Views Gallery
This module pulls together the techniques Jeff Eaton outlined in http://www.lullabot.com/articles/photo-galleries-views-attach to automatically create a simple gallery where each gallery is a node with an embedded view of images that were assigned to that gallery. The module creates the content types, sets up the imagecache presets, creates the default gallery view that is embedded into the gallery nodes by Views Attach, and adds css to make it all look nice. Note that we have changed some field and content type names from the original example and have added numerous other features. This module is an alternative to setting it all up manually from the screencast. Here the module sets things up for you using the same techniques.
This technique also works well to create individual image galleries for Organic Groups, since the gallery and image content types can be configured as group nodes. Views Gallery OG, included in this package, provides a setup page to make it easy to automatically create a gallery for every group and adds group context to the forms wherever possible so the right groups and group galleries are pre-selected when you create gallery images.
The following modules provide the nuts and bolts for this to work. It is a long list of modules, but there is little or nothing you need to do except make sure the latest versions of all these modules are available when you install Views Gallery and everything will be installed and configured for you. Plus, most of them are modules you will probably use elsewhere.
If the Custom Pagers module is enabled, back/next links will be added to the image nodes.
If the Lightbox2 module is enabled, a 'View Slideshow' link will be added to the gallery view, which will bring up a lightshow of the gallery images.
If the Views Slideshow module (version 6.2) is enabled, a Views Slideshow block is added to the default view.
This module has been sponsored by Buzzr.
Releases
| Official releases | Date | Size | Links | Status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6.x-1.2 | 2009-Oct-31 | 14.47 KB | Download · Release notes | Recommended for 6.x |  |
