You can manage your events here. Besides creating a new event, you can set an event offline/online, upload files, open the file list and open the edit view. In addition, there are several more buttons in the toolbar:
- Options
- Sync Database
- Clear Cache
For details, check the overview section.
The view lets you edit the details of an event. An event is always based on some kind of file structure. Because of this, you’ll have to deal with the term "folder".
Use the Save as Copy button to create a copy of the current event.
Make sure you specify a different image source. A source cannot be used twice.
Images are not involved in the copy process.
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Image Source
Specify which image source you want to use for this Event.
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Local Images / S3 Storage
For S3 Storage, first choose the S3 account which holds the images of this event. Then specify the folder name. Don’t use special characters or slashes. A good example is '2022-05-20_birthday'. You don’t need to care about the folder structure, so no parent directories are needed here. Again: no slashes are allowed. Create the Event, then you can upload images.
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Flickr Photo Set
If you want to show a Flickr Photoset you can enter the ID of this PhotoSet here. You can search for that ID manually or use the Album button after selecting a Flickr account. If there is no Flickr account, please create one in Event Gallery. This gives you easy access on the one hand and access to private Flickr images on the other.
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Google Photos - Shared Page
Paste the sharing link of a Google Photos album here. Event Gallery reads the images from that page, so no API project and no credentials are needed. See Google Photos - Shared Page for the details and the limitations.
Selecting an album through the Google Photos Library API is no longer possible. Google deprecated that API, so the folder type was removed in Event Gallery 6.0.0. To copy images out of Google Photos onto your webspace, use the Google Photos Picker while uploading instead.
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User Groups
Defines a set of user groups. If a user wants to see an event, they need to be part of one of the defined user groups. Otherwise, they’ll get a login page or an access-denied screen.
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Password
Set a password for each folder if you want to protect it somehow. If a user tries to access such a folder, they need to enter a password. If you want to send out links to a password-protected folder, you can add this password directly to the link, like
index.php?option=com_eventgallery&view=event&folder=wedding&password=secret. Such a link does not open the gallery by itself. It sends the visitor to the password page with the password already filled in, so all they have to do is submit the form.That extra step is on purpose. A link is followed by anything that sees it - a crawler, a link preview in a chat app, a virus scanner in a mail client - and none of that should unlock a gallery or be able to try passwords. Only the submitted form does, and that request passes the captcha and the attempt limit.
The password page uses the captcha you configured in Joomla, so leave the captcha empty and there is none.
A visitor may get ten passwords wrong per hour, counted per session and per IP address. After that even the right password is refused until an hour has passed. The same budget covers the password page of an Event and the Event Access landing page, so guessing does not get cheaper by switching between them.
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Password Hint
Provide a hint for the user to guess or get the password. Use this to let your visitors guess the password without having to know it.
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Tags
A comma separated list of tags you want the event to have.
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Date
This date is shown in the front end for this event.
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Title
This title is shown in the front end as the event’s name.
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Published
Is this event visible in the front end?
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Start Publishing
Defines when this Event would become visible in the front end. Still, you need to publish it.
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End Publishing
Sets the time at which this Event should disappear in the front end. Still, you need to publish the Event.
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Cartable
Defines if users can add images from this folder to the cart. Useful if you want to display image where it makes no sense for getting requests for.
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Image Set
If you want to sell images from this event you need to select the image set you want to use.
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Watermark
Sometimes you want to brand your images. If you defined at least one watermark, you can select it here. All images of this event will be marked using this watermark configuration. If a published default watermark exists, it is used for the images of this event.
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Text
You can add additional text to an event. This text is usually shown above the thumbnails in the front end.
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Sorting
While this tab is visible for all types of events, it affects local events only. Use it to define how you want to sort the images of this event. If you chose the global sorting values you can control your file ordering using the component’s options.
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Others
Use this tab to control more settings for this event like the options for social sharing.
