Views Gallery Module -------------------- This module pulls together the techniques Jeff Eaton outlined in http://www.lullabot.com/articles/photo-galleries-views-attach to automatically create a simple gallery where each gallery is a node with an embedded view of images that were assigned to that gallery. The module creates the content types, sets up the imagecache presets, creates the default gallery view that is embedded into the gallery nodes by Views Attach, and adds css to make it all look nice. This technique also works well to create individual image galleries for Organic Groups, since the gallery and image content types can be configured as group nodes. Views Gallery OG, included in this package, provides a setup page to make it easy to automatically create a gallery for every group and adds group context to the forms wherever possible so the right groups and group galleries are pre-selected when you create gallery images. The following modules provide the nuts and bolts for this to work. It is a long list of modules, but there is little or nothing you need to do except make sure the latest versions of all these modules are available when you install Views Gallery and everything will be installed and configured for you. Plus, most of them are modules you will probably use elsewhere. * CCK (http://drupal.org/project/cck) * Views (http://drupal.org/project/views) * Views Attach (http://drupal.org/project/views_attach) * Nodereference URL (http://drupal.org/project/nodereference_url) * Filefield (http://drupal.org/project/filefield) * Imagefield (http://drupal.org/project/imagefield) * ImageAPI (http://drupal.org/project/imageapi) * Imagecache (http://drupal.org/project/imagecache) If the Custom Pagers (http://drupal.org/project/custom_pagers) module is enabled, back/next links will be added to the image nodes. If the Lightbox2 (http://drupal.org/project/lightbox2) module is enabled, a 'View Slideshow' link will be added to the gallery view, which will bring up a lightshow of the gallery images. If the Views Slideshow module (http://drupal.org/project/views_slideshow, version 6.2) is enabled, a Views Slideshow block is added to the default view. This module has been sponsored by Buzzr (http://buzzr.com/). Installation ------------ Chekc the module's requirements, download the 'views_gallery' module and enable it. You should not have to do anything, it will create the content types and views and an initial gallery node for you and configure everything else that needs to be done. The following content types will be created by the module: * The following views will be created by the module: * The following initial gallery node will be created by the module: * Configuration ------------- The module can be configured through Admin -> Setting -> Views Gallery (./admin/settings/views_gallery). On this page you can choose a Views Gallery Gallery Type and a Views Gallery Image Type. Upgrading instructions ---------------------- This module is fully compatible with the approach shown in Jeffs screencast (is it?). Just select the image content type and the gallery view you created manually, and the module will take over from here. (would this work?) More documentation ------------------ A handbook page for the module is available at (...). To understand what you can accomplish with Node-based galleries with CCK and Views, you can have a look at Jeff Eatons screencast at Lullabot: http://www.lullabot.com/articles/photo-galleries-views-attach This screencast has been partially transcribed as an (incomplete) Howto: http://drupal.org/node/599672 The screencast and the Howto will give you a basic understand what's going on under the hood if you install the 'views_gallery' module. Troubleshooting --------------- If the module behaves unexpectd, please check first the Drupal status report at Admin -> Reports -> Status (./admin/reports/status). (...) Author and Copyright -------------------- Author: Karen Stevenson For further copyright information please see the included LICENSE.txt.