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Re: Searchable video gallery - any ideas?
A follow up question for anyone who's interested. Search integration seems like an overly complex request at this time. I'm open to any suggestions on good video gallery ideas- both gallery plugins and what page type(s) in Lithium might be the most accommodating to this layout/content.Searchable video gallery - any ideas?
I've got a collection of videos that I'd like to tile on across a layout, while making each one individually searchable. I could load them into a custom component to display, but I can't think of a way to pass them into the native search results. My best idea is to maybe place them as individual articles on a custom category layout so they can be found in search, then limit the article content to just some descriptive text and the video and have that display as a lightbox, but that seems a little janky to me. The other alternative I've imagined is to use the native video uploading/gallery functionality to create a gallery with an official or bot account, then link directly to that gallery in the site navigation. I haven't tested anything w/ video galleries yet, so I have no idea if those will appear in search if they're publicly listed. If so, that might be the best option, even if the module needs to be hacked into something custom for our community. Has anyone tried out anything along those lines?restrictions on nestable pages?
I've been working on some new pages and I was attempting to create a consistent header across all of them. However, I noticed a few things: 1) the default Header page has an override that prevents it from being nestable (it will revert false -> true changes in XML view on save, toggle is hidden in Canvas view), which makes it impossible to make a single Header and nest it in each page. The result is constantly having to add all of the header modules to each new page you create, which is highly inefficient. 2) As a workaround, I created a new Page (e.g. Header2) and a new Layout (Header2), assuming that I could make an exact copy of the current header objects with custom content, which would hopefully not be subject to the constraints of #1 above. I can see the 'nestable' toggle now, but the same thing is happening on save- it reverts to 'false'. It's a bit tedious and likely to cause errors if this replication must occur manually on every page we maintain. I've also noticed that the footer page can be nested, which thoroughly perplexes me, as it's common for a site to have consistently fixed header/footer working in tandem. Is there something I'm missing? I've seen new system pages without the frontend header content, but the page layout has the header sections (without the actual custom modules in the layout, though), so maybe they're added by default somehow?
