Question A handful of "How Do I" questions inside please...

• Sort by username... Seems I can only sort by Latest images, Latest Albums, Highest Rated and Most commented.
• Remove/hide the direct image code, bbcode image link, bbcode image, image information box, camera information box. Pretty much that whole sidebar info except for maybe the statistics.
• Add a watermark. On the description page it states the lite version has this capability however I cannot find it in the ACP.
• Change/edit the color and/or even the entire frame of each thumbnail. Thinner, smaller, or none at all?
• Move the "uploaded by:, album:, category:" info onto a single line instead of stacked and possibly on top of the photo
• Is it possible to move the ratings stars under the imagen and still use the vBstyle for the layout... and use smaller stars?
• Can we see a numerical value to the ratings as well. Perhaps under the graphic? For example at the moment we can only see full stars but the actual numerical value of the average rating wouldn't be even. It would be 4.598 for example. This will come in handy later if I decide to offer a contest based on the ratings. This way everyone can see the numerical value brought out to maybe 3 decimal places.
• Is there a way to have a users uploaded photos appear in their regular site profile in a tabbed section. Just the thumbs would be perfect and they can link back to the gallery.
• Can I set up a different layout for the CMS and the forum blocks? One horizontal and one vertical? Or only have one and not the other?

Footman said:

Hello,

I've uploaded the lite version to my test board to work things out before setting up on my live site. I do have some procedure questions and hope you can answer them.

FYI - Please keep in mind for some of the questions below I'm set up using the vBstyle for the Gallery Layout.

How do I??:

• Sort by username... Seems I can only sort by Latest images, Latest Albums, Highest Rated and Most commented.
• Remove/hide the direct image code, bbcode image link, bbcode image, image information box, camera information box. Pretty much that whole sidebar info except for maybe the statistics.
• Add a watermark. On the description page it states the lite version has this capability however I cannot find it in the ACP.
• Change/edit the color and/or even the entire frame of each thumbnail. Thinner, smaller, or none at all?
• Move the "uploaded by:, album:, category:" info onto a single line instead of stacked and possibly on top of the photo
• Is it possible to move the ratings stars under the imagen and still use the vBstyle for the layout... and use smaller stars?
• Can we see a numerical value to the ratings as well. Perhaps under the graphic? For example at the moment we can only see full stars but the actual numerical value of the average rating wouldn't be even. It would be 4.598 for example. This will come in handy later if I decide to offer a contest based on the ratings. This way everyone can see the numerical value brought out to maybe 3 decimal places.
• Is there a way to have a users uploaded photos appear in their regular site profile in a tabbed section. Just the thumbs would be perfect and they can link back to the gallery.
• Can I set up a different layout for the CMS and the forum blocks? One horizontal and one vertical? Or only have one and not the other?

I know these are a lot of questions and some may not be possible with the version as is and may require some customization. Just thought I'd ask and if some customization is needed and can be done, I'll be happy to ask for that also. But I'd like to do as much as I can prior to that step.

Thank you.

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Dylan said:

1. I haven't seen the request to sort by username actually. I'll have to add that. Shouldn't be too hard though If you could add that one as a feature request so I don't forget?

2. You'd need to remove a big chunk of the You can play if you want and try to figure it out or you'd need to tell me exactly what you want gone. If you want to try it, the templates to edit are
dbtech_gallery_view_image_vb
dbtech_gallery_image_edit

3. The colors and type of border are stylevars.
ACP->Styles & Templates->Style Manager
Click Go next to Style Variable Editor
The two you want to play with are in the DragonByteTechMods section and are called
dbtech_gallery_box_border
dbtech_gallery_dropshadow

4. All that info on one line wouldn't fit in the box. I'm working on the next version where you will have the option to set the info to not be on the page and be on hover over the image

5. You could move the stars, but you can't really make them smaller without tweaking some code. The ratings are CSS driven so it expects the star images to be a specific size.

6. Add it as a feature request and I can put it in there Right now it's not possible, it doesn't do the calculation except to the nearest whole number.

7. I'm working on making a replacement/additional profile side block where the albums go for the next version. You might want to add a feature request for the tab with images as I wasn't planning on doing that.

8. There are setting in the general settings tab for different options. The CMS, forumhome and sidebar are all completely separate and you should be able to use one/some/all/none

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