Image Collections

Jango User guide - Components/Image Collections


	Image Collections allows you to add and organise all your groups of images to display to visitors on your site.

Using Image Collections

Image galleries, catalogues and travel brochures - you name it! If it requires an arrangement of images with text which is available to the public or private groups then the Image Collections component is for you.

Image Collections has three modes:

Images (add, edit and delete)
Styles (create the way a collection of images will be displayed)
The collections themselves (groups of images with a style applied)

This array gives you a vast number of possibilities for displaying different forms of media. Image Collections can be displayed on every page object in Jango, you can have various combinations and you can have as many per page, as you wish.

Image Collection Subcategories

On the default Image Collection page there are two additional sections that you may wish to look at. These are Images and Styles.

Creating a new collection

A collection is basically a category that can be used to hold a number of images. You can create as many different categories as you like by simply doing the following:

Click on the 'New' button.
Enter the name for the new collection.
Choose the style that you would like the Image Collection to be shown in.
Add any description you would like about the collection.
Choose the 'Save' button and the new collection will be created.

Editing a collection

This process is very similar to the above except instead of clicking on new, click on the name of the collection you wish to edit.

Adding images to a collection

When editing an image collection it is also possible to link through to the area for adding a new image. This essentially does the same thing as adding a new image from within the Image Collections -Images subsection.

Click on the Add Image icon at the top left of the screen
When the new page loads, the current collection you've been added should be pre-populated in the collections select box.
Give the image a title and description.
Now click on the browse button to locate the file you wish to upload. Click on save to add the image. This will then return you to the edit collection page.

After adding images to a collection, when you edit that collection, the edit form page also shows the images included in this collection at the bottom of the page. You can use the edit collection page therefore to do a quick editing/deleting of images within this collection.