Newbie who is slightly confused

trav.d.hale · 2015-04-28 15:20:22

Hello,

I am slightly confused, and I am hoping someone might be able to clear it up for me.
I recently brought the web publishing package, and have been quite happy with it (I am still in dev mode working everything out).

Anyway, I have my Pages powered site, with Gallery and publisher at: http://www.travishale.com/galleries.php

This works fine, and I can have Gallery Sets and Albums under that as I have done with a number of different categories, however what I would like to do is to have a number of different pages, some linked and others not, as different categories similar to the below:

Home
Info

Galleries - Index
Galleries - Nature - Animals
Galleries - Nature - Animals - Birds
Galleries - Nature - Animals - Macro
Galleries - Nature - Animals - Other
Galleries - Nature - Landscapes
Galleries - Nature - Skyscapes

Galleries - Events - Christmas 2014
Galleries - Events - Fundraiser

Clients Area - Client 1 (Galleries)
Clients Area - Client 2 (Galleries)

Contact

I have a simpler version working at the moment, which is like the below, but what I am not sure about is what i actually need to do to get the AutoIndex working, how many different versions of the Autoindex I essentially need to save, and where I would go about saving them:

Home
About
Info
Galleries - Birds
Galleries - Landscapes & Skyscapes
Galleries - Macros
Contact Us

A second question, and this might be more publisher related, but I would like to have the option of allowing users to download some
photos, or not, from a password protected area (or sometimes not), to do this should I in the AutoIndex template enable the password protection and download and just disable that from the publisher area, or do I need to create multiple templates (e.g. NoPW_NoDL, PW_NoDL,PW_DL)?

Thanks for the clarification .

Last edited by trav.d.hale (2015-04-28 15:23:08)

Matthew · 2015-04-28 15:41:31

Hello, and welcome.

You're already using Publisher with some success, so you must by now be familiar with creating a gallery template. You exported from CE4 Gallery, and you uploaded to /ttg-be/templates/gallery. You then created the album via Publish Services, selected the template, etc.

For Auto Index, it's much the same. Create a generic template in the Web module and export. Upload to /ttg-be/templates/autoindex. In Publish Services, create an Album Set; create galleries inside of that. Or create a child Album Set, going as deep as you like ...

trav.d.hale · 2015-04-28 16:26:45

So does that mean I only need one Auto Index in the ttg-be/templates/autoindex and then from publish i just create a new publish service for each top level, and then either make an album set with galleries, or a child album set etc for each nested level down, so for example:

Publish Service --> Client Area
Client Area --> Album Set (Client 1)
Client Area --> Album Set (Client 2)

Publish Service --> Nature
Nature --> Album Set (Animals)
Nature --> Album Set (Macro)
Nature --> Album Set ... etc

Matthew · 2015-04-28 17:35:12

One auto index template is sufficient, unless you need to differentiate design. Using a single template, you can change text for each album set (titles, description, etc.), and you can password protect the album set and its descendants.

rod barbee · 2015-04-28 21:00:06

...and then from publish i just create a new publish service for each top level, and then either make an album set with galleries, or a child album set etc for each nested level down

If you have one top level for Galleries and one top level for Clients then yes, you'd want to create a separate Publish service for each.

The Clients folder will need to be an exported and uploaded autoindex. Then target that folder with Publisher and start populating it with album sets and albums

And don't forget to add Clients to your navigation for each template and Pages, (assuming you want a Clients navigation item in the nav bar)

trav.d.hale · 2015-04-29 12:50:39

So i am making progress, a bit one step backwards two forwards but it is at least heading in the right direction.
I have set up the auto-index template and put that in the folder, and have the gallery set up as well as the auto-index.

http://www.travishale.com/galleries.php

When i go to that link, it follows a different layout to the auto-index link (e.g. http://www.travishale.com/galleries/sky … nar-events) which is the actual layout I want.

How do i get layout of Autoindex into the gallery / index page so that all albums follow that layout?

Thanks for your help, I feel like I am getting more confident. I even have gallery / auto-index password protection and downloads working, so I have one gallery for no download no password, another for password no download, and another template for password with download.

rod barbee · 2015-04-29 17:23:03

The index on your Galleries page is using the Descriptive layout.
The other is using the Iconic layout.
Normally I'd suggest using the template sharing trick
http://ce4.theturninggate.net/docs/doku … _templates
Between Autoindex and Pages but doing so would wipe out all the text you've added to your pages setup.
So the easiest thing to do is just write down the settings you're using in Autoindex > Appearance and use those same settings in Pages > Appearance > the Autoindex

trav.d.hale · 2015-04-30 08:33:44

Thanks for the tips Rod,

Although I have information in the pages, it is by no means (really) set up and is mainly staging at the moment, so I am happy to start from scratch if needed.

Thanks for the tips around the templates, that points me in the right direction and once I have a base template set up (e.g. Pages?) I can then copy the settings to other templates. I likely did it the wrong way around, but i figure if I do pages, then copy the settings to say AutoIndex, I can then tweak the Autoindex and copy the settings etc to the Gallery or vice versa.

Thanks for all the help!

trav.d.hale · 2015-05-01 16:34:53

That template tip really was a life saver, once I have the base template I was able to copy it between my Pages, AutoIndex and Gallery and I now have a consistently styled site!

Thanks for all your help Rod, and Matthew.
This is a great software package, 5 Stars so far!

trav.d.hale · 2015-05-05 15:58:11

Is there a trick to getting (through the AutoIndex) a Gallery Set image to show up.

I have it set up at the following link: http://www.travishale.com/galleries.php and I have my categories, where two of the categories have sub categories which them have images in them, but the images do not show up in the AutoIndex.

rod barbee · 2015-05-05 21:16:49

See "Selecting the Cover Image" on this page
http://ce4.theturninggate.net/docs/doku … album_sets

trav.d.hale · 2015-05-08 12:57:31

Thanks for the pointer Rod, fixed it up perfectly .

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