Yes you can have multiple folder galleries with different content but they all have to start from beneath the FolderGalleries folder

So for example you could have one page with a Folder Gallery with the starting folder set to /FolderGalleries/Gallery1 and another with a starting folder set to /FolderGalleries/Gallery2

The only reason they show the same thing by default is because by default they start at the very root, /FolderGalleries. If you set the starting folder to be a deeper folder then each instance can have different images by having different starting folders.

I'm not sure it works well to have multiple folder galleries on the same page, but on different pages it should be fine.

Hope it helps,

Joe

Hi,

I "think" its trying to create that folder but can't. You could try creating the folder, it needs to be wriatable as thats where it creates thumbnails and web size images from the full size originals.

You can put your web sites anywhere on your hard drive, it does not have to be in C:\inetpub\wwwroot, that is just the default location, I never put mine there. The important thing is wherever you point it, IIS and asp.net must have read permission on the whole web root folder and full control on the Data folder.

Though the web site can live anywhere on your drive, the images must live beneath the web for it to work at all because its just creating html and links that point to those images so it can only point to images that are being served from the web.

I've locked it down so it can only access files and folders beneath /Data/Sites/[SiteID]/FolderGalleries because if its not locked down this feature can be used to browse all the folders in the web site by hacking the urls in its links. It can only browse images, but it also could show the entire folder structure of your web if it were not locked down.

I integrated this feature from this Photo Handler project on Codeplex. I had to modify it quite a bit for the integration and I have no plans to keep up with changes in that project. I also have no immediate plans of doing any improvements on this feature because I have too many other plans with higher priorities. To me the beauty of this feature is that it has no database components at all, you just point it at the folder with full size images and it creates a nice display with thumbnails. So there is nowhere to store labels or any other text related to the images without adding database logic to this feature and that adds complexity and work.

I'm not sure about what it would take to style it differently and unfortunately don't really have time to investigate that right now. The thing is very self contained, it writes in its own css from code and the styles may be hard coded, I'm not 100% sure.

Best,

Joe

I'm sure it could be done in code somehow just like it does in the thumbnails where it draws up arrows I'm sure it could be modified to show a watermark. If you want to implement that and contribute your mods back to the project it would be great.  Maybe it could read some text from Web.config and write it into the bottom of the images as a watermark that would be cool.

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Best,

Joe