how can i create childgalleries?

hi!

how can i create childgalleries?

i’ve created all the folders and adjusted all paths in the script.
when i call the snippet like this


it doesn’t work - i get the following error


it works with every other &display-value (embedded,...).

what can be the problem?
any tutorials out there which describe how to make childgalleries with maxiygallery?

ps:
modxcmd 0.9.5
maxygallery 0.5 Beta2 Rev 49

You create childgalleries like this:

Site root
|
|-Gallery [!MaxiGallery? &display=`childgalleries`!]
| |
| |- Dogs [!MaxiGallery!]
| |- Cats [!MaxiGallery!]
| |- People [!MaxiGallery!]
|

And when you then go to the Gallery document, it lists all the child galleries (Docs, Cats, People).

Hello. I need to do this as well and I am unsure of what exactly you mean... I need to place icons on the main gallery page to categorize the work we’ve done. When people click on an icon it takes them to a gallery of work in that category. This is a, I am assuming, childgallery thing but what confuses me is, how do I do what I just mentioned and then how would I specify to which gallery to upload the images?

Quote from: DzynLabJW at Feb 19, 2007, 11:23 AM

Hello. I need to do this as well and I am unsure of what exactly you mean... I need to place icons on the main gallery page to categorize the work we’ve done. When people click on an icon it takes them to a gallery of work in that category. This is a, I am assuming, childgallery thing but what confuses me is, how do I do what I just mentioned and then how would I specify to which gallery to upload the images?

The simplest to do that would be to create a image TV for the gallery documents that holds the icon, then use Ditto to list the child documents on the container document and show your icon.

Quote from: doze at Feb 19, 2007, 11:29 AM

The simplest to do that would be to create a image TV for the gallery documents that holds the icon, then use Ditto to list the child documents on the container document and show your icon.

sorry, but i have no clue how to do that.
creating an image-TV just gives me the ability to insert an image (which doesn’t work - just see a stupid image-path).
it would make more sense to me, to use maxigallerysolo to show the icon. -

then use Ditto to list the child documents on the container document and show your icon.

but i thought that [!MaxiGallery? &display=`childgalleries`!] outputs some random-pics as gallery-folder-icons.

i do understand the first way (container with child-docs) - but i don’t want to create sub-pages for every gallery - at least not manually.

First, There is two issues discussed in this topic.

1. How to make childgalleries display (I answered that in my first post to this thread)
2. How to show childgalleries and a "custom icon" for each child gallery (I answered that in my second post to this thread)

Second, If you don’t want the create the galleries in child documents to some container, I don’t know why you are asking how to show childgalleries as there would be no childs to show..

create a image TV for the gallery documents that holds the icon

don’t understand this

question) maxigallery with &display`childgalleries` DOES NOT generate custom icons from sub-gals per default, so i have to map a TV-var of type "image"? now i just have to look up, how to fill a TV dynamically...

ergo, i need to generate the "subgallery-list" with ditto, because i want to show a custom icon.

as of the information i’ve learned in this topic i would do it liek this:
1) for every sub-gallery i have to add a sub-document to e.g. the "gallery"-container. insert there [[maxigallery? whateva]]
2) in the "gallery"-container i generate the sub-gal-list with ditto and a image-TV(how to fetch a thumbnail from maxigallery into a image-TV??) - i don’t/cannot use [[maxigallery? &display=`childgalleries`]] as i want that custom icon

is that correct? (at least basically)

What do you mean by "custom icon" for the gallery? is the image in the gallery? if it is, then you can use childgalleries display mode. If the "custom icon" is some picture that is not in the gallery you’d need to do a TV to the template that you use in your gallery documents and use Ditto to list the galleries.

I didn’t understand this too:
Quote from: tcsoft at Feb 19, 2007, 01:06 PM

1) for every sub-gallery i have to add a sub-document to e.g. the "gallery"-container. insert there [[maxigallery? whateva]]

Why you need to do sub-document to sub-gallery etc? why not just one gallery container document and all galleries as child documents..? or do will you have many different groups?

@doze
thanks, i’ve tried it out like you said it in your first post!! it works *THUMBS UP*

what i have now is

site-root
|
|---Gallery-Index (display childgalleries) (document container)
|-Gallery1 (subdocument with [[MaxiGallery?...]])
|-Gallery2 ....
|-Gallery.....

what still confuses me is DzynLabJW’s question
i think it hadn’t anything to do with my request
(as i think, he wanted to group/filter pictures by e.g. photographer)

Yes, like I tried to tell you previously, they were two different issues. Glad that you got it working!