Tweet
Gallery are a new top-level channel type centered around photos. Gallery acts like site-wide photo albums and allow members to share images. Sub-channels will inherit properties designed to highlight your members' image uploads.
All the features of photo galleries are available for each topic within gallery. These include the light-box carousel, each image allowing a title and description, and image re-ordering when creating a post.
Galleries are channels with specialized permissions on creation. At the base level Gallery Channels look and behave like Forum Channels. They have these changes applied:
Within the Gallery all images will be shown as Cards using the CSS Grid layout. This will adjust to the available space of the device or browser. Clicking on any image thumbnail will open the channel in the standard light-box so members can view the image in more detail. Clicking on an image in the light-box will open it at full size.
Uploading Images
The system will use the standard Photo Gallery content type. Members can add images from their local device or from images they have uploaded to previous posts. Only images are allowed to be added to the Gallery Topics.
Searching your Galleries
Images are not indexed for keywords. To allow your galleries to be searched, we encourage members to add a title and description to each image they upload in a new topic. This information can be added after uploading the images. Members can also add optional text to describe their new topic like any standard post.
Rearranging Images.
After uploading images can be dragged to new locations within the editing interface. This can be useful if you want images in a specific order but they finish uploading in the incorrect order. Simply click or tap on an image and hold. Then you can drag it to its new location.
- The default content type will be the Photo Gallery content type.
- Members will have an attachment limit of twenty images per post, instead of the five images allowed elsewhere.
- A navigation bar item will be added automatically.
- The Gallery view uses the Card View.
- Children of the Gallery will default to the Photos tab to show images.
- Photos are shown using a flexible card view when viewing the Gallery.
All the features of photo galleries are available for each topic within gallery. These include the light-box carousel, each image allowing a title and description, and image re-ordering when creating a post.
Galleries are channels with specialized permissions on creation. At the base level Gallery Channels look and behave like Forum Channels. They have these changes applied:
- Galleries also have their own navigation tab by default.
- Galleries are configured to only allow Photo Gallery content to be created. All other content types are disabled by default.
- The channel view defaults to the Photos tab to show the images of the gallery.
- Accessible to all users. Galleries provide global photo albums that allow users to share their images.
Within the Gallery all images will be shown as Cards using the CSS Grid layout. This will adjust to the available space of the device or browser. Clicking on any image thumbnail will open the channel in the standard light-box so members can view the image in more detail. Clicking on an image in the light-box will open it at full size.
Uploading Images
The system will use the standard Photo Gallery content type. Members can add images from their local device or from images they have uploaded to previous posts. Only images are allowed to be added to the Gallery Topics.
Searching your Galleries
Images are not indexed for keywords. To allow your galleries to be searched, we encourage members to add a title and description to each image they upload in a new topic. This information can be added after uploading the images. Members can also add optional text to describe their new topic like any standard post.
Rearranging Images.
After uploading images can be dragged to new locations within the editing interface. This can be useful if you want images in a specific order but they finish uploading in the incorrect order. Simply click or tap on an image and hold. Then you can drag it to its new location.