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A start page with thumbnails that link to sub-galleries?
Posted: 15 May 2011, 05:22
by julesxl
I’m new to this forum, but I did look to see if anyone else had the same question. And there were a few similar posts but I wasn’t able to follow through. I’d like to accomplish the following:
Rather than having a slideshow or photoblinds on my start page, I’d like to present the visitors with a set of thumbnails that link to respective sub-galleries. The setup is analogous to the gallery menu, except it’s bound to the start page. I’ve gotten as far as
-creating an invisible start folder with thumbnail images
-adding a link attribute to images in Gallery Settings and then inserting relative/full URLs in the Links window for every image
This didn't work and the thumbs linked to their respective images rather than sub-gall pages and I wound up with another folder that functioned just like one of my sub-galleries. Could someone please provide a 1-2-3 roadmap to working through this? Thanks.
Re: A start page with thumbnails that link to sub-galleries?
Posted: 15 May 2011, 09:51
by Nick
I believe you need to change also Settings > Thumbnails > Thumbnail > Click > Link
Re: A start page with thumbnails that link to sub-galleries?
Posted: 15 May 2011, 11:38
by Martin
julesxl wrote:Rather than having a slideshow or photoblinds on my start page, I’d like to present the visitors with a set of thumbnails that link to respective sub-galleries.
That is exactly what I have done... you can take a look at my site by clicking on my signature below.
Here is some info:
https://forum.photo.gallery/viewtopic.p ... 729#p24729
And some more info about the multi-lingual aspects of my site:
https://forum.photo.gallery/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=6888
Re: A start page with thumbnails that link to sub-galleries?
Posted: 15 May 2011, 19:32
by julesxl
Thanks a lot for the prompt response. Everything worked out. One more question, can make the thumbnails larger only on the start page and, if yes, how? Thanks again.
I'd like to summarize what I've done for the next person looking for the same thing:
1. Load all the thumbnail images into the start folder and make sure Use as 'Folder' is selected.
2.Go to Settings>Settings>Attributes and check 'link'
3. Go to Settings > Thumbnails > Thumbnail > Click and chose 'Link'
4.Return to your start folder, navigate to each of the images which will now have a Link window. Assign the desired URL.
To get the thumbnails to open in the same window rather than a new one, append *_self to each URL. For example, if the thumbnail leads to a gallery called France, your link would look like #/content/France*_self. Also, I find that full URLs (
http://www.yoursite.com/gallery/#/content/France*_self) work just as well.
Re: A start page with thumbnails that link to sub-galleries?
Posted: 15 May 2011, 23:42
by Martin
The *_self is not necessary when one only links to #/content/France
Re: A start page with thumbnails that link to sub-galleries?
Posted: 16 May 2011, 02:53
by mjau-mjau
julesxl wrote:Thanks a lot for the prompt response. Everything worked out. One more question, can make the thumbnails larger only on the start page and, if yes, how? Thanks again.
Navigate to your start page folder, and click the "Thumbs" button on the top right of the page. You will see this:
More info:
https://www.photo.gallery/documentation/create-thumbnails/
Re: A start page with thumbnails that link to sub-galleries?
Posted: 16 May 2011, 03:32
by julesxl
Thanks for responding. I noticed the thumb feature in the folder settings before, but I though it might make a global change - apparently not
After switching to 200X200, I still got the default 100X100 thumbs except with more space between them. Any ideas? Also is there a way to access a thumb's x/y values and position it relative to top left corner of a page? Thanks again.
Re: A start page with thumbnails that link to sub-galleries?
Posted: 16 May 2011, 09:45
by mjau-mjau
julesxl wrote:Thanks for responding. I noticed the thumb feature in the folder settings before, but I though it might make a global change - apparently not
After switching to 200X200, I still got the default 100X100 thumbs except with more space between them. Any ideas? Also is there a way to access a thumb's x/y values and position it relative to top left corner of a page? Thanks again.
Empty/delete your browser cache, and you will see the change ...
You can not change thumbnails x/y values unfortunately. This is all calculated based on thumbnails-size, thumbnails-margins, amount of thumbs, users screen dimension ... You can't just move it around like that.
Re: A start page with thumbnails that link to sub-galleries?
Posted: 09 Jun 2011, 07:10
by tschortsch
Hey, this works like a charm!
I would like to get rid off the title and description above the thumbnails only in the start page. I know I can do this in thumbnails.thumbnails.text but this would be a global setting, right?!
Does anybody know the folder paramter? I have seen it at mabro's gallery.
Thanks a lot in advance!
Re: A start page with thumbnails that link to sub-galleries?
Posted: 09 Jun 2011, 07:36
by Martin
schurdinand wrote:I would like to get rid off the title and description above the thumbnails only in the start page. I know I can do this in thumbnails.thumbnails.text but this would be a global setting, right?!
Does anybody know the folder paramter? I have seen it at mabro's gallery.
Yes, I know
The folder parameter is:
thumbnails.thumbnails.text=
Re: A start page with thumbnails that link to sub-galleries?
Posted: 09 Jun 2011, 07:56
by tschortsch
Wow, thank you for your fast response!
So I guess, I cannot only disable the title, right? I would like to leave the description field for a fullscreen link..
Re: A start page with thumbnails that link to sub-galleries?
Posted: 09 Jun 2011, 08:10
by Martin
schurdinand wrote:So I guess, I cannot only disable the title, right? I would like to leave the description field for a fullscreen link..
You can make your own variations:
thumbnails.thumbnails.text=breadcrumbs,pagecount,title,description
or
thumbnails.thumbnails.text=breadcrumbs,description
or
thumbnails.thumbnails.text=pagecount,title
etc...
Re: A start page with thumbnails that link to sub-galleries?
Posted: 09 Jun 2011, 08:21
by tschortsch
Thanks a lot! This is really great!
I think I understand this parameter stuff now..
Re: A start page with thumbnails that link to sub-galleries?
Posted: 09 Jun 2011, 08:36
by Martin
schurdinand wrote:I think I understand this parameter stuff now..
You have to understand that some folderparameters are filled as arrays, like the one mentioned above... others can be true of false (checked or unchecked), like 'controls.maincontrols.enabled=false'... and others can be text or numbers...
Re: A start page with thumbnails that link to sub-galleries?
Posted: 09 Jun 2011, 16:11
by julesxl
Hey Martin,
A question for you: I noticed your gallery allows visitors to swap between the last viewed photo and the the gallery to which that photo belongs. I've added a screenshot of buttons you implemented to better convey what I mean. Would you mind explaining how you accomplished that?
Thanks.