By jimmyz12 on

I am attempting to take over maintenance of a Drupal web site that was developed by a web developer who is no longer available to help me maintain the site. I can add content just fine ... where I am stumped is this image gallery:

http://anderscshafer.com/image/tid/1

When I enter the admin mode, there appears to be no way to add images to this particular gallery! When I attempt to create content, I have the three basic choices of Image, Page and Story. If I choose image and add it, the new image doesn't appear in the gallery. Also, I see no way of categorizing that image after adding it so that it does show up in that gallery.

Also, if I am in admin mode, I get an option for editing every other page on the site .... except that image gallery: it looks the same as if I were not logged in.

I'm sure that this is something simple that a novice Drupal user like me just is not seeing ... can someone help me please? That would be AWESOME if you could ... THANKS!

⋅ Categories: Drupal 5.x

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dman commented

Image galleries are automatic collations - not pages - which is why you don't 'edit' them directly.
Instead you add or remove images from the group.
This is handled on a per-image basic. An image is marked as being a member of one or more galleries.
Soooo.
When you create (or edit) an image there should be a selector on the edit form that allows you to select the gallery(s) it should show up in.

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jimmyz12 commented

Dan ... thanks for the reply ... but that's part of the problem: when I view an image in edit mode, there is nothing giving me an option for classifying that image .... nor is there anyway to do it when I add an image. I wonder if this is a bad install of Drupal: I have another site I am working on that DOES allow you to select a category when you add images. As an experiment, I created a new image gallery for this site .... yet I couldn't find anyway to add images to the new gallery either in admin. Suggestions?

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dman commented

In taxonomy, you should see a 'gallery' vocabulary.
That gallery vocabulary should be associated with 'image' content type.

It's also possible that a single variable has got lost - can happen if a required vocabulary is deleted and re-created again.
if variable_get('image_gallery_nav_vocabulary', '') is for some broken reason not pointing at the 'gallery' vocabulary, it needs to be fixed.
A little php

print(variable_get('image_gallery_nav_vocabulary', 'bad news'));

should return a number corresponding to the vocab. If not, or it gives a number indicating a not-existant vocab, it's broken.
Make a new vocab, and then

variable_set('image_gallery_nav_vocabulary', $vid));

where vid is the new vocab id.

This is speculation, as it really should not get into this state. I've only managed it once with a broken partial backup.

.dan.
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hoot commented

Your tip on editing the Image Gallery vocabulary under taxonomy and adding image as a content type worked. I can now add an image to a gallery.

Thank you.