Document Libraries are a Sueetie Premium feature adding document and bibliographic functions to Gallery Server Pro media galleries
Media Gallery as Document Management System
Gallery Server Pro powers Sueetie Media Galleries and it's a fantastic application. For navigation Gallery Server Pro displays albums and media objects as thumbnail images. To use the Media Gallery more like a document management system, Sueetie Premium adds the ability for media galleries to serve as document libraries, with full bibliographic properties configurable by gallery.
Let's look at the default Gallery Server Pro thumbnail format followed by the new Sueetie Document View.
Folders (or "albums" in GSP) presented as thumbnails are great when you want to display a lot of albums in a smaller amount of space, but not so great if you're viewing the items as folders and want more detail about what's inside. To make that happen and use the Media Gallery more like a Document Management System, here is the new Sueetie Media Document View!
Displaying Media Object Details
The Sueetie Media Document View treats each media object as a bibliographic item capable of containing descriptors like publisher, series, publication date, multiple authors, and more. Here aresome of the properties added to the Sueetie Media Object.
I should add in regards to using the Media Gallery like a Document Management System, searching is an important function. Currently the Media Object Titles and Descriptions are searchable with Sueetie's global Lucene-based search engine. Since these bibliographic properties are part of the Sueetie Framework's SueetieMediaObject they can be added to the search engine with little effort.
Here's a screenshot of the new detailed display format of the
Sueetie Lollipop Blocked Theme folder. Instead of the default thumbnail format where both the screenshot is indiscernible and the title is truncated, a full screenshot title is displayed along with html-enabled item description.
Editing Document View Content Details
Two new menu items were added to the Gallery Server Pro Action Menu, Edit Sueetie Album Details and Edit Sueetie Media Object Details.
Sueetie Album and Media Object details are edited inline, working the same way as Gallery Server Pro's "Edit Captions" function. Here's what that looks like.
There are no plans at the moment to add support for managing all bibliographic data (series, conference, publisher, etc) for Sueetie 1.4, as their use is more a custom requirement. If or when bibliographic data editing is available, it will most likely be in the form of an edit form in Sueetie Administration and not in Gallery Server Pro.
Configuring Sueetie Media Gallery Document View
Three new media settings have been added to the Sueetie.config file (located in /util/config) to configure Media Gallery Document View. The first is the
DisplayListFormat boolean property. If true, the Document View is enabled, otherwise the default thumbnail view is used. The ThumbnailWidth and ThumbnailHeight properties are needed to set the dimensions of the non-image thumbnails for your Document View display.
A new .ASCX control has been added to Gallery Server Pro, the SueetieListView.ascx control. This can be modified to display content and content details however you like.
The logic of displaying the Document View SueetieListView.ascx control is that the Gallery Server Pro Album Display page (/gs/pages/album.ascx) checks the Sueetie Framework's SueetieConfiguration.Media.DisplayListFormat property on PageLoad(), and if true loads SueetieListView.ascx. Otherwise the default ThumbnailView.ascx control loads.
Modifying Media Object Display at the Folder Level
With Atomo you can extend the logic of Sueetie Document View by specifying the display of Media Content by Folder Type, that is, load a different .ASCX control based on whether the Media Album is a Sueetie Video Album type, Audio Album type, Document Album type, and so on. Here's how you would do that using the SueetieContentType enumerator with the SueetieMediaAlbum.
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