About using image field or minigallery

Hello!

the existing image field is really complex in functionality..
It would be awesome:

1.)adding a folder-name for import, gallery gets rendered automatically like:

if i use a joomla gallery-content-plugin as field and activate it through prefix and suffix for insert the plugins brackets and enter the folder name of the images i had transfered via FTP a gallery gets contructed automatically.

the photo-content-PLUGINS in JED are mostly awefull.
in j1.5 there was smoothgallery-plugin which was good

so if flexicontent would get some modern gallery-theme and acting like "create gallery from folder"..dreams would come true and problems solved for me

greetings

Hello

the existing image-gallery field is really complex in functionality

about complex,

it is meant to compete with standalone gallery components,

it integrates gallery management into the articles instead so instead of having 2 components, 1 for content and 1 for images you have 1

finally, it has several parameters to avoid asking our non-programmers users to do programming work


spending some time to read the parameter descriptions is not too much, we spend endless time developing this and other part of FLEXIcontent

about minigallery, it is a field that remains mostly for compatibility reasons, the image-gallery field is meant to be used in most cases


-- about your question,
the image field has usage 2 modes:
DB-mode, folder-mode (you can have multi-uploaded here)

folder-mode is already modified to support specific folders, this will be enabled in a future version, for now you need to use the specific folder created by our current folder mode which is: (field_id + item_id)

Regards

thank you for clearifying that image field has more component functionality than joomla-content-plugin!

the decisions in developing the extension are very difficult for sure(joomla updates, backend, frontend, usability, etc)

i keep an eye on this extension for 2 year now nearly every svn update...which is nearly every day.

the feature i requested is mainly important for a site which gets set up completely through a csv-import-file, in this case a field with foldername, organizing images itself doesnt matter that much this way.(only put them in their folders)
without the need of stumbling around in the joomla-backend for hours.


For the styling of the gallery, elastislide looks good for modification , prefix+suffix-open+close will allow to develp/implement other jquery-gallery for me i guess
will look at this..