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#1 2020-05-04 11:12:45
- chumby
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Hero Image - Inseert on page?
Hi Matt,
Just starting to look at BL3. Well done in getting it out.
With the Hero Image feature, does this carry over when you "Insert an album" onto page, or do just the images in the album themselves appear as per BL2?
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#2 2020-05-04 11:29:22
- rod barbee
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Re: Hero Image - Inseert on page?
when in doubt, run a test, I always say 
And my test shows that the Hero image does not come along for the ride, but the space for it does. So you get a background color and the Hero text, if you’ve enabled it. And the album, of course.
For example: https://bl3-test.barbeephoto.com/hero/
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ttg-tips.com, Backlight 2/3 test site
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#3 2020-05-04 11:57:08
Re: Hero Image - Inseert on page?
Well that's not great. Something to fix then. I don't want the hero image to embed.
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#4 2020-05-04 14:04:28
- chumby
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Re: Hero Image - Inseert on page?
Thanks Rod - I would of run a test but don't have BL3 yet. 
Matt - why not a good idea to embed the hero image? Perhaps make it an option?
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#5 2020-05-04 14:33:06
- rod barbee
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Re: Hero Image - Inseert on page?
You don’t have BL3 yet?
Blasphemy!!
Turns out it was a good test to run too!
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#6 2020-05-04 15:02:35
Re: Hero Image - Inseert on page?
The way I think about embedded albums is that they ought to just serve up the image grid, and that the page being embedded into will already have a content area for text, static images, etc.
The embed feature was never meant to be very robust, and it trickier than we'd like it to be. The intent was just to allow people to use an album on their home page, basically.
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#7 2020-05-04 15:59:55
- chumby
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Re: Hero Image - Inseert on page?
Hi Matt,
No worries at all.
Maybe for future releases/consideration then... someway to show "some of the album images" so that if you have an alblum with hundreds of images in it, there is someway you can control how many images are being displayed on your homepage - not all of them through the embed feature.
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Chumby
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#8 2020-05-04 17:03:34
Re: Hero Image - Inseert on page?
I think the new JSON API is likely to supplant the embed. Once things settle down a bit, I'm looking forward to flexing it a bit.
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#9 2020-05-04 19:00:32
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Re: Hero Image - Inseert on page?
Great!
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