so to only display a "handful" ... furthermore, you can even choose which images from the subfolder! But as mentioned, you cannot randomly get a bunch of mixed images from all the subfolders.