Application Store - Image gallery

1. Installation

1.1. ImageMagick

ImageMagick is used for improving performance when scaling images and can be installed as part of the Intrexx setup. You can install ImageMagick afterwards at any time when you modify the Intrexx installation via the system settings. Click on the link Click here to see important installation notices and then, in the second dialog, on the link to install it. Follow the instructions in the installation wizard from ImageMagick.

1.2. IIS-settings

If you use an IIS web server, you can only upload and download smaller files in the browser to begin with. You therefore need to adjust the file size limitations (size specified in bytes) if required. This is achieved as follows:

Open the Computer Management and there, "Services and Applications". In the Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager, please adjust the "ASP Limit Properties":

For uploads: Maximum Requesting Entity Body Limit
For downloads: Response Buffering Limit

The changes take effect without restarting the WWW Publishing Service. In addition to these settings, that enable file transfers up to about 60MB, larger file transfers can also be enabled with another setting. This is done by entering a corresponding byte value in the ASP Limit Properties and then in the file "applicationHost.config". Open the following folder as the Administrator:

c:\windows\system32\inetsrv

Then perform the following command line, for example for 100MB: 
Appcmd set config /section:requestfiltering/requestlimits.maxallowedcontentlength:100000000

1.3. Import

To use the application, you require at least Intrexx 8 with all Online Updates.

1.3.1. Application




Import the file "ix-image-gallery.zip" downloaded from the Application Store, this contains the application and the process. Please keep the setting "Import with permissions" so that the predefined application permissions are transferred. Enter your license key for the application in the next step.

1.3.2. Permissions




The application permissions can be assigned next. Usually, the default settings can be applied. The permissions can be modified later in the Users module.

User group "Benutzer" (Users)

Can be assigned to the user group "User" which can be found in every portal. Members of this group may view images, write comments and submit ratings.

User group "Bildergalerie-Administratoren" (Image Gallery administrators)

Members may manage albums, galleries and images.

1.3.3. Process

Import the included process in the final step.

2. Using the application




Bring your pictures into the spotlight! With the Image Gallery for Intrexx you can create any number of galleries. And so that your images are well organized, arrange your albums into categories. You can use the comment function to explain the graphics and pictures.

2.1. Create new category

On the application's homepage, members of the user group Bildergalerie-Administratoren have access to the button "Create new category".



This button opens a page where you can enter a title and description for your new category. You can also upload a preview image.



The category is created when you click on "Save". To the right, beneath the preview image, you will find a button that shows links that you can use to edit the category or create a gallery. Click on "Create new gallery".



Define the title, description and preview image here. Select the category of your choice. You can also determine that the EXIF files of the images will be displayed here. Click on "Next".



You can now add any number of images to your gallery.



Afterwards, you can adjust the sorting of the images and save the gallery. If Intrexx Share is installed in your portal, a Share post will be generated once the gallery has been created.

2.3. Edit existing galleries




If you would like to edit the properties of a gallery, click on the button on the bottom right of the preview image and then on "Edit gallery". New images can be added and the entire gallery can be delted from here as well. To view gallery, simply click on a preview image of name of a gallery on the application's homepage.



You can see each image of the gallery here. You can edit, delete or view more information about an image via the button. If the title couldn't be read from the EXIF data, the titles can be entered manually here. Comments can be entered by clicking on the comment button.



After clicking on an image, you can use the navigation buttons to switch between the individual images in a gallery. You can also start a slideshow from here by clicking on the play button at the bottom right.