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#1 2015-04-07 06:26:46
- MichaelS
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A number of difficulties with TTG CE4 Publish Plug-in
I am running the latest CE4 plug-ins in Lightroom (5.7.1) on two Macs (OSX10.7.5 and 10.10.2) and testing out their results on a Localhost (MAMP Pro3.1) on each machine. I have two difficulties with the Gallery and Client Response Gallery when using the Publish plug-in (these difficulties also show up when I Export the results of these two directly into the Galleries folders) that I simply cannot get to work no matter how much I use trial-and-error methods with the settings within these two plug-ins in LR. Both CE4 plug-ins work (either through Publisher or directly to Galleries) in so far as I get Albums under the Galleries tab of my Localhost website but the "Grid" media content seems to overwrite the "Block" text content during the Magnific Popup slide show so that no text shows up.
In the case of my CRG difficulty, the Published result (or Exported result) only looks like a Gallery and not a CRG Gallery (i.e., no response icons on the image thumbnails and no black bar on the top of the web page with email and other options). The response icons and black bar options do show up inside of LR during development in the LR>Web>CE4ClientResponseGallery work area.
Not sure how to proceed. Any suggestions would be welcome.
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#2 2015-04-07 07:21:22
- rod barbee
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Re: A number of difficulties with TTG CE4 Publish Plug-in
hard to tell without seeing anything. Any chance you can put some stuff online? Otherwise there's not much help we can offer.
I can say that it all works for me in my WAMP test bed
I'm assuming you're using the latest versions of Publisher, TTG-BE, and CRG? (and you've installed ttg-be?)
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#3 2015-04-07 14:06:42
- Ben
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Re: A number of difficulties with TTG CE4 Publish Plug-in
This shouldn't be related to MAMP - I develop the cart, publisher and CRG on a Mac using MAMP.
Double-click the album in the publish services, navigate to the 'Integration' tab and see whether Enable Feedback is selected.
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#4 2015-04-08 12:27:16
- MichaelS
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Re: A number of difficulties with TTG CE4 Publish Plug-in
Ben:
Thanks. That was it. The Enable Feedback setting made the entire CRG options visible on each thumbnail as well as in the black bar on top of the Album's page. The solution to the first problem (the text content of the 'Block' not appearing above the sequence of Album thumbnails) will probably be solved by increasing the upper boundary of the 'Grid' so that it gives more space for the 'Block' text to appear. I'll keep trial-and-error experimenting until this content appears (the text is something like 'Click on any image in this Album to see a slide show'). Right now this problem exists on both a Gallery Album page and a CRG Album page.
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#5 2015-04-08 12:51:22
- rod barbee
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Re: A number of difficulties with TTG CE4 Publish Plug-in
In albums, block text needs to be entered in the Content tab of the Create/Edit Album dialog
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#6 2015-04-08 21:53:53
- MichaelS
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Re: A number of difficulties with TTG CE4 Publish Plug-in
Rod:
Thanks for the feedback. I entered the text 'Click any thumbnail image of this Album to see a Slide Show' in the Content/Description tab of the Color Palette panel within the CE4 Gallery plug-in. This text does show up in LR while developing it in the Web module. This text does not show up on the final website. I put together a bare minimum example of this on the following web URL: http://michaeljohnstreibelphotography.c … /index.php
I wonder if I'm not giving enough Top/Bottom margins, borders, or padding to either the 'Block' or the 'Grid'? The Content/Description 'Block' has the following pixel dimensions (from Margin top to Border Right): 0,8, 20,0,4,4, 0,0,0,0. The Gallery/Media Area 'Grid' has 20,8, 0,0,4,4 0,0,0,0. I've tried many variations of these to see what works if this is actually the solution.
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#7 2015-04-08 22:07:06
- rod barbee
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Re: A number of difficulties with TTG CE4 Publish Plug-in
text you place in the template will not automatically show up in the album.
You need to enter text in the Content tab of the Create/Edit Album dialog (from Publisher).
Use the options in the Content Tab when you create or edit the album to insert the template text or add text to the Page Copy field. If using the Page Copy field, it's often easier to write it first in a text editor and paste it in
Rod
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#8 2015-04-09 03:19:46
- MichaelS
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Re: A number of difficulties with TTG CE4 Publish Plug-in
Rod:
Thanks for being so patient and generous with your time. It works.
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