By rotnme on
I'm using fckeditor, icme, filefield, views. Disabled imagefield, image cache. I am able to upload images using fckeditor and convert them to thumbnails. However, once all images in the gallery are loaded to the views I can't click on the thumbnail to show the node. If I enabled imagefield I could set it up to do it but if I do enable it I cannot use fckeditor to upload photos to the body. Thoughts?
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Why would you need to upload
Why would you need to upload images to the body? If you're trying to create an image gallery I would recommend creating a custom content type (CCK) and then use imagefield to upload your image. You could then use imagecache to create whatever size thumbnails you need, and the views module to set up links to the image node.
Good question, I don't know.
Good question, I don't know. I'm new to this and had this set up about a week ago and it blew up on me, lost everything and started over. Previously I believe that is how I had it working. I distinctly remember using fckeditor, thumbnailing it, and spacing the photos. Now I'm having a terrible time. I'm open to any suggestions. I'll go the route you suggested. Question though, I think I can manage content type, imagecache, but not quite sure about setting up links to the node in views. Can you somewhat elaborate? I appreciate it!
Mark
When you select the 'field'
When you select the 'field' in views, you should see a checkbox to link that field to it's node id. Views does take some getting used to but it's well worth your time. I'd suggest installing the Advanced Help module so you can easily reference the Views documentation. There's also the Learning Drupal book which describes in detail how to create an image gallery using cck/views/imagecache.
Thank you. Did what you
Thank you. Did what you suggested and things seem ok. However, hopefully you can help me out, what I'm ultimately trying to do is in my primary links menu I have an item called "our photo galleries", this then trees out to four distinct menus each a different name. What I have currently is a gallery menu in my navigation menu with the four sub-menus listed. I uploaded a couple of photos to one category, when I click on gallery it shows the title of the sub-menu with a bullet and the indication of 2 photos. If I click on it the photos show. My question I guess is two fold, how do I make the photos actually show and how do I get them to show under the primary menu item as a sub-menu. Thanks in advance.
Mark
I actually experimented with
I actually experimented with some stuff and stumbled onto something. I cloned my initial view and changed a few things, created a new page that basically now sits the clone in the primary links menu, I then dragged that to be a submenu to my photo gallery tab. Works fine. Still can't figure out how to have the actual picts show instead of the text link.
Hey, glad that helped. In
Hey, glad that helped. In your view, I think you should see a 'format' option for the field that's now just showing the text link. There should be an option in that drop-down list to select an imagecache preset. That's where you could select a 'thumbnail' preset, for example. At least that's how I remember doing it.
Me too. If I can only get
Me too. If I can only get this image thing figured out I'm good and can really move forward. I looked at the format drop down and I currently have it set as "thumbnail linked to node". My two imagecache presets are thumbnail and preview. I've tried a few different ones in the format pull down but it doesn't change anything. Any ideas? I'm going to keep fooling around and hopefully stumble onto something.
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imo the best image gallery method is described in the http://www.lullabot.com/articles/photo-galleries-views-attach screencast.