TTG Client Response Gallery 2.0

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TTG Client Response Gallery 2.' (Final) is available now from The Turning Gate.

TTG Client Response Gallery exists to facilitate the exchange of information between photographers and their clients, and requires Lightroom 2.x or greater.

The gallery employs FormToEmail.com's FormToEmail PHP script to collect data from clients, including image selections, image ratings, individual image comments and more. The gallery employs HighSlide to allow side-by-side large-size image previews without disrupting form input, and (optionally) also allows clients to download a copy of each image to their own machine. The gallery's features include:
  • FormToEmail powered delivery for client feedback
  • HighSlide-driven large image previews and response panes
  • Viewing of multiple large-size images at once for side-by-side comparison
  • BoxOver tooltips to help visitors
  • Selection checkboxes
  • Automatic detection of color labeling from the Library module
  • Optional download of hi-res image renditions
  • Every element can be toggled on/off
  • Individual comment areas for each image
  • Client assignable ratings
  • Custom checkbox arrays
  • Input areas for name, email address and general comments
  • Valid XHTML, CSS, etc. as is the norm for TTG galleries
  • Auto detected by TTG XML Auto Index
  • And more!
After a long development period and multiple incarnations, this is the final 2.' release, the full-featured template.

A great many thanks to all of the users who have tested this template and offered feedback for improvement over the course of development. We wouldn't have reached this point without your input!

On a personal note, this will be my final template release from South Korea. I fly back to the U.S. on Saturday, August 2 and will begin classes at the Hallmark Institute of Photography in September. I'd like to thank everyone who has donated to my work so far. Your contributions will be of great help to me during this transition. The next time I release something, it will be from the U.S. of A. I'm not entirely sure how I feel about that. ;)

View sample gallery.

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Please post all conversation regarding this release to this thread. Older conversation, leading up to version 2.', can be found in the old thread.
 
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Blank Spaces in Web Gallery

I made a test gallery this morning and there are some blank areas where thumbnails should be. Here is a link so that you can see what I mean.

Any chance that you will be adding sub-galleries and splitting large galleries in to defined sizes to prevent scrolling. So for example we could say the gallery would be 5 columns by 3 rows and then there would be pages of the same size gallery rather than 1 long gallery.

Thanks again for this gallery.
 
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Safariguy,

The link you provided leads to a 4'4 error, absent page.

As for the pagination issue, no. HTML forms cannot span multiple pages. For the Client Response Gallery to work as intended, the gallery must exist as a single page.
 
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Hello,

Love the look of the new TTG Client Response Gallery 2.' - unfortunately I'm not having much luck getting it to work.

Only the very first thumbnail appears, followed by the following error text:

?:': attempt to get length of a number value

Switch View
  • ...Gallery\TTGClientResponseGallery\thumbnailindex.html:132: in function 'func'
  • ?: in function 'ThumbnailGridFunc'
  • ...Gallery\TTGClientResponseGallery\thumbnailindex.html:179: in main chunk
  • <% --[[ Include the page head]] %>
Happy to help with the debugging if needed...

Using LR2 retail, Vista64, 8GB RAM, Quad core q66''.


Regards,

Mike
 
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Safariguy,

I see what's happening now. Because the thumbnails are aligned using the CSS float:left function, the gap is occurring where the image ID has wrapped to two lines. The subsequent images and their containing boxes are hitting the corners of the larger boxes and staying there. Not a problem I had anticipated, and I'll have to think about possible solutions.

In the meantime, the fix is either to get all of your image IDs to take up two lines, or to keep them all on a single line.


Mike,

Can you post a screenshot of the problem?
 
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Thanks for the explanation. I had fixed it accidentally and did not know how.

In my Menu Item, the links default to opening in a new window, I tried adding code to open the link in the same window, but that did not work for me. I am trying to make a link back to the gallery index page as a menu item.

Code: 
<a href="[url]http://www.richardbadgerphoto.com/test"[/url] target="_blank">
 
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Hi Matt,

Here is a screen capture:

moz-screenshot.jpg
moz-screenshot-1.jpg



If I expand the matt/border to the max, I get to see the full message as per my previous post.

I think it may be related to the OP's problem, as it works ok on some images. I will experiment and see if it related to filename length.

Mike
 
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Hello,

I can't see any obvious reason for this problem - some of my images work ok, most get the error in the screenshot above.

To help, I have zipped up the website amd uploaded as a .txt - (you need to rename to .zip to open)

Regards,

Mike
 
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Safariguy:

The menu opens pages in a new window as a way of preventing users from accidentally clicking out of the gallery and losing their form input by loading a new page. If you are really set on having pages open in the same window, just remove the target="_blank" from the hyperlinks. I don't recommend this, though.

mikethicke:

I had a look at the code for your gallery. From what I can tell, the error is occurring due to some problem with your tooltips content. As a test, I want you to disable the "Show Tooltips on Hover" option, located in the Color Palette pane and see whether the gallery will load error free at that point.

If so, then I'm wondering whether your metadata contains any unusual characters -- quotation marks, or something else -- that might be breaking the page when it gets inserted into your tooltips.

As another test, re-enable the tooltips, then use the Image Settings pane to change the source for the onHover Thumbnail Title and Text options.

Please let me know the outcome of these tests.
 
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Hello,

New screen capture attached.

I disabled the Tool Tips as you can see in the screen capture.
Sadly, not only did this not solve the problem, but html code now appears as a tooltip.
BTW, I can't see any special characters in any of my metadata.

Note that this behavior occurred immediately I installed and opened the template for the first time, prior to me changing any settings, so I don't think its something I've screwed up...

Next suggestions? (Thanks for your help)

Mike
 
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I'm not using any forms so I don't think this will be an issue. Is there a way to do this globally rather than editing each index.php?

Thanks again.
 
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Same glitch as Safariguy... please help.

I am having the same problem as Safariguy. I am receiving gaps in my LR2 preview screen as well. Any ideas how to go about fixing it? I don't know where to fix the image ID's you mentioned...? There are so many options, I'm not sure where to go to change/find them..


Also to mikethicke, I had that same problem as well, and it seemed to be fixed after I unchecked "onHover Color Text" in the Image Info panel. Hope that helps.

Nick




Safariguy;18'92 said:
I'm using Firefox 3, and IE7. Even on the LR2 preview screen their is a gap.

screen.jpg
Click to expand...
 
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Nick

Matt meant that my file names were in some cases too long. When I made them all the same length my problem was fixed. Look at the 1st 2 waterfallpics and then the tulips and you can see the difference in the file name box.

Hope that helps.
 
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Ahhh. thanks!! I got it now.

Also, anyone that may know the answer to this now: I had Just-In-Time debugger running, but had to disable debugging after ALOT of popups whenever I would try to adjust Image Settings (ie Image Width/Height/etc..) I would have to click cancel on the popups numerous times.

I'm just wondering why am I getting so many debugging errors, and if there's a way to actually fix it so they stop happening, instead of just suppressing the popups.

Here's an example of the debugging message:
"Microsoft JScript runtime error: Object expected" and the script/etc is:
var result=""
try {
result = document.liveUpdate( 'nonCSS.tracking', 'slider_tracking_now', 'null', 'tracking' );
} catch( xx ) {
callCallback( 'AgDebugPrint', "EXCEPTION: " + xx );
result = "false";
}
pushresult( result );


I will also attach the text file.
 
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I was also having the same issue as mikethicke but unchecking the 'onHover Color Text' Option seems to have cleared it up for me.
 
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Another question in regards to FormToEmail. The resulting email is kind of hard to decipher easily. Can I alter the layout of the email I get from the form, to something more coherent? And if so, which file would I have to change, etc...? Or do I need the FormToEmail-Pro? And if so, how do I change it using the pro version?
 
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Thanks Guys, those two work-arounds worked for me too.

Lets hope we have a proper fix soon, as this template has excellent potential.

Mike
 
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TTG Client Response Gallery 2.'1 is now available.

This update adds a new checkbox to determine whether or not links open in a new window, as per Safariguy's request. Links open in a new window by default; this behavior is intended to prevent visitors from clicking their way out of the gallery and losing their form input. The checkbox is located under the Site Info pane, grouped with the menu options.

This update will hopefully fix the colorText bug first reported by mikethicke. Thanks to all of your for narrowing the issue down to the onHover Color Text item. If you were experiencing this issue previously, please re-enable the onHover Color Text item and let me know whether the problem persists (I haven't been able to reproduce the error on my Mac, so I'm relying on you guys to help me here).

I updated the readme file.
 
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Thanks for the update! I will try it out now. I noticed in your other galleries you have a "Disable Right Click" option. That would be a cool feature to have in Client Response Gallery too.

Also, any word on if the email Form the gallery sends me can have a custom layout?

Such as each checked image displaying this way in the form:

Image ID/File Name
Rating
Comments
Optional Field 1, etc...


Thanks again!
Nick
 
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Thanks for the update. Seems to work fine now.

Please could you add the ability to change the
Centering/Left/Right
Font and
Font Size
for the text in the pop up HighSlide image box - Looks pretty yucky currently!


And if you are really feeling ambitious, navigation breadcrumbs would be superb, eg
Home > Australia > Sydney Gallery
would each be configurable links to parent pages (except the last one, which is the current page)

Thanks!

Mike
 
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