Posted by iaguilardavid on June 29, 2017 at 5:03pm
Hello friends
I'm recently using drupal. I have a consultation and I hope they can help me
I have created photo galleries and they are all grouped into a kind of galleries container.
How can I create a new gallery container?
For example, I need to have several galleries in a container called 2016 and other galleries in a container called 2017.
I only have one galleries container by default.
Thanks for the support.
IVAN
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It all depends on how you do
It all depends on how you do your galleries and what the gallery container is based on. I use the Juicebox module for my galleries. I have a content type of "Juicebox gallery" that is loosely based on the standard article content type with some "extra" fields. Each gallery is an instance of that content type. Each gallery has a user defined (meaningfully named) url. I have tags assigned to each gallery so I can group by tags (thus creating containers. With the urls it's easy to assign galleries to menus and then order the menus as I want. It's also easy to assign menus (and thus groups of galleries) to top level tabs in the site. I also added a field called "order by" to the gallery content type. That way I can use views to select groups of galleries by type (tag) and order them. I even added a "representative image" field to the gallery type, that way the "menu" created through views can display an image for the user to click on to see the whole gallery.
Between letting you define your own content type and using views and menus Drupal gives you almost limitless ways to do this.
Dear Frank I'll try with your
Dear Frank
I'll try with your suggestions. I will install the "juicebox" module. I'll let you know if everything is ok.
Thank you very much.
While my "workflow" is far
While my "workflow" is far from the only way to approach this, and may even not be optimal, here are a few notes:
1. I use the PC Juicebox product to prepare my Galleries on my PC. The images are managed in Lightbox and prepared there (raw files to JPGs, inclusion of captions etc.) before using Juicebox to create the galleries.
2. I use FTP to move completed Galleries to my web site. I use Beyond Compare's FTP capabilities because it lets me synch directories between the PC area and the web site.
3. Embed instructions are on the Juicebox.net site as well as helpful discussions re. Drupal in their forums. There is also helpful info. in the Drupal.org Juicebox issues queue. Once I create one instance of the Juicebox Gallery content type on my site, creating more is basically a cookie cutter approach ... copying, pasting and modifying from one working instance to the content type to the next one.
On my site (fkelly.org) the home page shows a menu driven set of Galleries. If you look at the tab named sculpt and print, you'll see a views driven "menu" with some of the extra features I mentioned in my earlier post.