Gallery Section issues

Hi Beta Team,

Been loving the beta so far. It is so good!!! I have only run to a few issues so far. Some of it is my issue, just me getting used to how things work. But I did run into below. I want to submit this to see if others have seen this or have been able to get the gallery to work.

ISSUE: I’m unable to add photos to the Gallery Section. Choosing a photo with the choose button only allows you to pick one photo. It also does not show in the gallery. Dragging resources on the gallery does not work either or onto the drop zone. I think this might be covered in another topic and I did not want to double dip. So I deleted this post. but I would like to bring it back up since you asked Dan.

I see you deleted your post, did you manage to get your issue resolved?

Not resolved Dan. I think this was covered in another post. Still an issue though.
I want to test out the Lightbox options in the Gallery. Hence my desire to see this work. :slight_smile:

Hmm, do you have the link so I can post the reply there in public? (this thread is now hidden as you deleted your initial question)

Ahhh, I see you’ve re-instated your post… let me just record a video to show how the Gallery works… hold on.

Here’s a quick video showing how to use the Gallery, and sorry for the terrible sound quality, I was on my laptop!

Let me know if you have any questions after watching it :smiling_face:

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I have to say that after 30 years of daily practice of psychology I have just encountered the most unexpected thing ever. It’s great to be able to drag&drop a directory, but why not a selection of images???

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Worked great Dan! This is solved! Thank you. Love the lightbox! Works good. My site is mostly my artwork so Lightbox is critical. Will we be able to add Lightbox to images in a grid? I made some nice grids with my painting today. Of course they are not galleries but they present things very well. I would love to turn on a lightbox for those images in my grid. maybe some or all?

Thanks much,
Ken

Hi Dan,
Here is an example of a grid I worked on. I would love to lightbox these images. They are just examples of what I might like to be able to do.

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Just chatted to @bon about this and while we want to keep the core components clean and true to their purpose we think lightboxing on the image component would be quite popular with users…

You wouldn’t be able to scroll through the other images in the Lightbox as the Image component doesn’t have any knowledge of the other images around it (that’s why you’d use the Gallery).

With this in mind, would it work for you if we added Lightbox support to the “Image” Component?

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Sure would work for me Dan. Adding it to the image component sounds perfect. I use it just that way with rapid weaver classic and foundry 3.

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I agree a selection of images would be ‘expected behaviour’ but I guess once you know a folder is required it shouldn’t be an issue. I agree with Dan that some sort of UI indication to drop a folder would be a good idea. Being able to drop either a folder or a selection of images would be even better.

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Totally agree (with me too :rofl:). I raised this “pseudo-indignation” because I hope in the upcoming features the possibility to select different types of files for “drag&drop” in the gallery. I obviously think a lot about: images+videos+PDF+SVG (preferably animated, right @MultiThemes :wink:). Anyway here is my list for Santa, hmm @dan for :christmas_tree: :santa: Ah yes… with hover effects and parallax of course :yum:

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The Gallery component currently works with images, video, YouTube and Vimeo url’s (including playlists, it’s magic).

The Resources area in Elements can support all of the formats you mention, so we’d just need to add support to the gallery or build components that made sense for those other types of files (PDF/SVG).

How would you want to display SVG’s and PDF’s - Perhaps you’d want to display SVG logos in a carousel, and the pdf’s as a list of downloadable files…

This is the price of success! The gallery is basically very powerful and it is becoming a tool that I want to push further. Build a gallery with for each box a “header” in the form of an animated SVG, documentation appearing in a lightbox with an animated pdf that turns the pages until we tell it to stop, a carousel that changes appearance with each visit and brings something new each time. I feel that this post is going to be a bit long, sorry. The observation that I make on websites is threefold. First, the “business card” site (we often call it a showcase when it does not have the main function: change), business cards were practical, in the pocket, a name, an address, a telephone number; with smartphones we always have it in our pocket but we do not look at them. Second, the site that seeks to sell; we find everything there and by dint of searching we do not take anything (Amazon Prime Video for example). Thirdly, the site that wants to be unique, not like the others, innovative, singular, and where we give up because we don’t understand anything. I am exaggerating and caricaturing deliberately. Here, with this basic gallery in Elements, I see the light (no, don’t go towards the light), the possibility on a single page to interest the visitor and make him come back if only to have fun. It seems crazy said like that but just as I think that today’s blog is written sitting on your couch with your iPad, I also think that the structures of websites have become tiring despite their number and diversity. A quick look at Relume or WordPress and we have the impression of an infinity of possibilities. We approach, we study why we want such a site, what we expect from the visitor, what we want to offer him and we end up with three, or even four structures at the most. So it is on the presentation that we can really make the difference. But what is presented must change each time, not necessarily the product but what will present it. Well I’ll stop there for a Sunday morning, I’m in great shape. I hope I have correctly expressed my thoughts and all the interest that I see in this gallery which seemed to be… a gallery. Cheers

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