I need to create multiple image galleries in Drupal 7.0. I want to display one row of thumbnails with arrows to see the next/previous row of thumbnails. On clicking a thunbnail, I want to display the full image with option to display next/previous image and to run a slideshow. As I have stated, I will need to create multiple iamges galleries, so I shall prefer, if I can upload images to folder(s) using FTP.

Can someone suggest which modules to use?

Thanks a lot!

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peterjlord’s picture

I've just been listening to a podcast on drupal7.
I don't think any modules will be available yet to do this sort of thing yet.
And by the sounds of it unless your a programmer / themer you should probably wait a few months until
the contributed modules catch up with drupal core

nirbhasa’s picture

Yes the range is limited right now. Some options available now are:

- Create a view of imagecache thumbnails with link to colorbox (using colorbox module)
- Views Slideshow and Views Slideshow: Slider have D7 versions out
- There is also Fast Gallery, which doesnt depend on Views, I havent tried it

tax14’s picture

I am just a beginner so I can't create any module to achieve my object.
Since so many modules for image/image gallery/slideshow are available for Drupal 6, can you suggest module(s) that can meet my requirements. I would prefer to avoid Views, if possible.

Thanks a lot.

vanrijnr1’s picture

I've struggled with views as well, however the documentation for views slideshow worked just fine for me. Btw, the reason I struggled is that I didn't understand to create a content type so that when views sees this content type it will use all content of this type. Basically, I created and image that was X x Y pixels, saved this, created the content type for the slider, added the content, and set everything up on views. Worked fine, and the documentation got me there no problem. www.acaptivememory.com is a simple site, although it took me long enough and needs more work, see bottom 12 images for example.

vanrijnr1’s picture

Sorry, I meant, I created an image style that was X x Y pixels...

riverrat’s picture

Nice site

alternatecloud’s picture

Roy Van Rijn you have done an excellent job with this slideshow.

I am going to give it a try.

Thanks for the posting, keep them coming, gives people like me ideas!!!

greg

tax14’s picture

It appears that Gallery Formatter (http://drupal.org/project/galleryformatter) may be a suitable module to create image galleries in Drupal 7. Here is a link to the demo site for the Gallery Formatter provided on the project page.
http://gf.ekhosting.net/

I tried it and was able to make it work on my website without any issue. I recommend it.

Drupal_JA’s picture

How did you get the title overlay, etc. I do not see a setting?

jaymex’s picture

Hi Peter- lovely site (I sent the link to my cousin who is a life time bagger and has done them all and a number of them more than once) but my interest was the lovely use of lots of images throughout the site - is it a Drupal 6 site? How did you do the images. Did you create a special content type and use views and/or some php script. I have two sites to do where lots of images are involved and I doing some research at the minute. Really nice site - Jaymex

Lennard’s picture

We all needs a good Gallery Module i self search for this and found nothing too.

I dont know why the exists gallery makers this needs ignore...

Long times the maintainer knows about a D7 is coming but they worked too late for
port their modules.

I mean the D6 have enough Gallery moduls so must worked now all on D7 porting their modules
but not all see it that many user is really need this.

alarfaj’s picture

Try Colorbox module with Styles. I am putting it in my new website and it's awesome!!

I created an image field called it Photo Gallery.

I changed the display setting to use Colorbox and chose to show the thumbnails in the node, and the original size images in the Colorbox.

With a little bit of css I got the results which I wanted which is very close to what you mentioned.

Anonymous’s picture

alarjaj, would you be willing to post a tutorial showing how you did this? Also a link where we can see it in action?

Cheers,

mjohnq3’s picture

I put together a gallery for Drupal 7 using the Colorbox module. It’s really quite flexible and with a little CSS tweaking makes a fairly nice light-weight simple gallery.

1) Start by downloading the module and the required script files from the project page and the external site.

2) Install and configure the module per the instructions on the project page and the very informative video the module author created and linked to there.

3) Create a Gallery content type. And an Image field (it’s an existing field type in Drupal 7) and any other fields you require. I disabled Comments and the Teaser for my galleries.

4) If you need to, create an Image Style that will be used for your images on the gallery page. You could use an existing style included with Drupal. The size you use will depend on the available area you have based on your content/sidebar configuration.

5) On the Manage Display tab for the Gallery content type select Colorbox from the Format listbox for the image field. The author describes how to configure it in his video. This is where you select the Image style for your gallery content type display page.

I also used Views to create a listing of, and links to, all of the Galleries on the site.

You can view the site here: http://mjq234.dev4.webenabled.net/

Drupal_Bengaluru’s picture

Gallerific works well in D7

tax14’s picture

Could you please provide details? That is, the required modules and installation/usage instructions/steps. Any sample/demo sites that use Gallerfic in Drupal 7 would be very helpful.

Thank you so much.

Drupal_Bengaluru’s picture

Follow the instructions provided in this page -
http://drupal.org/node/758724.

you wil require views and the views gallerfic module in D7

You will need four fields -
Title
Description
Thumbnail
Display Image

Thumbnail and Display Image can be two different images.
I have however created two different "Image Styles" (in configuration) for a single image.

In fields -> select gallerfic fields -> select appropriate fields for title, description, thumbnail and display image.

Do select the type of display -> a page or a block.
I have used a page and specified path as gallerific.

tax14’s picture

Thank you so much for providing steps. I tried to follow the steps to create a new content type for Gallerific Album and also created a Page view, and assigned a path to the view. However, when I use the path, I get error the following error message:

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Notice: Undefined index: title_field in include() (line 10 of C:\xampp\htdocs\drupal7\sites\all\modules\views_galleriffic\views-galleriffic-view-gallerifficrows.tpl.php).
Notice: Trying to get property of non-object in include() (line 10 of C:\xampp\htdocs\drupal7\sites\all\modules\views_galleriffic\views-galleriffic-view-gallerifficrows.tpl.php).
Notice: Undefined index: title_field in include() (line 10 of C:\xampp\htdocs\drupal7\sites\all\modules\views_galleriffic\views-galleriffic-view-gallerifficrows.tpl.php).
Notice: Trying to get property of non-object in include() (line 10 of C:\xampp\htdocs\drupal7\sites\all\modules\views_galleriffic\views-galleriffic-view-gallerifficrows.tpl.php).
Notice: Undefined index: title_field in include() (line 10 of C:\xampp\htdocs\drupal7\sites\all\modules\views_galleriffic\views-galleriffic-view-gallerifficrows.tpl.php).
Notice: Trying to get property of non-object in include() (line 10 of C:\xampp\htdocs\drupal7\sites\all\modules\views_galleriffic\views-galleriffic-view-gallerifficrows.tpl.php).
Notice: Undefined index: title_field in include() (line 12 of C:\xampp\htdocs\drupal7\sites\all\modules\views_galleriffic\views-galleriffic-view-gallerifficrows.tpl.php).
Notice: Trying to get property of non-object in include() (line 12 of C:\xampp\htdocs\drupal7\sites\all\modules\views_galleriffic\views-galleriffic-view-gallerifficrows.tpl.php).
------------------------------------------

After the error message, the page displays the thumbnail of the first picture from the gallery I created. On clicking the thumbnail, it displays the bigger picture. But I don't see the gallery.

I would appreciate any help...

Drupal_Bengaluru’s picture

Send me a screenshot of your view.
you have not set the style for the thumbnail and image display.
In this gallery only one image per node is displayed.
Since this serves my present reqt well i have not pursued an alternative.

tax14’s picture

I started from scratch. Created a content type and view for Views_Gallerific.
After carefully following all steps, I was able to create a Page View without any errors displayed by Drupal. (Used default Thumbnail and Large image styles). I defined the path "gallerific" for the page view.
Also downloaded and copied jquery.history.js from http://galleriffic.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/example/js/jquery.history.js and copied in the sites\all\modules\views_galleriffic\js folder.

(Update: It seems that I also need to install and enable libraries API. However, when I do so, I get the following error:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function libraries_load() in C:\xampp\htdocs\drupal7\sites\all\modules\views_galleriffic\views-galleriffic-view.tpl.php on line 15. The error message disappears when I disable the Libraries module.)

I created two image galleries.

When I view the gallerific view path, I see two thumbnails on the left (one for each gallery) and a larger image on the right with the description below the image. There is a Play button above the thumbnails, and Prev and Next buttons above the larger slide. When I click the Prev/Next buttons, the slide on the page is refreshed from the Prev/next album, but I don't see all slide from the selected album. The same phenomenon happens when I click the Play button.

Looks like I am missing some configuration somewhere? Any suggestions?

How do I attach screenshots or send it to a member?

Drupal_Bengaluru’s picture

downloaded any library or support.
i have followed the steps in the link i have sent and it worked.
create an issue, u can upload your screenshot there.

brodiebrodie’s picture

"Gallerific works well in D7"

I have tried this, but no success, any help would be appreciated

Thanks

Brodie

Drupal_Bengaluru’s picture

Follow the instructions provided in this page -
http://drupal.org/node/758724.

you wil require views and the views gallerfic module in D7

You will need four fields -
Title
Description
Thumbnail
Display Image

Thumbnail and Display Image can be two different images.
I have however created two different "Image Styles" (in configuration) for a single image.

In fields -> select gallerfic fields -> select appropriate fields for title, description, thumbnail and display image.

Do select the type of display -> a page or a block.
I have used a page and specified path as gallerific.

jwaraksa’s picture

mjohnq3,

I'm trying to accomplish the same exact thing you did on your site with the vineyard photo gallery but am having no luck.

1. I can add the thumbnail images to the gallery page using colorbox, but when I click on the image instead of the nice pop up It just shows me the original image in a blank screen. What am I missing?

2. On my gallery page, I have the preview graphic that you click to go to the photo gallery, but it is gray with now thumbnail image displayed. It also has the text "no images yet" but I do have images in the gallery. I see your gallery pulls in the thumbnail of the vineyard, how did you configure this?

Your help is much appreciated!
Jeremy

mjohnq3’s picture

1) This is set in the display settings for your image field in whatever content type you're using for the gallery. Select the Manage Display tab and you'll see something like this: http://www.imageno.com/rlhrzaeqcx5fpic.html. The image format is set to Colorbox. Selecting the settings button at the far right gives you the Colorbox settings dialog: http://www.imageno.com/16vzs1lnvbwypic.html. You select the node image style that will be displayed in the gallery and the image style that will be shown in the Colorbox.

2) I'm assuming that you mean the Gallery listing page, which is a View. I'm also assuming that your gallery content type has multiple images; that you're not using multiple single-image nodes for your gallery. If so, you need to add an image field to the view and configure the format; this is usually an Image Style you created for that purpose. In the field settings for the image field, you select the Formatter, the Image style, and where the image links to, as shown here: http://www.imageno.com/8gtntv7pc5vppic.html. Then, to display a single image from your gallery in that field, you use the Multiple Field Settings section, as shown: http://www.imageno.com/auh2nlp29u92pic.html. You want to Display 1 value (1 image) starting from 0 (the 1st image), or whichever image you want to show.

jwaraksa’s picture

OK, I understand and have completed step 1 (creating a content type with an image field using colorbox). In this content type I used one image field set to accept unlimited number of images, not multiple image fields.

I am still confused on step 2. Why I'm creating a view for this. I have installed the module "Media Gallery" and each of its dependencies. From the looks of it, the page I get from enabling this module displays the gallery collection image that you used on your galleries page, except mine is gray and says "No Images Yet". How do I link the first image from each of my photo gallery nodes, created with my content type from step 1, to the collection thumbnail on the galleries page?

I appreciate your inclusion of screen shots in number 2 above but I can't find where the multiple field settings are located in the view. Could you please provide a larger snapshot so I can get a better point of reference.

Thanks again,
Jeremy

mjohnq3’s picture

I was confused about which gallery you meant. I have both Media Gallery and Colorbox Gallery installed on the site.

Media Gallery appears to take the first image you uploaded to the gallery and uses that for the thumbnail which appears on the 'All Galleries' page. It does that completely on its own; there's no view involved and it doesn't seem to be configurable. I really can't say why the thumbnail doesn't show in your installation. I don't recall having had a problem with that. There is this issue which is somewhat related: http://drupal.org/node/1020922. I did apply the patch provided and it solved that specific problem.

Have you tried clearing the cache? That's often the universal fix for many unusual problems. If you can't get it to work, you might want open an issue for the Media Gallery project.

vegaper’s picture

Hi, I'm building my first drupal site.. (ok, in fact my first site at all...) and your gallery looks great, I'm wondering if it does work in a node, let me explain, I have a blog node with a image field with unlimited entries ¿can I create a gallery with those images and display it in the blog node?
I don't know if you understand... my english isn't very good

Thanks

mjohnq3’s picture

@vegaper

If your question is to me - then yes, you should be able to use any content type for a gallery. Each of the Colorbox galleries on my site is a single node, of a content type I created called Gallery, containing multiple images.

To get the gallery effect you configure the display settings for the image field in your content type. Select the Manage Display tab and you'll see something like this: http://www.imageno.com/rlhrzaeqcx5fpic.html. The image format is set to Colorbox. Selecting the settings button at the far right gives you the Colorbox settings dialog: http://www.imageno.com/16vzs1lnvbwypic.html. You select the node image style that will be displayed in the gallery (usually a thumbnail type image style that you created) and the image style that will be shown in the Colorbox (usually the original image or an image style that you created.)

Then you use some CSS to style the galley. I used:

.node-gallery .field-type-image img {
    border: 1px solid #CCCCCC;
    float: left;
    margin-right: 28px;
    padding: 5px;
}

but yours may be different, and the selector .node-gallery is based on my content type. Yours will very likely be something else.

Anonymous’s picture

I found this video helpful. After getting it to work, I styled the divs that wrap each image to float left & gave them a little top & right margin.

cabplan’s picture

Can you post the exact CSS styles you used, I tried to style them but not sure what each item is called. I tried this:

.content .field-items field-item even a img{
float:left;
}

but that did not work, I tried other variations but still did not work

parijke’s picture

Haven't tried them yetm but seen it in action. Media Gallery and Media modules

http://drupal.org/project/media
http://drupal.org/project/media_gallery

mrwendell’s picture

As near as I can figure this is the future of multimedia and galleries in Drupal. They have developed a media entity, which is exactly how it should be done in D7+

jamesbenison’s picture

It's been submitted to Drupal. It should cover most applications I think. I would appreciate any feedback on ways it might be improved.

http://www.lunarclips.com/aino-galleria-drupal

I'm toying with a multi-image upload solution for Drupal 7 in addition. When I get a good one functioning I'll put in an application.

brodiebrodie’s picture

This looks really good , James..
and it clearly works on your site, I have followed all he steps but can't get it to work for me (Either the galleria or the carousel) it looks like I am not calling the JQuery even though everything seems to be in the right place..any help would most appreciated.

Best

Brodie

jamesbenison’s picture

e-mail me a link to your site. I should be able to figure it out very quickly.

The most common installation problem is not having the plugin path quite right.

jamesbenison’s picture

I just updated that module today. If the Galleria plugin file is not found the user is alerted in the settings form. Actually I added quite a few things.

From scouring the code in the new Galleria 1.2 API (not officially released yet) I can see that they are creating a very first class over the top image solution.

brodiebrodie’s picture

Many thanks for your swift reply,
I have downloaded and updated the module as well as the Galleria 1.2 ,
I can still not get it to work, I have looked at the paths and they seem to be correct, the only thing that doesn't exist is "sites/all/libraries/aino-galleria/src/plugins/" this was not in the Galleria 1.2 that i downloaded from github
I know that it must be something simple but I can't see what it is, I am testing the site on a localhost at the moment so can't link to it, but I will stick something up on a server if I can't find the solution here.

Again, thanks for your time

Brodie

I have found and installed galleria.history.js in sites/all/libraries/aino-galleria/src/plugins/..... still no joy..

jamesbenison’s picture

The module will tell you if it doesn't find the galleria.js file. So if you aren't getting a warning in your settings form that is not the problem. Also the only file from the plugin folder that the module uses is the history plugin, and it's optional.

Make sure your Galleria has a height and width. Really all it should need is pictures, a theme, and height/width. The extend feature can break the output if you enter an invalid function. Leave that empty. Turn off css and javascript aggregation for troubleshooting.

If that doesn't work, rather than putting up a live site, try this:

Open a text editor. Go to your website and open view source in your browser window. Use ctrl a to select all, then ctrl c to copy. Ctrl v in your text editor to paste the output. Save the text and e-mail that to me.

Hope this help. I have no doubt it's something very simple.

brodiebrodie’s picture

Hi James,

Thanks for the advice (and a great module !).
You were right , it was something simple, I had left the height and width set to auto, I gave these values and that did the trick .

Cheers

Brodie

jamesbenison’s picture

Galleria defaults to auto width and height, but the module doesn't necessarily need to. It tries to get the dimensions of the container it is in when it is set to auto. If one isn't found....no joy. I will implement a change the next time I update it.

That's why it's nice to get feedback.

Glad it is working now.

Jim

barwonhack’s picture

Well I'd have to say that most Gallery plugins are unreliable and difficult to customise to the needs of your self/client/colleagues.

Best bet is to use Views and or template over-rides (maybe Panels) ... perhaps plus a lightbox such as colorbox.

Modules can consume so much time and cause so much stress, so try to keep it simple and build something you can understand, control and maintain.

jwaraksa’s picture

mjohnq3,

I'm trying to accomplish the same exact thing you did on your site with the vineyard photo gallery but am having no luck.

1. I can add the thumbnail images to the gallery page using colorbox, but when I click on the image instead of the nice pop up It just shows me the original image in a blank screen. What am I missing?

2. On my gallery page, I have the preview graphic that you click to go to the photo gallery, but it is gray with now thumbnail image displayed. It also has the text "no images yet" but I do have images in the gallery. I see your gallery pulls in the thumbnail of the vineyard, how did you configure this?

Your help is much appreciated!
Jeremy

mjohnq3’s picture

Wow, for some reason I totally missed this post but I think you'll find the answer here: http://drupal.org/node/1029174#comment-4323744. Sorry I wasn't more timely.

gratefulsk’s picture

My site is http://www.steveandamberwedding.com

  1. All I have done was create a content type named "album"
  2. In that content type I added a image file field with unlimited values
  3. I then downloaded the shadowbox module and configured the display to open the image in the shadowbox viewer
  4. After that I created a simple view with a link to each of the albums

As simple as it gets. Thanks Drupal 7

jaspm2004’s picture

hi there, nice way to make a gallery. i follow your steps and made one myself, but i dont know how to put the image thumbnails in a grid like you did. my thumbnails appears all in one column. can you help me on this? thanks

Liaz’s picture

Hi,
I have exactly the same behaviour with my view, even with a grid setting 4 rows and horizontal align. If anyone could help it would be just great :)
Many thanks
Liaz

PS : appart from this tiny probm that I'm sure is easily fixable, this module is just amazing - simple and efficient ! thanks a lot for the advise :)

Liaz’s picture

Hello
you have to change a default setting in your view :
In the fields configuration, clic on your content images
then scroll dow to the "Show Multiple field settings" menu, unfold it, and uncheck the box "Display all values in the same row "
that should be working :)

++
Liaz

mizaru’s picture

dearest,

i am not finding the "Show Multiple field settings" menu, could you tell me exactly where to find it.

fairly new to drupal so it can be a maze somethimes

kind regards

Sven

gratefulsk’s picture

I have used css to control the way the gallery is displayed. For instance I set each field item to float left and used a margin for spacing. I added this to my style sheet.

.node-album .field-type-image .field-item {
background-color: #FFFFFF;
box-shadow: 0 0 3px #666666;
float: left;
margin: 7px;
padding: 5px;
}

The only way to do this without using css is by using views and setting the view to grid. See here http://drupal.org/node/258201

I also wanted to mention that I used image styles provided by Drupal 7 core to define my thumbnail size and full view sizes. After I set those sizes I applied them to the display by going to manage display in the content type edit interface.

jaspm2004’s picture

thanks there, worked ok...

akshita’s picture

Your site looks adorable.

Can you please elaborate the steps.

After that I created a simple view with a link to each of the albums - I failed here

Your help is greatly appreciated.

hectorplus’s picture

+1

snickwit’s picture

This is really nice! I followed the tutorials on the shadowbox module page and I believe I got most of it working. However, how did you get the nice little "white" box flash when doing mouse over?

akshita’s picture

Can someone demonstrate Shadowbox Module" for drupal 7.0 to create a awesome photo gallery.

Through the forums I found this :

My site is http://www.steveandamberwedding.com

1. All I have done was create a content type named "album"
2. In that content type I added a image file field with unlimited values
3. I then downloaded the shadowbox module and configured the display to open the image in the shadowbox viewer
4. After that I created a simple view with a link to each of the albums

As simple as it gets. Thanks Drupal 7

But the user have not given any elaborated steps . But the site looks adorable.

can anyone help please

kiwipion’s picture

Check out http://drupalovereasy.com, there are two video tutorials for image galleries, one based on fields and the other on nodes.

bittu10’s picture

Hi,

I am replying to an old posting. I hope you must have figured, how to create an image gallery, by now.
In case, if you don't, read my post. I tried creating an Image gallery in the month of May. I spent around 3 weeks just on creating an Image Gallery.
After trying different modules, finally, I selected Media module. This is a comprehensive module to handle all types of media, be it Image, video, audio, or simple a file.
All the help (patch content) listed here, you can find them in other Drupal posts as well. I've collected them from different posts and listed here. Thanks to their original contributors.

Read the details of Media module at.
http://drupal.org/project/media
(don't get disheartened by the first line on the page, its an old comment).

Media gallery is dependent upon following modules.

List (enabled), yes
Field (enabled), yes
Field SQL storage (enabled), yes
Options (enabled), yes
Number (enabled), yes
Media (enabled), yes
File (enabled), yes
Image (enabled), yes
File Styles (enabled), yes
Styles (enabled), yes
Taxonomy (enabled), yes
Multiple forms (enabled) yes
(some are part of the Drupal 7 Core.)

Please find the changes you need to do in order to make media module working.
please do the following.

Note: When, I started using Media and Media Gallery module, it was still a development version and there were many issues in the module. I have listed those issues and their patch below.
But, I think in their latest version, they have included all the patch in the module itself. You might not face those issues when you use Media and Media Gallery module.

Note: Line numbers might not exactly match because I've added extra comment in my file. Look for the line marked in bold-red font in respective files at respective locations.

Issue 1 => Changes in /opt/lampp/htdocs/XXXXXX/sites/all/modules/styles/contrib/file_styles/file_styles.module

64 //bittu10: Code change to correct the error
65 //Strict warning: Only variables should be passed by reference in file_styles_strstr()
66 //(line 64 of /opt/lampp/htdocs/XXXXXX/sites/all/modules/styles/contrib/file_styles/file_styles.module).
67 //return array_shift(explode($needle, $haystack, 2));
68 $exploded = explode($needle, $haystack, 2);
69 return array_shift($exploded);

Issue 2 =>
drupal 7 media Call to undefined function media_include_browser_js() in sites/all/modules/media_gallery/media_gallery.module
adding this mdoule version solved above problem. Download this below version of the meda gallery. We have installed the beta version. We need to add the development version of the gallery.
media_gallery 7.x-1.x-dev

You can simply, replace the media_gallery from sites/all/modules/media_gallery/media_gallery.module.

Issue 3=> Changes in /opt/lampp/htdocs/XXXXXXXX/sites/all/modules/media_gallery/media_gallery.module
883 //bittu10: Code change to correct the issue of
884 // # Notice: Undefined index: media_gallery_block_rows in locale_field_node_form_submit()
885 // (line 405 of /opt/lampp/htdocs/XXXXXXX/modules/locale/locale.module).
886 //unset($form[$id]);
887 $form[$id] = array('#language' => NULL);

Issue 4 => Changes in /opt/lampp/htdocs/XXXXXXXX/sites/all/modules/media_gallery/media_gallery.module

910 //bittu10: Added code to correct the issue
911 // Notice: Undefined index: media_gallery_block_rows in locale_field_node_form_submit()
912 // (line 405 of /opt/lampp/htdocs/XXXXXXX/modules/locale/locale.module).
913 //unset($form[$id]);
914 $form[$id] = array('#language' => NULL);

Thanks
bittu10
India

alexmotion’s picture

how I can show the number of items that have the gallery ?

jjjames’s picture

+1

grigori80’s picture

hongpong’s picture

Make sure Clean URLS are enabled otherwise various gallery features break.

pankajyadav’s picture

please help me in adding the image gallery in drupal7 .

ace11’s picture

Try this: http://drupal.org/project/media_gallery
READ README.txt from media gallery folder and follow instructions!
This worked for me - really nice module!

bernd’s picture

the_meter413’s picture

Thanks for posting the great tutorial! I'm sure I'm overlooking something (I'm still very new to Drupal), but after following your instructions, I can only upload one file for the content type(s) created with your instructions. Did I miss a step somewhere?

Just a quick note: when creating the "image" fields, under "Image fields settings," one must remember to change the "number of values" drop-down to something other than the default of "1." That might seem obvious to the Drupal veterans, but it took a noob like me a few minutes of hair-pulling before I figured that out! :P

Thanks again for the tutorial!

shimul_777’s picture

How create an image gallery using gallery formetter modulein Drupal 7?
any body help please.

a_d_jackson’s picture

Ok, I've trawled this for a while - watched many videos.
Most of the D7 galleries revolve around uploading multiple images into a single 'gallery' page.
This is not only tedious but not very efficient if you want to reuse images in other pages or want to move an image to a different 'gallery'.

I really liked the way the image gallery view worked in D6.. so I have created a Feature (using Features module) that builds a similar gallery.
The features consists of the following:

  • Photo content type; i.e. the image it's self with a optional reference to a Photo Gallery content type which contains nothing but a title.
  • Galleries view which displays a list of Photo Gallery content types with a link to the relevant
  • Gallery view which contain the Photo content types that reference the Photo Gallery being displayed

The feature can be downloaded from http://www.websqueak.co.uk/features/basic_photo_gallery/basic_photo_gallery-7.x-1.0.tar

kvguser’s picture

While it works, it is pretty primitive. You cannot upload more than 1 picture at a time.
SO no way you could productively import your previous site/Drupal version gallery.

After I tried everything possible for Drupal 7, I decided to host the pictures on Flickr and use the Drupal module "FlickrGallery" to show them inside my site's view. It works perfectly.

Of course, FlickrGallery module is good for public pictures - if you need to protect viewing pictures by Drupal site members or groups only, you have to use something else.

But good luck making it work, or finding one with the minimum reasonable capabilities that anyone would expect for such module - such as mass upload/import of large existing picture set; closest one that worked on D7 was module "Galerie". It had some problems with overlaying my theme in "slideshow" mode, as well as some other minor bugs.

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