Multiple galleries and taxonomy

Last updated May 22, 2010. Created by AndiS on October 1, 2007.
Edited by john.kenney, add1sun. Log in to edit this page.

Here's another method for multiple galleries, using taxonomy for HowTo: Create an image gallery using only CCK and Views.
You need one additional module: http://drupal.org/project/viewfield

I wanted the site editor to be able to create an additional gallery like he would create any other content, without having to add additional views or vocabulary terms.

The first steps are identical to "Adding Taxonomy" shown above:

1. Go to Administer/Categories (admin/content/taxonomy)

2. Click the 'Add Vocabulary' tab

3. Call the vocabulary 'Image Gallery'

4. In the 'Types' section, check the checkbox next to the CCK content type you created for images (mine is called 'Image')

5. Once the vocabulary is created, add terms to it - or select "Free Tagging": this will allow the admin to start a new gallery without having to define it in the Categories Administration first.
Now when you go to create or edit an image content type, you will see an auto-complete field where you can enter the name of the gallery you want it to be displayed in.

6. Now go back to the View you created before for your gallery (admin/build/views), and instead of adding a filter, add an argument:
Taxonomy: Term Name

7. Create a new Content Type, called "gallery"

8. Add a field to "gallery", for the Field Type select "View Reference"
as the Default Value, select the View you created before for your gallery.

9. Now go to Create content & create a new gallery. You can give it a title, and enter some description to the body if needed.
As an argument, enter any tag you assigned to your pictures before, for example the gallery name. Every picture that has been tagged with that term will show up in that gallery.

10. To display all the galleries on one page, you need to create one last View (admin/build/views)

choose Add

Name e.g. "allgalleries"

- Page:
check Provide Page View
URL: wherever you want it to show up
View Type: Full Nodes (You can of course adjust this to just give you links to the seperate galleries, or show teasers, etc.)

- Filters:
Node: Published - Equals - Yes
Node: Type - Is One Of - gallery

11. To create one or multiple master galleries displaying some, but not all of the subgalleries, you need to modify the View from #10 and then clone it for as many versions as you need. For instance on an artist's site where you want art galleries in one place and, maybe, photos of art events/exhibits in another, you need to create 2 new views for that.

First, add a new filter to the View in #10: Taxonomy: Term = 'term_x'. Second, modify path and menu options, as appropriate. This will create a page showing only gallery pages in the taxonomy 'term_x'.

Then, if you need multiple such pages, clone the updated View and change the taxonomy term accordingly (term_y). Edit path and menu to match.

To get an image thumbnail to show on these master galleries (both here and for #10), you can add CCK 'imagefield' to your gallery_page and upload whatever image you want. There may be a way to make this image be the 'most recent', but i couldn't figure it out.

Also, step #11 requires that your taxonomy has the necessary terms x and y. Meaning that you'll generally need at least 2 levels in the hierarchy: all_galleries -> gallery_type -> subgallery. So gallery_type might be 'art' (term_x) vs. 'events' (term_y) with subgalleries underneath each.

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That's it. Instead of creating a content type called gallery (in #7), you could add a View Reference field to any content type, so you could display an image gallery in any node. E.g. a blog article about your last vacation could show all pictures tagged with "Rome" and "5-6-07".

The end result isn't revolutionary, or that different from the original How-To, but this way any user / editor who knows how to create content (or whose permissions restrict them to just that) can start a new gallery. Hope it helps.