By ricksta on

I've installed gallery assist and related modules and I can't get lightbox to work. Also I've tried highslide as well. All modules are configured but the option in the extras tab for gallery assist shows no options for either.

does anyone have a clue as to what is going on?

Also, I would like to set up a gallery home page that has links to the different galleries and I couldn't see how to do that.

thanks.

R

⋅ Categories: Drupal 6.x

Comments

suffering drupal’s picture

suffering drupal commented

Hi, here the same.
I have been experimenting for weeks just to find the one good Image/Gallery combination for a multilingual tourist website. AND with the intention to show the image-gallery together with the content, not an independent click to the gallery.
Up to now the best was Node-Gallery, but it has no translation options (images disappear for new translation, have to upload again).

Gallery Assist solves that problem, introduces new ones however:
1 - Indeed, does not work with Lightbox2 (this is overcomable but less atractive for the visitors)
2 - Apparently no pathauto/alias options for the individual images (overcomable too, but less SEO)
3 - No taxonomy possibility (just an observation, wasn't really looking for that)

I just would like to get it working exactly like the example pages: at http://simple.puntolatinoclub.de/category/gallery-assist/examples/exampl... or http://simple.puntolatinoclub.de/content/another-gallery-gallery-assist. Looks simple but I don't achieve it. What Lightbox does it use?
Maybe starting from zero would help, but that's hardly an option..

I started with Drupal in 2007 and then my life got stuck...

suffering drupal’s picture

suffering drupal commented

Oh ohh, now I also found that the gallery causes a bit of problem in the teaser. It shows all pictures and flows out of the boundaries of the teaser's border....
How did Juan Carlos get it so nice an neat at http://simple.puntolatinoclub.de/category/gallery-assist/examples/exampl... is it only Drupal or is Cooliris so good?

I started with Drupal in 2007 and then my life got stuck...

chopper72’s picture

chopper72 commented

Hey guys, i am using Lytebox:

http://www.dolem.com/lytebox/

Copy the expanded folder into the Lightbox folder of Gallery Assist.

enjoy!!

chopper

suffering drupal’s picture

suffering drupal commented

@chopper
I finally got several lightboxes working on my site, each with a particular problem, but even so...
In Lytebox the settings options do not appear, same for you??
I stick to Lyteshow for the moment!
More on the parallel issue: http://drupal.org/node/631294#comment-2329788

I started with Drupal in 2007 and then my life got stuck...

emcniece’s picture

emcniece commented

After playing around with GA Lightbox and Colorbox, I've found that the latest updated modules don't play nice with each other. As a compromise, I've had to use earlier versions of the required modules to get everything to work. Not sure if this holds true in every case, but seemed to work for me.

http://www.emc2innovation.com/projects/node/73

As for making a gallery home page, you can make it using views. After you do that, it's not a stretch to make a block view as well - quite handy! Just in case you needed another gallery block ;)

Good luck!

Devo’s picture

Devo commented

Hi Guys...
Had the same problem for a while, but have since retrieved my laptop from where I threw it in frustration.
In the end, I find that most of it was failure to RTFM.
The following worked for me, give it a try:

This assumes that you already have GalleryAssist and GA lightboxes modules installed

1. download, install (in sites/all/modules), and enable the JQuery updater 6.x-1.1 MODULE http://drupal.org/project/jquery_update
2. download, install (in sites/all/modules), and enable the Lightbox2 6.x-1.9 MODULE http://drupal.org/project/modules?text=lightbox
3. go to Administer>GalleryAssist and click the extras tab. click Lightboxes for Gallery Assist section. in the lightboxes dropdown lightbox should be there now.
4. select lightbox, save, and view your gallery... poof it works.

I find if you download the other liteboxes (from http://drupal.org/project/gallery_assist_lightboxes... but NOT Lightbox2!) and unzip them each in their own folder in sites/all/modules/gallery_assist_lightboxes/lightboxes they should also be available and work.. I've gotten lytebox, lyteshow, thickbox to work... have yet to try the others

ricksta’s picture

ricksta commented

thanks, I'll give that a try.

R

Sevigny’s picture

Sevigny commented

Maybe got something to do wit the code in templa

joran lafleuriel’s picture

joran lafleuriel commented

Thanks Devo !

For instance, the Colorbox plug'in must be installed INSIDE the folder lightboxes that you find in the gallery_assist_lightboxes module folder. Something like that : /modules/gallery_assist_lightboxes/lightboxes/colorbox

...If the plug'in is only in sites/all/librairies... you can't get it when you have to choose your lightbox in gallery assist extras

Note that the Colorbox configuration from admin>settings>colorbox>advanced parameters is configured with the path sites/all/libraries/colorbox
...I tried to remove this first occurence of the plugin but I get some errors... so I decided to keep the both installation...

I did not finished my tests yet about this but it seems to fix the problem : I could get a quick preview of my gallery with Colorbox functionalities.

What about having a copy ? It seems dangerous for upgrades....