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2/6/2008 3:51 PM

	js360160
6 posts

Ultra Media Gallery Integration

I have an article linked to an Ultra Media Gallery album, and I’m displaying the article in an Engage Publish module where Type of Display = ‘Article Display’.

I see that I can use CSS ‘#articleThumbnails img’ to control how the album’s thumbnails are positioned ( #article {float:left; or float:right;} ) and how the thumbnails are arranged ( #articleThumbnails img {display:block; or display:inline;} .

A few questions:

1. How can I get the thumbnails to appear BELOW the article? I'm not very experienced with CSS but it seems I wouldn't be able to accomplish this with CSS because

comes before the

tags for the article title and text in ArticleDisplay.ascx. I'm assuming the only way to get those thumbnails below the article would be to re-arrange ArticleDisplay.ascx, and that would not be advisable because it would get overwritten when there's an upgrade to the Engage Publish module. Am I understanding all this correctly? Is there a good way to accomplish this?

2. Is there any way to have the Ultra Media Gallery viewer control appear on the same page as the article INSTEAD of displaying thumbnails with no gallery viewer interface wrapped around them? Since I’m using a single page to display whatever article the user clicked in a list of article links, the gallery viewer control would have to dynamically pull images from the album that is linked to the current article.

3. Is there a way to designate one image (either an image from the linked album or just an image uploaded to on the server) as the featured image for an article and have that image appear in a specified size somewhere within or near the article text ?

Thanks!

2/6/2008 9:56 PM

	Chris Hammond
873 posts

Re: Ultra Media Gallery Integration

#1 you are correct, your best option right now would be to force it to the bottom of the articledisplay.ascx file, though you do run the risk of upgrade issues.

#2 The only way you could do this at this point would be to setup a specific page for each article that needs a gallery module on it, and setup that page as the "display page" for that particular article.

#3 Currently there isn't a way to have an image included without just putting it into the HTML of the article itself.

We're looking at a token system for a future version of Publish that might be a step closer to providing this type of functionality.

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11/30/2008 6:09 AM

	Worth Robbins
7 posts

Re: Ultra Media Gallery Integration

Has this answer changed with later versions of Publish?

12/1/2008 2:13 PM

	Chris Hammond
873 posts

Re: Ultra Media Gallery Integration

This hasn't changed as we haven't made any UMG changes in Publish in quite a while. We're slating the token system for our next major release after the 5.3 release which we hope to have ready this week.

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