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Add/Modify Gallery

The interface for entering and editing Gallery are identical.

To add a new Gallery click on New Gallery on the navigation menu.

The interface (Fig. 1) is presented as a list of fields text where the red color highlights the obligation. Each data form presents at the top a series of tabs that let you to interact with a different group of fields data.

Fig. 1: Example for adding a gallery 

The Gallery form consists of the following tabs:
  • Main: it allows you to manage the main field such as title, abstract and the thumbnail parameters (shape and dimension).
  • Images 1,2,3,4,5: it allows you to attach the images to which you can assign a title and a description. Each of these tabs can handle up to a maximum of 10 images for a total of 50 images per gallery.
Before uploading a gallery it is necessary upload all images on the server through the File Manager module.

The most important tab parameters for adding/modifying are the following:
  • Automatic thumbnail size: it defines the maximum image size, both width and height, of the preview image generated for each image in the gallery.
  • Type of automatic thumbnail : there are three types of forms, format square, proportion size and proportion size with board. The first generate a square thumbnail, that means that if you attach a different size image it will be automatically resize in order to obtain a correct form. The second type generates a proportion thumbnail of the image respecting the maximum dimensions of width and height. The last type generate a proportion thumbnail with adding white borders in order to have a perfectly square image preview.
  • Display Method : it allows you to choose the way for displaying the image detail.
The check at the bottom of panel (Fig. 1), show you the images details and the format for viewing preview. Enabling it you will display the thumbnail list with their title and description. Disabling it the thumbnails will be displayed as "checkerboard". 
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