Gallery; how can i set a default album?

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coensiebenheller Reply #1, 13 years ago

I have a question concerning the Gallery add on.

The website i'm building has an Gallery on almost every page. The client wanted a website that has photographs on every page. But i've noticed that on most of the pages he uses the same album. My question here is; can i somehow set an default album for every page? So for example the default album is [[*main-album]] witch always shows, but when the client choses an album manually it becomes the selected one.

I hope i'm making myself clear.

Thnx for the help!

P.s. this is the call i'm making right now:

[[Gallery? &album=`[[*sidebarAlbum]]` &thumbTpl=`thumbSidebar` &thumbQuality=`65` &thumbProperties=`{"f":"jpg"}` &thumbZoomCrop=`1` &useCss=`0`]]

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benmarte Reply #2, 13 years ago

How would your client change the default album? Via a Template Variable or they have to manually edit the Gallery call?

If you are doing it with a TV then you could do something like this:


[[Gallery?
&album=`[[*sidebarAlbum:empty=`[[*main-album]]`]]`
&thumbTpl=`thumbSidebar`
&thumbQuality=`65`
&thumbProperties=`{"f":"jpg"}`
&thumbZoomCrop=`1`
&useCss=`0`]]

Now your sidebarAlbum Template Varaible needs to be an input type of galleryalbumlist.

Good luck.

Benjamin Marte
Interactive Media Developer
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coensiebenheller Reply #3, 13 years ago

Hi Benjamin,

Thanks for your help! That is exactly what is was going for. Only for some reason it won't work?

I now have 2 TV's one called "impressions" and one called "sidebarAlbum". The impressions TV is the default album i want to show on every page. Both have an input type of galleryalbumlist. What am i still doing wrong here? If i select a album in the sidebarAlbum TV it shows. But when i leave it empty it doesn't show the "default" impressions album?

[[Gallery?
						&album=`[[*sidebarAlbum:empty=`[[*impressions]]`]]`
						&thumbTpl=`thumbSidebar`
						&thumbQuality=`100`
						&thumbProperties=`{"f":"jpg"}`
						&thumbZoomCrop=`1`
						&useCss=`0`]]

Thanks in advance!

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Dan Reply #4, 13 years ago

Is the [[*impressions]] TV defined on the particular resource you're making this Gallery call on?

If not you'll need to use ShowTV or fastField to use [[*impressions]] in a global manner:

http://modx.com/extras/package/showtv2
http://modx.com/extras/package/fastfield

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benmarte Reply #5, 13 years ago

Try calling gallery uncached that should solve your problem.

Good luck.

Benjamin Marte
Interactive Media Developer
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