Re: Photo gallery doesn't show any images
Posted by GregChapman on Jul 28, 2016; 9:49am
URL: https://support.nabble.com/Photo-gallery-doesn-t-show-any-images-tp7596970p7596974.html
Hi Tom,
As you see the Gallery app is just another form of forum/blog/board etc. As with all the other apps the only difference is the presentation. In this case it assumes they'll be an image present and displays the post in a particular way. While it is designed for images, you can just as easily post long text posts there. The "News" app is much the same. It will take the first image in a post and display that in a particular way.
For an example of a working gallery take a look at:
http://www.seahawk17.org.uk/forum.htm
The main app is "Mixed". Most sub-forums are "Forum" but the area labelled "Gallery" is just that. I was surprised to see the "filmstrip" format on that example. I have no idea in which other apps that format is applied.
Within the gallery itself you'll see that it is missing the blog-style sidebar. I believe you can get that effect at your root app and going to:
Options > Application > Change appearance > Preferences > Page layout > Narrow
but that has other effects in other apps. In my case I recall that I tweaked the NAML to remove the sidebar. I also removed the "Reply" permission, to make sure users don't start making replies there, so some of the normal links will be missing. I can't recall what other changes I made.
My test forum which is a "Forum" also has a "Gallery" sub-forum, but this displays as a conventional sub-forum folder icon. I just checked and in my test forum I tweaked the macro "view_gallery_page" to remove the sidebar and the "gallery_table_row" macro to display five images per row instead of the default three. If you adjust window width so it shows less than five you'll get gaps in the display. I can't remember what else I may have done to change from the defaults - but it seems I may have introduced an error somewhere according to a warning in the editor.
URL: https://support.nabble.com/Photo-gallery-doesn-t-show-any-images-tp7596970p7596974.html
Hi Tom,
That's strange. An "Insert image" button does appear in my galleries. Here's what I see in my test forum:
As you see the Gallery app is just another form of forum/blog/board etc. As with all the other apps the only difference is the presentation. In this case it assumes they'll be an image present and displays the post in a particular way. While it is designed for images, you can just as easily post long text posts there. The "News" app is much the same. It will take the first image in a post and display that in a particular way.
For an example of a working gallery take a look at:
http://www.seahawk17.org.uk/forum.htm
The main app is "Mixed". Most sub-forums are "Forum" but the area labelled "Gallery" is just that. I was surprised to see the "filmstrip" format on that example. I have no idea in which other apps that format is applied.
Within the gallery itself you'll see that it is missing the blog-style sidebar. I believe you can get that effect at your root app and going to:
Options > Application > Change appearance > Preferences > Page layout > Narrow
but that has other effects in other apps. In my case I recall that I tweaked the NAML to remove the sidebar. I also removed the "Reply" permission, to make sure users don't start making replies there, so some of the normal links will be missing. I can't recall what other changes I made.
My test forum which is a "Forum" also has a "Gallery" sub-forum, but this displays as a conventional sub-forum folder icon. I just checked and in my test forum I tweaked the macro "view_gallery_page" to remove the sidebar and the "gallery_table_row" macro to display five images per row instead of the default three. If you adjust window width so it shows less than five you'll get gaps in the display. I can't remember what else I may have done to change from the defaults - but it seems I may have introduced an error somewhere according to a warning in the editor.
All I can say is it would seem your app is not behaving normally. There should be an "insert image" button on the posting page.
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