Photo Gallery - Categories
Photo Categories
Additional categories can be added as desired.
- Go to the administration utility at http://<domain name>/Admin/login/.
- Click on Photo Gallery.
- Click Categories in the navigation menu.
To add a new category:
- Click the New Category (upper right corner).
- Complete the form with the following information:
- Title: Limited to 35 characters. This is the primary name of the category and is displayed in the page title and navigation.
- Abbreviated Title: Limited to 15 characters. This is used in the navigation menus where the title is too long to display properly.
- Description: The description is only displayed for root/main categories.
- Private: Indicates whether or not someone must be logged in with a valid username and password to view the gallery.
- Active: To indicate whether or not you would like the category to be displayed. This can be used to temporarily suspend a gallery or prevent a new gallery from being viewed prior to its release.
- Subcategory Index: Indicates whether categories UNDER this category (i.e. sub-category) will be displayed by category (Yes) or lumped together in the standard list format (No).
- Parent Category(s): For top (highest) level, check A Main Category. To create a subcategory, place a check on as many of the other existing categories as you want.
- Click the Add button (lower left corner).
To edit a category:
- Click the Edit icon (
) next to the category you wish to edit.
(click a category name to view its sub-categories) - Edit the category information as outlined in Step 2 above.
- Click the Update button (lower left corner).
To delete a category:
- Click the Delete icon (
) next to the category you wish to delete.
(click a category name to view its sub-categories) - You will be asked to confirm the deletion of the category.
- Click Yes button if you are sure you would like to delete the category.
- WARNING! Once a category has been deleted, it cannot be recovered!