This section describes how image galleries are set up and explains how to manage website images.

About Image Galleries

Fakoli uses image galleries to organize all images used on a site. Access to the image galleries can be controlled by user role, with different permission rules applied to different galleries, and access to entire galleries can be turned on and off. 

There are two ways to view images:

• Thumbnails: view by thumbnail images
  
• Detailed List: view by image title, image file name, and upload date
  

To create and manage image galleries in the Admin section, navigate to Site Content > Images.

Creating an Image Gallery 

On the Image Galleries home page, you will see a list of all your galleries or a statement that you have not created any galleries.

Click the Create an Image Gallery button.

On the Definitions Tab, provide the requested information.

Field Name	Use
Gallery Name	Required, provide a descriptive name to help you distinguish the gallery from others.
Identifier	Required, must be unique. Recommend using lowercase letters, no spaces. The identifier makes up the last part of the gallery's URL (e.g. www.fakoli.org/identifier)
Description	Optional. For your internal reference/management
Keywords	Optional.
Published	Required. If un-checked, the images in this gallery may not be visible to website users.

When you are ready, click the Add Image Gallery button.

On the Permissions Tab, you can set the access permissions to the gallery.

You can then proceed with adding images to the new image gallery, by clicking on the Images Tab. You can select the view you prefer - thumbnail or detailed list.

Adding an image

From the Image Galleries Home Page, select the image gallery for the image you want to upload.

Click the 2^nd tab, titled Images.

At the bottom of the screen, click the Add a new Image button.

Only three fields [Title, Image File, and Published] are required. The other fields may be left blank if necessary.

Field Name	Use
Title	Description of the image
Image File	The path to the image file you are planning to upload
Alt Tag	Alternative description to the image. Used for low vision screen readers
Date Taken	The date the image was created
Credits	Image credits, if applicable
Caption	An optional caption
Keywords	Keywords to describe the images contents
Published	Required. If un-checked, this image may not be visible to website users.
Include In Slideshow	Deprecated from earlier version of image gallery, please disregard.
Sort Order	Optional, used to indicate the order in which you want images to appear in a customized image gallery
Image Type	Optional

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