By talyia on

Hi there...
Hoping someone can help me with this. I just installed Brilliant Gallery to try out but am having a few issues. I have activated the module but when I go to Administer>Site Config>Brilliant Gallery, I don't see the "manage tab" anywhere, so I am not able to enable/disable any of the galleries..which should be at admin/settings/brilliant_gallery/manage. Also, I don't see an option anywhere to customize the background color.
My theme is a custom theme, so is there anything I am missing that I should have in order for this module to work? If I can get it going properly, it looks to be exactly what I am needing:)

Thanks a lot in advance for your assistance:)
Christine

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talyia commented

What is the best way to customise the galleries? CSS? Or would it take further customization of on the tpl.php files?

Thanks a lot,
Christine

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talyia commented

Worked this out on my own by doing more research... also realised that I should post questions like this elsewhere (under specific modules' "issues")... still finding my way around here:)

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aohanian commented

And what's the solution?

I have the same issue.

Thanks.

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talyia commented

If regarding the "manage tab" and the color preference in the Admin settings for Brilliant Gallery, then that is not yet available in the D6 version. You CAN specifiy this, as well as do a lot of other customizations with a special tag for Brilliant Gallery.
For example, to override the color background and change it to white, here is an example of one of my tags: [bg|taichawaicha|||||#ffffff||yes]

Go to the developer's page for detailed instructions so that the above tag will make more sense to you:) ... there you will find out pretty much all you need to know:) Also, don't forget to Go to Input Formats in your Drupal ( /admin/settings/filters ) and via the "configure" link enable one of your input formats to recognize the Brilliant Gallery Tag.

Below is some info I pulled from the page regarding the tags.

There are several ways in which you can display your picture gallery.
• Anywhere in a node, using a special tag in the format [bg|path/to/your/gallery/folder/without/wrapping/slashes]. You only need to specify path within the main folder. You also can override many of the default settings using the full tag
[bg|path/to/your/gallery/folder/without/wrapping/slashes |columncountoverride|widthoverride|sortorrandomoverride|maximumnumbertoshow|colouroverride|beginfromoverride|caption-yes-no-text]

Hope this helps!

I really like BG a LOT! You can place an album pretty much wherever you like, simply by inserting a tag! (Make sure not to use the filtered html with the tags tho')

Good luck!

Christine

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aohanian commented

Thanks Talyia.

I have done all as instructed but I don't see the galleries. I have used BG with Drupal 5 and was very happy with it.
However, I can't get it work with D6. I am using it with lightbox2. I tested lightbox2 by itself and that works.

Here is my scenario.

I installed lightbox2 and BG, enabled everything according to the instructions.
Created a folder named "files" in public_html.
Then, created a folder inside "files" named "albums", then "test" under albums (files/albums/test).
Added jpg images to "test" and set "albums" to be the root folder in BG configuration.

I created a page and added "[bg|test]" ( and yes, I have enabled the input format to recognize the tag).

Nothing happens. Images don't show up as they used to in D5.

Am I supposed to install other helper modules like "image", etc?
What am I missing?

Thanks in advance for all the advice and help,
-Arman

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talyia commented

Wherever you have specified in your admin/site configuration/file system settings that files are supposed to be stored/uploaded, make sure that you put your albums in that location.

For example, in my admin/site configuration/file system I specified for it to be "sites/default/files/images".
I then created a folder for my brilliant gallery images called "galleria" in my sites/default/files/images so it is located at sites/default/files/images/galleria.

In my Brilliant Gallery settings I then put "galleria" as my main gallery folder.

You probably already know all of this but I thought I would write this anyway just in case you did not:)

Other than using Lightbox2 as it's overlay browser, Brilliant Gallery really does not any other helper modules. (I don't use the image module).

Some other things...
Are you sure you have enabled the permissions for BG?
Are you using full HTML? (Will not work properly with filtered html)

Let me know...

Christine

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aohanian commented

Thanks Christine! You are a lifesaver!

It was the location of the files... I had no clue how to control that!
Thanks for assuming I knew all of that but unfortunately I didn't! I do now though. ;o)

Seriously, I can't thank you enough. You made my day today!

Thanks,
-Arman.

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talyia commented

It's certainly a pleasure Arman:)

I am busy trying to solve another issue altogether that is plaguing me (with Imagecache) so please keep your fingers crossed for me that I can solve it...:)

Christine

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njooln commented

Well i tried about anything for the last to days but i don’t seen to get the brilliant gallery working.
So i was hoping if there is a step by step tutorial witch i can follow that allows me to restart properly?

I followed some forums on this site to get me started but that all failed!
I have installed the module, made a map on the root for images and used the necessary tags, but if doesn’t display images?