I intend to use Image Browser to insert images that are already uploaded and organized within galleries. My galleries are nodes and the images are stored within multi-value ImageFields inside.

If I use the default view provided with this module, I will see all images in all galleries every time I invoke the browser dialog. If if I have tens of galleries with tens/hundreds of images inside each, I will have to page through hundreds/thousands of images every time I use Image Browser. Obviously for large number of images this is far from the optimal solution, so my question is: is there a way to confugure the browser view so that I get the following functionality:
1) The first time Image Browser is called, it shows only a list of galleries (presented, say by a thumbnail each)
2) Users browse through the galleries and eventually click on one
3) A thumbnail grid of images will show only for the selected gallery
4) Users click on one image and it gets inserted

So far Image browser has items 3 and 4 without any restrictions. How can I add steps 1 and 2?

Thanks!

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Have you looked at the View that generates the Image Browser pop-up window?

In that view you can add Taxonomy as a Filter and chose the number of levels and the Terms (or Galleries) that are displayed.

When using the Image Browser feature to select from images already on the server, there is a button on the right hand side that says Filter. Clicking this will give you the Taxonomy Terms (Galleries) in a drop-down list or an auto-complete field.

I don't know how to make this appear prior to the 1st page loading of thumbnail images though.