Part 1: Profile Creation

Enter the profiles section and choose the new profile button.

Each profile is a group of settings. Most sites just have one profile, and this profile is applied to all categories. You can create multiple profiles, and apply one profile to some of the categories, and a different profile to other categories.

If you choose the watermark with text option, please upload a font.ttf file to administrator/components/com_igallery/fonts/font.ttf. You can upload any kind of ttf font file, but it must be renamed to font.ttf.

The menu tab in the profile has the settings for each categories menu image. There is an example of some menu images here.

The main image tab has the settings for the big image in the gallery. If preload large images is set to yes, the gallery will grab a large image in the background, once every 0.7 second. This way the images will be ready to view when a thumb is clicked on.

The main thumbnails tab has the settings for the thumbnails in the gallery (the settings for the lightbox thumbnails are in another tab).

For Jcomments and Jomcomment and AL Ratings integration, the Jcomments/Jomcomment/Al Rating extension must be installed.

Please note, the Joomla 1.6/1.7 version does not have built in comments or ratings. It does have AL Ratings integration, and it does have Facebook comments integration. It will have Jcomments integration when Jcomments release a J16/j17 version.

The lightbox gallery has all the same settings as the main gallery.

If the fit lightbox to window is on, and the browser window is smaller than the gallery, the lightbox will be sized down so all images fit inside the window. This will only happen once on page load.

This tab will appear in the Joomla 1.5 version. In this tab you can control what frontend users/guests can do. The first 2 settings at the top are for control over who can view the galleries, and who can view the menu images. The rest of the settings are for controlling who can add images/categories from the frontend. Please see the Frontend Gallery Creation section for screenshots on how this is done.

This tab will appear in the Joomla 1.6/1.7 version. You can leave the settings as inherit and they will inherit from the component wide access control settings, or you can override the component wide settings if you want some specific settings for this profile. The individual access control settings are described further down in the component paramaters section.

You can create as many profiles as you want.

Part 2: Category Creation

Choose the new category button. The words ‘category’ and ‘gallery’ are interchangeable in Ignite Gallery.

Enter the details for the category.

You can make as many categories as you want, can you can have as many levels of subcategories as you want.

Part 3: Image Adding

Choose the manage photos link.

Press the add files button, and choose the files to be uploaded.

The images will be added to the queue and uploaded one at a time.

After uploading, choose the edit link to edit a images description etc.

Part 4: Comments and Ratings

Please note, the Joomla 1.6/1.7 version does not have built in comments or ratings. It does have AL Ratings integration, and it does have Facebook comments integration. It will have Jcomments integration when Jcomments release a J16/j17 version.

The built in comments can be managed in the backend. It is recommended to use Jcomments integration for more comments features.

The built in ratings can be managed in the backend. It is recommended to use AL Ratings integration for more ratings features.

Part 5: Component Paramaters

Press the paramaters button.

You can choose if the register link within the gallery goes to Joomla or Jomsocial or Community builder.

If you activate mootools 1.2 mode, please activate the mootools upgrade system plugin that comes with Joomla 1.5.20.

If you choose yes for moderation, content added in the frontend will not appear on the site until it is approved by a backend admin. You can add an email address so the backend admin gets notified when new content is added.

If you allow content to be added in the frontend, you can decide which fields frontend users will see.

To avoid choosing the same options every time you add content, you can set the default options here.

There are 3 choices for the uploader: plupload, swfupload, and html5 form. Plupload and swfupload are better because they upload one image at a time, but some servers have security settings that stop them uploading. The html5 form will not have problems with server security, but it does not do multiple upload in Internet explorer, and it uploads all the files in one go, so there is a limit on how many files it can upload in one go.

Both plupload and swfupload can resize before they upload. This is a good feature if you images are big (3MB+) as the server may not have enough resources to resize the big images.

If you choose yes for show import from server, a folder select box will appear under the image uploader, and you can choose a folder to import images from. All the images will be imported into the gallery.

This tab will appear in the Joomla 1.6/1.7 version. The paramaters work the same way as the acl permissions in the Joomla article manager, or in the Joomla weblinks manager. An explanation of the Joomla 1.6 acl is documentated here. If you want users to be able to just edit their own content, please choose No for edit, but yes for edit own. These permissions control both what backend users can do, and what frontend gallery creation users can do.

Part 6: Frontend Display/ Frontend Gallery Creation

There are 2 views to choose from. To display a gallery, choose the category display layout. All the images uploaded to the category will be displayed, or all the child category menu images will be displayed, or both, depending on what category you link to.

To make a menu link to a page where a frontend user can add categories, choose the frontend category creation layout.

There are some screenshots of the frontend gallery creation screens:

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