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I have a gallery with multiple categories.  I have no idea how many images are in a particular category.  I want to display *all* thumbnails for the category that the user can click on.  I can’t find anything in the gallery documentation that tells me how to show everything - it insists on having “columns and rows” and setting limits - but no way to show all images.

Any help?

Thanks,

Jon

I am having the exact same issue ... my temporary solution was to output a higher number of rows than i thought i might need (always) ... not elegant.

someone please help us with this. very annoying. heh

I can’t think of a way to do it using standard tags- leaving off the row/col will result in the default of ‘3’ being used.  Thus the only standard option would be to up the col/row to as high as you’re likely to need.

You could work around it using a query- and it would likely be possible to use some php to come up with the actual number of rows/cols needed to fit all of your images and use that in the standard tag.  It’s also possible it could be done via extension, though in truth, I didn’t look hard at the options there.

Keep in mind that for most folks, they really will want a limit on the number shown per page- particularly with images, if you have a lot of them, page load will slow down due to factors outside of EE.  I personally would limit it to 10-12 thumbs max.  This is likely why the issue hasn’t come up before- at least to my knowledge.  That said- if two of you are looking to do the same thing, it might be a good idea to put in a feature request for this ability.

I personally don’t think EE’s API should default with such a limitation, it should be as open as can be. But I also understand EE might have had good reason for doing so. Who am I to judge.

😉  If you’re using the software, you’re in the perfect place to make a judgment.  Though in this case, what you’re shooting for, I’d advise against.  That said- it wouldn’t hurt to make a feature request.  The crew does pay attention.  (And like I say- if it’s mission critical, it could be worked around via a query.)

I think it’s the assumption that we’ll be putting X number of thumbnails in some sort of “grid” (columns/rows) that make it odd to hack around it.  There are many javascript “lightbox” style image galleries where you can throw up a whole bunch of thumbnails without actually retrieving the full sized images.  The total download size for a bunch of thumbnails really isn’t that much - which is why I had hoped for a way to just pull ‘all’.
 
I’ll make it a feature request.

So, what if we are not using a table structure at all, instead using CSS floats.  Is there any way to display all thumbnails from a category or gallery?

This seems like very basic functionality.

Thanks!

You still need to have a limit, and/or columns and rows, so you’re still going to have a limit.

I’m going to move this up to the how-to forum to see if anyone has ideas for you on this. =)

Thanks Lisa.  But, when I increase the limit to a number higher than the number of thumbnails I have, only one is still showing.

{exp:gallery:entries gallery="photos" category="4" limit="8" orderby="random"}

<div class="thumbs">

<ul> 
     <li><a href="http://fullplate.htm">{thumb_url}<span>{title}</span></a></li> 
</ul>

</div>

{/exp:gallery:entries}

You’re using a single-entry style, you need to use the multi-entry style.  =)

That would probably help 😊

As far as I can tell from the /docs is that the only difference between the mulit-entry style and the single-entry style is the “entries” opening and closing tags.  Is this correct or am I missing something?

When I added those tags to my markup, the page produced two areas for thumbnails, but no images (I believe I have four thumbnail images in this category.  Markup below:

{exp:gallery:entries gallery="photos" category="4" limit="8" orderby="random"}

{entries}

<div class="thumbs">

<ul> 
      <li><a href="http://fullplate.htm">{thumb_url}<span>{title}</span></a></li> 
</ul>

</div>


{/entries}

{/exp:gallery:entries}

It’s also the presence of the rows variable pair.  Have a bit more of a look at it; I’d even recommend copying/pasting that and changing from there - test after each change until you have what you want. =)