Drupal Gallery Revisited - Using Single Nodes as Galleries

[bart2019]

This is probably a silly question... Can you move the "add comments" to below the gallery block, instead of above as in this video?

[spxero]

@bart2019 I believe there are two pretty easy ways to do this- the first is to put it in your theme. You can find more info at this page- node/48816 ( put drupal.[org]/ in front of that)

The second option is to add a CCK field that pulls a view- project/viewfield (put drupal.[org]/ in front of that)

Let me know if you want me to do a video over this, I think it is a very interesting challenge.

[new2lw]

Specifically, I can't seem to get what you do at 5:40 to work in drupal 7 >.<

[spxero]

@new2lw In Drupal 6's Views, there is an option to "Group Multiple Values". Uncheck this and they will not be grouped together in the view. I haven't verified if this is or isn't in Drupal 7 yet. It won't let me link, but I'll send you a screenshot of what I am talking about.

[new2lw]

I just switched web hosts and am trying to set up a gallery like this again. All the modules except "views" are now integrated into drupal 7 core, problem is the image field module won't "ungroup" in views and only line up straight verticle. The only workaround I've found is to make a separate gallery page for each image, only adding one to the menu, views of course gathering all image field images and sorting them into the one block. The new drupal also colors the grid slightly different.

[new2lw]

Can't figure out how to separate the fields, as I add more images drupal seems to group them into the field that I added. Another workaround might be to just add another field in the content type every time I want to add an image, but these work arounds are a bit long winded. If anyone that has knows what I might be doing wrong it'd be cool to hear it. I like this technique quite a bit but looks like I'm going to have to get some sort of gallery module.

[spxero]

@new2lw Are you still having trouble with this?

When you say you are adding more images and drupal groups them, are you adding into the same CCK field or into a new CCK field? I mean, if your CCK field is photo_picture, are you adding pictures to photo_picture or creating a new CCK field like photo_picture2?

If you have any more questions send them to @drupalguyintexas . I'm trying to filter all my newer videos through that page instead of this one. Thanks!

[thecellcard]

i not complete with this video. can you create other one? i try to do through this video and until when i view content then is not show the images. i don't know what happened?

i hope you understand brother.

Thanks

[spxero]

@thecellcard If I understand you correctly, you may need to make sure your blocks are showing on the correct page. What this does is create a view of images, save them as a block, then disable images from showing on the node and instead show this view. Does that make sense?

[HighDefShooter]

YOu Rock Bro... There is two things that people really want on a content website, Video displays with playlist like mediafront and photo galleries. Thanks for the great video!

[new2lw]

what modules are you running and what module parts do you have enabled for cck??

[spxero]

@new2lw I haven't gone back through the video, but the standard ones I use for image galleries are:

ImageAPI: Required for images

ImageCache: Making different sizes

ImageField & FileField: images for CCK

CCK: To add fields to a node type

Views: To display pictures in different arrangements

For CCK, all you need are CCK, ImageField, and FileField. But I usually enable text, options, etc. as well.

[spxero]

@rpatros You are absolutely correct. I really should make another video dealing with block layouts and sections, because those will tie in well with this.

[dutchwebpromotion]

Thanks for this great explanation. I'm learning a lot about Drupal in general.

[spxero]

@dutchwebpromotion Glad to help- let me know if there is anything else you want to see!

[GezondheidAanpakken]

Wow, amazing! Thanks for posting this video. This looks very promising. I'm going to try this out right now... OK, it worked! My gallery is now up and running.

I have a question. I would like to add cck fields (like photo title) to the photo file field. So when you click on add another item a new file fields renders WITH a textfield for the title. So... how do I group cck fields?

[spxero]

@GezondheidAanpakken - There is an option to add title text to each photo that you add to the site. When you upload the image, the title text shows to the right of the image. To call that back in our "gallery", we just adjust the CCK view to display the image title instead of the gallery title.

I'll create a video in a minute to explain it.