Photo Gallery Pro Magento Extension by Amasty | User Guide

User Guide: Photo Gallery Pro
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Photo Gallery Pro
Magento Extension
User Guide
Official extension page: Photo Gallery Pro
Support: http://amasty.com/contacts/

Table of contents:
1. New Album Creation: General Settings.………...……………..………….. 3
2. New Album Creation: Meta Data………………………….……..………….. 6
3. New Album Creation Display Settings……………………………………….7
4. New Album Creation: Album View Page……..………….……………….. 8
5. New Album Creation: Album Listing Settings…………………………….9
6. New Album Creation: Photo View Page Settings……………………….12
7. New Album Creation: Photo Listing Settings…………………………….13
8. New Album Creation: Custom Design………………………………………14
9. New Album Creation: Sizes……………………………………………………..15
10. Manage Photos……………………………………………………………………..17
11. Multiupload Option……………………………………………………………….24
12. Assign Albums to Products…………………………………………………….26
13. Gallery Configuration…………………………………………………………….27
14. Examples………………………………………………………………………………32
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1. New Album Creation: General Settings
“Gallery” album is the
main parent album for all
other albums. It can’t be
removed, but the title can
be changed. To add Root
album (that still will be
child of the main “Gallery”
album) click the “Add Root
Album“ button.
To create a new album
please go to: Gallery >
Manage Albums

Specify Name and
URL key for your new
album.
Images can be
uploaded from your
computer or
inserted as a link to
the file on server.
Display album only
to registered users
or to all site visitors
(if set to ‘Yes’ a field
for customer group
selection appears).

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Specify short and full
description for your
album.
Display album only for
specified Store view.

Enter meta keywords and description
for each album page for better site
optimization.
2. New Album Creation: Meta Data

If this option is set to ‘Yes’,
the ‘Display settings’ will be
taken from the parent
album.
3. New Album Creation: Display Settings
Select CMS block to be
displayed on album page.
Specify which elements
should be displayed on
album page and set their
order.

Specify which information
will be displayed on album
page – title, image, renewal
date, short description, full
description.
4. New Album Creation: Album View Page

Enable toolbar
settings (Display Top
Toolbar and Display
Bottom Toolbar).
5. New Album Creation: Album Listing Settings
Specify default sorting to be
used at album display.
Top and bottom
toolbar display
toggle.
Indicate sorting
options available for
user in toolbar.
Set image layout to
display (Grid, List,
Simple) in tool bar and
ordering.

Specify default sorting
order direction to be
used at album display.
Set amount of columns
for album display Grid
and Simple layout
types.
Set image layout to
display (Grid, List,
Simple) in tool bar and
ordering.

Enable date display for
different album list
display type (Display
Update Date On Grid,
Display Update Date
On List, Display
Update Date On
Simple).
Enable short
description display
for different album
list display types
(Display Short
Description On Grid,
Display Short
Description On List,
Display Short
Description On
Simple).
Enable title display
for different album
list layout types
(Display Name On
Grid, Display Name
On List, Display Name
On Simple).
Enable “Show” link
display for different
album list display types
(Display Name On
Grid, Display Name On
List, Display Name On
Simple).

6. New Album Creation: Photo View Page Settings
Specify elements (Photo,
List) and order to
display.
Set the number of
images to display on
image list page for
current image.
Use these settings to
display information on
the image page.
Use sorting to display
images of the album to
which the current image
belongs.

7. New Album Creation: Photo Listing Settings
These settings are
used for child album
image list display.

8. New Album Creation: Custom Design
If this option is set to
‘Yes’, the ‘Custom
Design’ settings will be
taken form parent
album.
Specify album page
design settings.
Indicate layout to be
used for album page.

9. New Album Creation: SizesThe tab contains
settings for album
image sizes and child
image sizes.
‘Yes’, the ‘Sizes’
settings will be taken
form parent album.
For all image sizes
width is indicated in
the first field and
height is indicated in
the second field. All
sizes are in pixels.

9. New Album Creation: SizesThe area contains
settings for child
images of the current
album.
Child photo size that
will be displayed on the
product view page.
Photo thumbnail size
for image album list on
image view page.
Photo Thumbnail
Size On Grid, Photo
Thumbnail Size On
List, Photo
Thumbnail Size On
Simple –photo
thumbnail size for
different image list
layout types.

10. Manage PhotosThe image
management grid
contains the list of
images that can be
sorted by different
parameters.
It’s also possible to:
- Set image display order within album. To do so: 1)
sort list of images in required album; 2) set image
position within the album (input fields in ‘Position’
column); 3) select from dropdown list ‘Actions’
option “Save positions”
- Change image status (Enable, disable). To do so
select images from list to change status and select
“Change status” option in ‘Actions’ dropdown.
Additional dropdown “Status” will appear to elect
status there.
- Remove images. To do so select images to delete
and select “Delete” option in ‘Actions’ dropdown.

10. Manage Photos
Specify unique key
that will be used as
URL for the image.
Leave the field empty
to generate unique
key based on “Name”
field.
Images can be
uploaded from your
computer or inserted
as a link to the file on
server.

10. Manage Photos
Display image only for
registered users or all
site visitors (if set to
Yes a field for
customer group
selection appears).
Display image only for
specified Store view.
Specify full image
description.
The description is
displayed in image
cart in the image
list. Display can be
turned off/on on
the gallery
configuration
page.

10. Manage PhotosThe tab provides
functionality to assign
image to different
albums and set image
position for each
album separately.

10. Manage PhotosThe tab contains image
layout stings.
‘Yes’, parent album
settings will be applied.
The settings are similar
to the album settings
described above.

10. Manage PhotosThe tab contains image
page design settings.
The settings are similar
to the album settings
described above.

10. Manage PhotosThe tab contains
settings for image sizes.
Specify the size of
image on the image
view page.
Specify size of images
displayed in the image
list on image view
page.
NOTE: For all image sizes width
is indicated in the first field and
height is indicated in the second
field. All sizes are in pixels.

11. Multiupload OptionThe page contains
functionality for fast
image upload and
assignment to albums.
Define image title
selection that will be
displayed on
Frontend. In case
“Use image filename”
option enabled the
file title will be used
for image title.
Define image
location. In case
“Upload package file”
image enabled, it is
possible to upload
package (zip archive
containing images)
from user computer.

11. Multiupload OptionThe page contains
functionality for fast
image upload and
assignment to albums.
In case “Enter a title”
option is enabled –
image title will be
generated
automatically based
on word set in field
appeared.
In case “Create from directory”
option is enabled, images will be
taken from folder on server
indicated in “Directory” field. It is
possible to set image removal from
folder after upload.
NOTE: During multiupload pay
attention to the image sizes and
amount as some servers may have
limitations on operation time and
that will cause errors during the
multiupload process.

12. Assign Albums to Products
To assign gallery albums to a
product (images of connected
albums displayed on product page)
go to product edit page, open
“Gallery Albums” tab and select
required albums in album tree.

13. Gallery Configuration
Indicate folder title to
store images on server.
Enable jQuery used by
gallery. The option is
used in case another
extension already uses
jQuery on site.

Define images to be
displayed in overlay
window (lightbox) –
only images on current
page or all images from
album (“Photos of
current album” will
cause additional server
and bandwidth load
and therefore page
load time.
Enable automatic
slideshow start in
overlay window
(lightbox).
Define time interval for
image change in
slideshow.

Set path to the galley in
URL.
Set gallery suffix.
Example: in case
“Gallery URL” field has
meaning ‘my-gallery’
and in “Gallery Url
Suffix” contains ‘.html’,
the main gallery page
will be available by
URL http://www.your-
site.com/my-
gallery.html , other
gallery pages will have
URL http://www.your-
site.com/my-
gallery/another-page

NOTE: Album View Options, Album Listing Options, Photo View
Options, Photo Listing Options, Image Size
All these settings define default album and image display and sizes.
They are used if album or image settings of these options are set to
“Use Config Settings”. The settings are described above.

All these settings are similar to the album
settings described above.

14. Examples
The extension allows you to link any album to
the product page.

14. Examples
The extension allows you to create albums/child
albums on a separate page and organize your
images based on category, topic or other
parameters.

Thank you!
Your feedback is absolutely welcome!
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Should you have any questions or feature suggestions, please contact us at:
http://amasty.com/contacts/

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