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Thanks again Rod.
I seem to learn how to do this only after I've done it...
John
Well, just to make matters more complicated...
The template I want to use for the nested galleries is CE4 Stage (using the reel panorama display). Is this possible?
Using Publisher, would I prepare by uploading both the Stage template and the Auto Index template into /ttg-be/templates/autoindex/ or am I not following the logic of how to use Auto Index?
Sorry if I'm being obtuse about this...
John
P.S. what I'm really trying to do is to work around the fact that the Stage reel panorama module stacks multiple panos vertically on one page. To avoid this I'm making each pano a separate gallery. Then to avoid cluttering my main galleries page, I want a single pano "gallery" link to load another page with just the panorama galleries.
If you're using Publisher that's where you'd start. Except...-- OK, got it. Now to try to make it work...
Tx,
John
Hi Rod,
OK, I will look at the auto-launch option. Thanks.
On this one --
Yep, use autoindex to create sub-indexes inside of other indexes. The Galleries page is an index so you can place autoindexes inside of the galleries/ folder and galleries, or even more autoindexes, inside that autoindex folder.
-- are you referring to placing auto index(es) inside the galleries folder inside TTG BE's Templates folder? (using Publisher)
Thanks again,
John
Is it possible to build a gallery template that behaves slightly differently?
As it works now, clicking on the Galleries link from the home page loads a page which shows a list of galleries. Then clicking on one of those galleries loads a page showing thumbnails of all the images in the gallery, and you must click on one of the thumbnails to load the single image view.
Is there any way to change this so that clicking on the thumbnail/name of the gallery goes directly to the single image view, bypassing the page of image thumbnails? (I suspect not, but thought I'd ask anyway)
I'm probably going to have to investigate whether image galleries can be nested, too - but that's a separate question...
Thanks,
John
Hi Rod,
Wow, what a great, lightning-quick reply. I'll dig into this later tonite. Thanks a bunch.
John
I'm having some issues with Publisher galleries using templates created with CE4 Gallery. I want the images to display showing metadata from the Title field only, so I unchecked the Captions box when I created the Gallery templates. But once online, the images display Title, Caption, and if the Caption was empty, the filename as well!
This is way more than I want displayed. The templates seem to be functioning perfectly otherwise, so I think they are installed & configured correctly. Did I miss another setting somewhere? Could the Auto Index template be interfering with what I thought I set up in Gallery?
Examples to be found by going to jwlimages-dot-com-slash-Art (spelled out), then Galleries link, choose one & go to individual image view.
BTW, thanks again to Rod for helping me get this far.
John
Thanks again, Rod. Very helpful info. Will look at using images as links in the block (have to learn Markdown!), but it's good to have a fall-back just using menus from Stage.
Now I'm back to work!
John
Hi Rod,
Hope I'm not being obtuse, but more questions...
When you say
If using Stage, you can include the images and text using html in the blockdo you mean just entering the html code in the "Content/Description" area of the Color Palette pane? So I would build a Home Page with Stage, not include any images (sad to have to relinquish the Galleria slideshow), and the html would spec the images & text for link. Is this correct?
(Also I'm a bit confused by the fact that I can use Stage to build a page that shows navigation links - at least in the LR preview anyway. Could I simply build a home page that way & use the nav links to redirect to the Pages Home & Galleries in the subdomains? Or is there some downside there that I'm unaware of?)
Also, using this approach - having a TTG Stage Home at my main domain, then 2 more Pages gallery sites, each in a different subdomain - will I need to do a full install of PHP plugins & TTG BE in all three places? Or should I install them one time only & just spell out full address/location for the sites in the subdomains (i.e., do these need to be in same directories as the web site content pages)?
Thanks for your guidance!
John
Great, this gives me something to work on. Sounds like you're saying put the entry page on/in my main domain, then do the two branches in two separate subdomains.
If using Stage, you can include the images and text using html in the block.
-- OK, will start trying to learn how to do that. :-)
Thanks a lot, Rod.
John
I just got the Publish web bundle to go along with Stage. I am learning, slowly it seems, and have built a test site fairly successfully. But I have a question that I can't find answered in TTG's docs or this forum:
I would like to "bifurcate" my web site - from the home page, use the navigation links to split off into two directions, "commercial" vs. "fine art/personal". Whichever choice is made, the user would be directed to what looks like a complete web site, with nav links to galleries, info, about & contact pages, etc.
What is the best way to accomplish this? I suppose one option would be to add a navigation link in my Pages site to go to a completely separate Pages site in a subdomain (and be sure to add a way to get back to the main site). But before I start trying to figure out how to do that, I'm wondering if there is a less complicated solution.
Of course, if this sounds like a bad idea, please let me know why!
Thanks,
John