Hello,

I would like to link from the UCNM to open a lightbox showing a thumbnail index of a dynamic gallery. I have checked this forum, but could not find a solution. Same as the button index on the bottom right of the standard lightbox does.
Anyone any advice on this?

Hi Jacques,

Well it is actually pretty easy. Just select as link target dmxLightbox. Save your page and the Lightbox code will be added automatically.

This works for all kind of links not just links from the menu.

If you do need to specify custom Lightbox options then you can open the Lightbox through the Behavior Connector (the paperclip next to the link field in the Universal CSS Navigation Menu. There you can choose action Open DMXzone Lightbox.

Greetings,
George

Ok, I get that. But should I make a seperate page with the thumbnails to load in the lightbox, or first make a lightbox group the regular way to open it with the index?

*** hmm. Dumb respons. Off course I have to [^]

Edited by - Jacques Hoogenboom on 09 Dec 2009  21:17:09

Hi Jacques,

The best thing to do is your first suggestion.

Kind regards, Patrick

Seems I am fuzzing with this:
Steps I took:
- connected the menu to the lightbox with connector. Page to open "lightbox.php". menu url: www.testworks.nl/spectrum/html/abasic3.php
code:

<li title="PORTFOLIO"><a href="javascript:void(0);" class="expandable">PORTFOLIO<span class="sub_down"></span></a>
      <ul class="sub">
        <?php do { ?>
        <li title="<?php echo $row_album_alb['albumnaam']; ?>"><a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="openDMXzoneLightbox('lightbox.php?id_alb=<?php echo $row_album_alb['id_alb']; ?>', {title:'Portfolio', preset:'spectrum'}, window);return document.MM_returnValue"><?php echo $row_album_alb['albumnaam']; ?></a>[/*]
        <?php } while ($row_album_alb = mysql_fetch_assoc($album_alb)); ?>[/list]
    [/*]

- page called lightbox.php with lightbox. (www.testworks.nl/spectrum/html/lightbox.php?id_alb=1 (or 4))

From the menu, a lightbox will open with the tumbnails, but it is not the lightbox index that will show when hitting the index button in lightbox.php. Clicking a thumbnail will have no effect excempt for one, which would be the one with the highest id, but it will open in a regular page within the lightbox instead of a lightbox

I am seeking to get it like this:

Hello Jacques,

The index page that you see in Lightbox is only for what-you-have-in-the-gallery sake. To achieve such a result you need Animated thumbnail gallery. It can look exactly as you want to. Also it will add to your gallery additional user experience.

Regards,

If I understand you right, with animated thumbnail gallery I can get the thumbnails and the full blown images. And when I have the full blown images I can use the button on the left and right to scroll to next and previous full blown images?

Hello Jacques,

Here you can see an example of DMXzone Lightbox combined with Animated Thumbnail Gallery: www.dmxzone.com/demo/ATGlightbox/index.html
Is that what you are looking for?

No, it is not.
Normally you would setup a page with thumbnails like with the gallery thumbnails first like in www.testworks.nl/spectrum/html/lightbox.php?id_alb=1
Then when you click on a thumbnail the lightbox opens with a full blown image.
Just under the righthand bottom corner is a button that will open the "index" in the lightbox. When clicking on one of the thumbnails, the full blown image will show again in the lightbox and I can use the side buttons to move to the next and previous image.
What I would like is to open the "index" from a link in the menu, so that the thumbnails are shown first, etc. etc.

Edited by - Jacques Hoogenboom on 10 Dec 2009  18:04:13

Hi Jacques,

Please check your e-mail.

Kind regards, Patrick

I would like to link to the Lightbox Gallery page's thumbnail collection as well from a text link. Would it be the same as what you emailed Jacques? If so can you share the info with me? Thanks!

I would also like to link to the index like Kevin, so can someone please share the info Partick sent to Jaques or give me the details I need?

Hello Ian,

Please describe a little more detailed what do you need to achieve?

When I click a text link I want it to open Lightbox showing the content of index page for the group. I do not want the text link to open a picture in the reguar way and then have to click on the index button at bottom right, I want the index view to open automatically from the text link.
You can see here each thumbnail opens its own lightbox. What I want is the index file to show when you click a thumbnail instead of having to click the index button at bottom right when Lightbox has opened. www.brodahl-jahren.no/byggmester/ferdigstilte.html

When I click a text link I want it to open Lightbox showing the content of index page for the group. I do not want the text link to open a picture in the reguar way and then have to click on the index button at bottom right, I want the index view to open automatically from the text link.
You can see here each thumbnail opens its own lightbox. What I want is the index file to show when you click a thumbnail instead of having to click the index button at bottom right when Lightbox has opened. www.brodahl-jahren.no/byggmester/ferdigstilte.html

Please go to:
www.dmxzone.com/go/16607/
Click on the videos tab and then watch the following video: Creating Lightbox Gallery with a Single Thumbnail

Thank you for that info, but I want to take it one step further. When I make the Gallery as explained in your video what I want to happen is: click on the one thumbnail then the gallery opens showing the index (all the thumbnails for the entire gallery) and not the larger version of the thumbnail I clicked. What I want to see automatically when I click my one thumbnail is the same as I would see if I clicked the index button that shows bottom right inside the gallery window.

Unfortunately this is not possible.