By ricksta on

I've just installed the Brilliant Gallery module and Lightbox v2 to go with it and, lo and behold, I can't find any documentation anywhere on it. The link to docs goes to some guy's page that just talk about features, and there's no help files in the drupal installation, or the original readme. Nothing in advanced help either.

Can anyone point me to how to use this thing?

Thanks.

R

Edited by: VM; Moved to appropriate forum

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vm commented

Based on my reading of the developers documentation site there is far more there then "some guy talking about features". There is troubleshooting, installation instruction among other information there.

Provided someone was kind enough to answer the question you've posed, and answered it in the affirmative. What exactly are your questions about the module that the docs aren't answering?

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ricksta commented

Actually I missed the documentation at the bottom of the page. I was looking on the Drupal site. But I still can't see how to create multiple galleries.

I have one up now. Also I can't figure out what he means by, "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."

I also can't see how to create a page with links to the multiple galleries, so users of the site can see a thumb that acts as a link to go to a particular gallery. The end users of the site aren't going to be very computer-friendly, and I'm concerned that they won't know how to manage this.

I'm looking for another gallery module to use that will do more easily what I want.

thanks for your reply. If you have any recommendations for other gallery modules, please let me know.

R

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vacilando commented

I am convinced, ricksta, that if you read the documentation page with thoroughly and patiently you'll see how easy it is to have as many galleries on your page and site as you like, and each of them can be greatly customized.

If there's anything that is actually wrong or missing on that page, please let me know here or via my contact form.

If you find a better module to do this, let us all know which one and why. I mean, I work on and with the Brilliant Gallery because I don't know anything more flexible and easier to set up and maintain.

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ricksta commented

I'm impressed that your contacting me directly regarding your module. I respect that. I'm in the middle of dealing with another project and will get back to you later if I can't figure out what to do.

thanks.

R

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ricksta commented

I've made the directory "/picture_galleries" inside "/files" and have uploaded 2 folders of images inside that directory. I've followed your instructions (steps 1-8) but don't understand what to do after that.

My questions are:

1. I don't know what you mean by "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. "
(I don't know how to put a link to get to each gallery)

2. I'd like to put thumbs that are links to each gallery on a gallery home page layed out in rows, so user can click a thumb and go to that gallery and see the images in that gallery

thanks and I hope you can help.