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Hi, please help me to get the order of doing things right.
I bought, installed the bundle. Created with Pages my static layout. Copied the content of the Pages webengine to Galleries, and it worked fine. I uploaded the output from Pages to my server and looked at the pages and all works fine. But from here I am stuck.
1) How do I now create several galleries? Am I in LR selecting say 10 images, give the album a name and just click export and then ftp the site again? Am I repeating this with a new set of images? Will these names automatically be linked to Galleries - as I am using this default? Am I doing this with the Galleries webengine?
2) What do I do with with the Autoindex webengine. Do I still need to use it? Do I need to hack and copy the content of Pages over as well? Do I then need to edit, save and export this as well. And at what step in the process?
Sorry to use up your time, but I can't find this in the documentation. Can someone write me a step by step?
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have you seen the beginner tutorials under Courses near the top of the Documents page?
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Of course I have.
I spent hours flipping back and forth through the document and the tutorial. But I only got so far as I described.
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ok. but those courses are step by step so I assumed you didn't see them.
to your first question then. You create image galleries with CE4 Gallery. Export, and upload the entire exported folder to the galleries/ folder, which was part of the Pages installation as outlined here: http://ce4.theturninggate.net/docs/doku … e4_gallery
If you've filled out the Album Info in the Color Palette control pane, the Album Title and Description will appear on the Galleries page along with a representative thumbnail (what appears actually depends on how you've set up the Galleries page)
You'll need to do this with each set of images for which you want to have a gallery. In case you want to add or remove images from this same gallery, be sure to save it so you can come back to it. Look in the upper right corner of the preview area for the Create Saved Web Gallery button.
If you're using Publisher, you would export a gallery and upload it to /ttg-be/templates/gallery and then choose that template when creating albums with Publisher
http://ce4.theturninggate.net/docs/doku … _publisher
2) What do I do with with the Autoindex webengine. Do I still need to use it? Do I need to hack and copy the content of Pages over as well? Do I then need to edit, save and export this as well. And at what step in the process?
The Autoindex has several uses. Using it to create Album Set templates for Publisher in only one. Many people use it to create a second gallery index. For example, a Client galleries page.
If you want it to have the same design you created with Pages, you can copy the template settings using this method:
http://ce4.theturninggate.net/docs/doku … _templates
Do this before adding any text to the Page Copy in the Autoindex, as applying a template will wipe all that out. You then export and upload the entire exported folder to wherever you need it on your site.
If using the above example of a Client page, name the export "clients" and upload the resulting client/ folder to the root of the site.
Watch your naming conventions. folder and file names should contain only letters, numbers, dashes, and underscores. No spaces or special characters.
Rod
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