A gallery is a collection of albums. It serves one purpose: to group albums together as a single collection for a slideshow. There are two types of galleries: "Custom" and "Smart." A Custom gallery is one you create and populate with albums. You may add or remove any album from a custom gallery. A Smart gallery is created by SlideShowPro Director and populated automatically. The content a smart gallery contains cannot be changed, nor can a smart gallery be deleted.
Galleries are managed in the "Galleries" index. It is here that new galleries are created, and existing galleries are deleted. All galleries are displayed by default, but if you're searching for a specific gallery you may filter the list through the "Search" utility above the table. You may also click on the "Galleries," "Type," "Albums," "Modified" and "Created" headers to vertically sort the list according to that column's criteria.
Clicking on an gallery title will open that gallery for editing.
There are two types of galleries you can create: "Custom" and "Smart."
Custom galleries are manual collections of albums. You manage what albums are a part of custom galleries by using the "Manage albums" screen.
Smart galleries are aggregators of albums using rules. They are auto-updating and dynamically populate using criteria defined by you; including date created and tags. You can also limit the results to only custom albums or only smart albums.
Clicking a gallery title from most pages within Director will load the "Edit gallery" section for that particular gallery. There are two sub-areas within this section: "Settings" and "Manage albums."
"Settings" provides inputs to set an gallery's title and description, as well as a button to copy the gallery's XML File Path. The Settings page also displays which albums are in a gallery, and in what order they appear when loaded in a slideshow.
"Manage albums" is where you decide which albums are included or excluded in a gallery. In the case of Custom galleries, this would include any active album that is available for publishing. In the case of Smart albums, this would include the rule editor and preview window to dynamically choose albums.
Click the "Add albums" button at the top right of the Manage albums area. A dialogue window will appear containing all of the active albums that are available for inclusion in the gallery. Click the light-switch button to the left of the album(s) you wish to include.
To remove albums from a gallery, click the light-switch button at the top-right of the album box. It will be removed from the gallery.
Like album content, you can manually or automatically control the order of albums in a gallery. The order that is established here will be used when populating the gallery section of SlideShowPro. To manually sort, click and hold on an album title and drag the album into the position you want. To automatically sort, click on "Album title," "Date created" or "Date modified". With auto-sorting turned on, any new albums you include in a gallery will automatically fall into the proper order (depending on which sorting option you chose).