376

(3 replies, posted in Showkase Support)

(1) You can change the configuration of the CKEditor toolbar in the 'showkase/admin/settings/ckeditorconfig.js' file.
If you'd like to use the 'Full' toolbar, change line 32 from:

config.toolbar = 'Showkase';

... to:

config.toolbar = 'Full';

Otherwise, you can configure a custom toolbar by changing one of the templates in the file ('Showkase', 'Basic', 'Full') and making sure that line 32 selects the template you wish to use.
Showkase incorporates CKEditor v4.5.7 so please refer to the documentation here: http://docs.ckeditor.com/#!/guide/dev_toolbar
Also, please note that the line number above refers to the current version of  Showkase (v1.6.1).

(2) The Showkase Library was designed to accept images only (files with extensions jpg, jpeg, gif and png).
All Library and upload functionality is based around images. When selecting the 'Library -> Images' tab or clicking a 'Browse Library' button, only images are displayed. It would probably take quite a lot of modification to several source files to allow other files types to be accepted by the upload module and for functionality to not be broken anywhere in the interface. Care would need to be taken to filter out non images for Library selections (such as the theme 'Logo') as the file may end up as a 'src' attribute in an <img> tag.
If you need to incorporate a pdf file in your site, the best thing to do would be to upload it to your web server manually and add your HTML code as necessary in the editor (as you are currently doing).

I hope this helps to clarify things for you.

377

(5 replies, posted in Showkase Support)

You're welcome!

378

(5 replies, posted in Showkase Support)

The css worked great.

That's great! Thank you for letting me know.

... any link I put in the body copy has a dotted underline.

If you want to remove the dotted line below links in the Maribo theme, add the following CSS to your 'showkase/_themes/maribo/css/custom.css' file:

a {
    border-bottom-style: none !important;
}

379

(5 replies, posted in Showkase Support)

I notice on the Maribo demo site, the Maribo Photo header font is larger than what the default is when using the actual theme.

Font sizes may be tweaked between versions (perhaps for layout reasons) but I have just created a sample Showkase site using the current version of Showkase-Pro (v1.6.1) and the Maribo theme and the 'Site heading' and 'Site subhead' are the same size in my test site as they are in the v1.5.1 demo site here.
If you are using a version of Showkase prior to v1.5.1, then perhaps upgrading to the current version will solve your problem without any further action.
Full instructions for upgrading Showkase can be found here.

If you still want to increase the 'Site header' font size but only when Showkase is in Large Screen Mode (when the browser window is wider than 768px), then you can use a media query. Please see this Mozilla Developer Network support page for more information on using media queries: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/doc … ia_queries

Try adding the following CSS (adjusting the 'font-size' as necessary) to your site's 'showkase/_themes/maribo/css/custom.css' file:

@media only screen and (min-width: 768px) {
    .hgroup h1 {
        font-size: 60px;
    }
}

I hope this helps.

380

(1 replies, posted in Showkase Support)

— recently, even after changing their page titles both on the page list and in the page details, the folder name (URL) will not change.

Just to clarify, in the current version of Showkase (v1.6.1), the folder name is taken from the page name on the 'Pages' tab (shown in the tree) rather than the 'Page title' in the page settings.

I have just double-checked this functionality in a Showkase-Pro v1.6.1 site of my own and everything seems to work as expected. I am unable to replicate the problem you reported.

I do not know why your folder names are not changing to reflect your page names but here are a few things to check and try.

(1) You say the problem seems to have started recently. If you have not made any changes yourself (other than to your Showkase pages), then perhaps your web host has changed something on your server or web hosting account that is somehow contributing to your problem.
Please try installing and running the Showkase Server Compatibility Test to check that your server has all the features Showkase needs. If any of the tests fail, there are troubleshooting tips on the test's support page (link above).
Even if you ran the test before installing Showkase, please try again in case your web host has made any changes recently.

(2) Try going to 'System -> Repairs' and clicking the 'Repair' button to rebuild the page records. This might help.

(3) The problem could possibly be related to permissions. Try going to 'System -> Files' and click the 'make writeable' next to the folders in question.

(4) I notice that the pages you referred to in your post above are not represented in the navigation menu. Are they hidden or is this part of the problem? Try moving the pages in the tree on the 'Pages' tab to a different location (just temporarily), click 'Save' and 'Publish' and then move them back to where you want them to be (and, again, click 'Save' and 'Publish').

(5) After changing a page name (on the 'Pages' tab) is there a new folder with the new name as well as the old folder?

(6) Does the functionality of Showkase still seem to work OK (even though the folder name is not changing on your server)? If you make any changes to one of the Showkase pages whose folder names do not change, are the changes applied successfully?

Maybe the suggestions in #1, #2, #3 and #4 above will help.
Otherwise, the additional information from #5 and #6 might at least point us in the right direction.

381

(1 replies, posted in Showkase Support)

Yes. Showkase should run absolutely fine on PHP 7.
I currently run test Showkase sites on PHP 7.0.6 without issue.
However, if you find any oddities that you think might be related to PHP 7, please let us know.
Thank you.

382

(1 replies, posted in Showkase Support)

It looks like your "October 8" gallery is a standalone Juicebox gallery (and not yet a Showkase page).

Have you imported the gallery into your Showkase site yet? If not:
(1) Go to 'Site -> Import'
(2) Enter '/' as your import path (to denote your root directory where your gallery folder, "october_8", is)
(3) Click 'Scan'
(4) Select the gallery
(5) Click 'Import'

Once the gallery has been imported into your Showkase site, you can drag and drop the gallery page onto your gallery index page on the 'Pages' tab (to have the gallery listed on the index page).

You're welcome.

If you want to try adding an ArtStation icon to the custom font that Showkase uses for the social media icons, then the following might be helpful.

If you do a Google image search for "artstation svg", you should be able to find a suitable ArtStation logo in svg format which you can import directly into the IcoMoon app as a new character.

You could then add it to the custom font that Showkase uses (using the IcoMoon app) and seamlessly integrate it into your social media sharing icons in your site's footer.

(1) Open the IcoMoon app in your browser.
(2) Import the 'showkase/_themes/base/fonts/icomoon.svg' file into the IcoMoon app.
(3) Find a suitable ArtStation logo in svg format on the internet.
(4) Import this svg file into the IcoMoon app.
(5) Tweak the ArtStation logo if necessary using the IcoMoon editor (for example to change its scale).
(6) Select all icons (all icons from the original font and the new ArtStation logo).
(7) Click 'Generate Font' at the foot of the page.
(8) Swap the code for the ArtStation logo with the code for an icon that you do not use, e.g. Vimeo. (Otherwise, you'd need to edit Showkase source files to tell Showkase what the new code is for the ArtStation logo.)
(9) Save the font as a zip file. (It'll be named 'icomoon.zip' by default.)
(10) Replace the files in your 'showkase/_themes/base/fonts/' folder with the files from the 'icomoon/fonts/' folder (from the extracted font zip file).

Now you can use the Vimeo social sharing functionality as ArtStation instead.

The following links might help with using the IcoMoon editor.
IcoMoon Docs: https://icomoon.io/docs.html
Juicebox 'Using Custom Icons' (not 100% relevant but might be helpful): https://www.juicebox.net/support/theming/#icons

If you want to create or edit an svg logo, you could use Inkscape or SVG-Edit or Adobe Illustrator.

Of course, you could still just add your own ArtStation link in the {block "footer"} ... {/block} section.

1. Is there a way to change what picture shows up as the main image for each sub gallery on the main gallery page?? Looks like it just defaults to the first image of the subgallery, but is there a way to set it to a specific image permanently??

Yes. Edit your gallery page, go to the 'Images' tab and select the image you want to use for the thumbnail on the gallery index page in the 'Index' column.

2. Is there a way to set my site header text to always go back to the main index.php page no matter what sub page it is on?? Currently it seems to work that it just refreshes whatever page is currently being viewed, but I'd like that main header text to always default back to the main page.

Yes. Go to 'Site -> Site Settings' and enter the URL you'd like to use for your site header in the 'Site -> Site header link' input field.

3. I really love the page footer links for social media that y'all have pre-setup, but as an artist I'm going to be getting an artstation page set up as more and more in my field are beginning to have these pages, and showkase currently does not have one of these footer options pre made for that. How can I go about adding a similar artstation logo and link along with the other page footer URLs I currently have active?? Is this possible??

The sharing icons that Showkase uses are characters in a custom font (created by the IcoMoon app).
If the IcoMoon library had an ArtStation logo, you could maybe have added it to the font that Showkase uses, and change the logo for a sharing option that you do not currently use.
However, there does not appear to be an ArtStation logo within the IcoMoon library so you might have to just manually add an image link to your page's footer.
You can add custom HTML code to your footer by opening your 'showkase/_themes/base/pagetypes/basetheme.tpl' file in a plain text editor and modifying the {block "footer"} ... {/block} section at the end of the file.

Great stuff!
Thanks for the update.

Thank you for running the Server Compatibility Test.

Php version    4.4.9    ✘

The fact that your server has PHP v4.4.9 is almost certainly the cause of the problem. Showkase requires PHP v5.2.0 as a minimum (please see the System Requirements).
It is highly unlikely that you would have been able to setup or run Showkase at all on PHP v4.4.9 so I suspect that the PHP version that is running on your server has recently been downgraded.
You might be able to change the PHP version yourself in your web hosting account's online Control Panel.
Otherwise, please contact your web host and ask them if they can switch you over to PHP v5.2.0 (or later).
PHP v5.2.0 was released on 2 November 2006 so Showkase does not require a super-recent version of PHP but it does require v5.2.0 or later for certain functionality that was released in this version.

You're welcome!
Please let me know how you get on and if you need any further assistance.
Thank you.

388

(5 replies, posted in Showkase Support)

You're welcome!

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '{' in /homepages/26/d233035426/htdocs/index.php on line 12

This sounds like your 'index.php' file may somehow have become corrupt (maybe through manual editing or your web host unsuccessfully reinstating your site from a backup).

And then when I try to go to the proper site for the showkase admin pages editor for my site, nothing loads...

However, this sounds like there is more to the problem.
Even if the 'index.php' file is missing, you should still be able to access the admin section of your site.
(The 'index.php' file is required to display the Showkase home page.)

Try extracting your 'showkase-pro-1.6.1.zip' file (you can download a fresh copy using the link from your purchase email if you need to) and find the 'index.php' file in the root 'showkase' directory.
Use this file to replace the 'index.php' file in on your web server (in your 'htdocs' directory).
If you are in any doubt that your existing 'index.php' file is being overwritten, try deleting it first before uploading the new version in its place.

This may help but as you are not able to access the admin section of your site, I suspect the problem may lie somewhere else.

Try installing and running the Showkase Server Compatibility Test.
Even if you ran the test before installing Showkase, please try again in case your web host has made any changes recently which are affecting Showkase functionality.
If any of the tests fail, it might give us a clue as to the nature of the problem. Also, there are troubleshooting tips in the link above.

Also, please contact your web host to see if they have experienced any problems or have made any changes recently which might somehow be contributing to your problem.
It sounds like there's a chance that there is a problem with PHP on your hosting account. Maybe your web host has changed the PHP version or a PHP setting which is adversely affecting your website.

I hope this points you in the right direction.

390

(5 replies, posted in Showkase Support)

First of all, I should mention that you can quickly and easily change a gallery type (for example from SimpleViewer to Juicebox) within the Showkase interface. Edit the gallery page, go to the 'Advanced' tab and choose the gallery type your like to change the gallery to.
Just be aware that not all SimpleViewer configuration options have direct Juicebox equivalents (like the Watermark Options).

With regard to exporting a gallery from Showkase for use in JuiceboxBuilder-Pro, each page in a Showkase site is given its own folder in the root Showkase directory (named after its page name on the 'Pages' tab).
You should be able to download a gallery page folder from the Showkase root drectory to your computer (via FTP) and open the folder as a gallery in JuiceboxBuilder-Pro (via the 'Open Gallery' button on the 'Start' tab), where you can add a watermark (on the 'Images' tab) before uploading the folder to your server and importing it back into Showkase.

391

(5 replies, posted in Showkase Support)

Your galleries are SimpleViewer-Pro galleries and what you are describing is the Mobile Player version of SimpleViewer galleries.

SimpleViewer-Pro is predominantly a Flash image viewer with an HTML 5 fallback (known as the Mobile Player) for mobile devices and browsers which do not have Adobe Flash Player installed and enabled.

It sounds like the Mac browsers you are referring to do not have Adobe Flash Player installed and enabled and SimpleViewer is using the Mobile Player to display the galleries.

Please see the note regarding Universal Playback here.
Universal Playback automatically ensures that all users are able to see your gallery images, regardless of whether or not they have Flash-enabled devices or browsers.
However, please note that the Mobile Player supports fewer configuration options than the Flash version of the gallery. Here is a list of options supported by the Mobile Player. (The Mobile Player does not support Watermark Options or imageClickMode.)

Please also see these FAQs:
When I view my gallery I see a grid of thumbnails, not the layout I specified. Why?
The mobile player layout does not match the Flash player layout. Why not?

As you have Showkase-Pro, you could use Juicebox-Pro instead of SimpleViewer-Pro for your galleries.
Juicebox-Pro is a fully-featured HTML 5 image viewer that does not require Adobe Flash at all.
More information on the differences between SimpleViewer and Juicebox can be found in this SimpleViewer blog entry.

Juicebox-Pro supports imageClickMode (like SimpleViewer-Pro) but does not support dynamic watermarking.
However, you could create your Juicebox-Pro galleries with JuiceboxBuilder-Pro (the desktop application) which can watermark your images when they are resized for your galleries. Please see here for details.
You can then upload the gallery folders to your web server and import them into your Showkase site using Showkase's 'Site -> Import' functionality.
Once a gallery has been imported, it becomes a genuine Showkase page (just as if the gallery had been created in Showkase itself) and can be edited from within the Showkase interface if necessary.

(1) Upload the complete gallery folder to your web server using an FTP program. (I recommend uploading it to a location outside your Showkase directory.)
(2) Go to 'Site -> Import' in your Showkase site.
(3) For the 'Import path', enter the path to the directory containing the gallery folder (not the gallery folder itself).
(4) Click 'Scan' and choose the gallery folder (or folders - you can import several galleries at once if they are all in the same parent directory).
(5) Click 'Import' and 'Publish'.

The newly imported gallery page will have its own entry on Showkase's 'Pages' tab.

... and may change my galleries to all look like that (if I knew how)...

In SimpleViewer-Pro, you can force the Mobile Player to always be used (to display the grid of thumbnails), regardless of whether Flash Player is available or not, by deselecting the 'Use Flash' checkbox in the 'Standard Viewer Options' section.
In Juicebox-Pro, you can force Small Screen Mode (see here for more details) to always be used by setting 'Screen Mode' to SMALL in the 'General (Pro)' section.
Small Screen Mode is similar to the Mobile Player in SimpleViewer in that it displays thumbnails and images on separate pages (not together). (However, Small Screen Mode in Juicebox-Pro supports far more configuration options than the Mobile Player within SimpleViewer-Pro.)

392

(3 replies, posted in Showkase Support)

GalleryTitlePosition does not change what I want.

It certainly sounds like you might be referring to the Showkase 'Page Content -> Page title'.
If the title you are referring to is the text that you have entered into the 'Page Content -> Page title' input, then please try the second suggestion from my post above. (It is the only way to have the body content above the gallery in Kosel.)

I tried to share a URL with an image sample but got this message, "Too many links in message. Allowed 0 links. Reduce number of links and post it again."

Now that you've posted a couple of posts, you should hopefully be able to post links. (Otherwise, you can disguise the links by inserting spaces between slashes or leaving out the http:// part.)

Is there a way I can post an image to this form?

Unfortunately, the forum is not set up to accept images but you can use an image or file sharing service to host the image and then post a link to it (disguising the link if necessary).

393

(3 replies, posted in Showkase Support)

The Gallery Title in a Juicebox-Pro gallery is positioned using the galleryTitlePosition configuration option (in the 'General' section).
Possible values for galleryTitlePosition are OVERLAY, TOP, ABOVE_THUMBS and NONE.

The Gallery Title can also be aligned horizontally (LEFT, CENTER or RIGHT) via the galleryTitleHAlign option.

Short descriptions of these options can be found in the General section of the Juicebox-Pro Config Options page.

However, it sounds like you might be referring to the Showkase 'Page Content -> Page title' rather than the Juicebox Gallery Title.
If you want to move the page content from below the gallery to above the gallery, then it is not possible with the available interface options and you'll need to edit one of the Showkase source files.
Open the 'showkase/_themes/base/pagetypes/juicebox.tpl' in a plain text editor.
Cut lines 18-23 inclusive:

      <section class="page-body">
        <h2 class="page-title">{$ss_pageTitle}</h2>
        <div class="body-content {$pageBodyLayout}">
          {$ss_pageBody}
        </div>
      </section>

... and paste them to immediately below line 2:

{block "content"}

Please note that the line numbers refer to the current version of Showkase (v1.6.1).

Be sure to re-publish your site after making this change.

394

(3 replies, posted in Showkase Support)

1. Juicebox-Pro 1.5.0   gallery Thumbnails image  look like blur image

It looks like the thumbnail images on your server are 85px x 85px and your gallery's configuration file does not entries for thumbWidth and thumbHeight so the thumbnails should be displayed at 85px x 85px (the default values) so everything should be OK.

However, your screenshot ('image1.png') shows the thumbnail images being displayed at a different size (maybe something like 100px x 85px). It looks like your mobile browser might be using an older version of your gallery's configuration file (one with a custom entry for thumbWidth).

I have viewed your gallery on my own mobile iOS device and your thumbnail are displayed at the correct dimensions (85px x 85px) so it looks like the problem may be your browser's cache.

Try completely clearing your mobile browser's cache before reloading your gallery's web page.
This should hopefully solve your problem.

2. i want
    gallery index page -> full screen image

Set showSplashPage="NEVER" (in the 'Splash Screen (Pro)' section) to disable the Splash Page.
You may also like to set showSmallThumbsOnLoad="FALSE" (in the 'Thumbnails (Pro)' section) to initially skip the thumbnail page in Small Screen Mode and go straight to the first image in the gallery when the gallery is loaded.
Alternatively, you could set screenMode="LARGE" to force the gallery to be displayed in Large Screen Mode in all browsers and on all devices. (Large Screen Mode does not use the Splash Page by default.)
For more information about Screen Modes and the Splash Page, please see here.

3 fixed forwarding -> resolve thx

That's great. Thank you for letting me know.

395

(3 replies, posted in Showkase Support)

1. Juicebox-Pro 1.5.0   gallery Thumbnails image  look like blur image

It sounds like your thumbnail images may not be at the dimensions specified by the thumbWidth and thumbHeight configuration options.
Try editing your gallery page, going to the 'Advanced' tab and clicking the 'Rebuild' link.
This should rebuild your thumbnail images at the correct size.
If this does not help, then please post the URL to your gallery page so that I can see the problem for myself.

2. fixed forwarding

I would not recommend loading a Showkase site into a frame (as the code you posted seems to do).
If you want www.clearpix.co.kr to redirect to your main Showkase page, try a meta refresh like the following:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="ko">
    <head>      
        <title>Redirect</title>      
        <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;URL='http://maybi.iptime.org/show_clearpix/'" />    
    </head>    
    <body> 
    </body>  
</html>

Otherwise, you should be able to set up a redirect in your web hosting account's online control panel.

396

(1 replies, posted in Showkase Support)

(resolve)

It sounds like you might have already resolved your problem.
If you still have a problem, please let me know in detail what it is and I'll try to help out.

I'm not sure if you are trying to align images within a gallery or a gallery within a page.
If you are trying to horizontally align images within the gallery, then imageHAlign is the config option to use.
If you are trying to horizontally align a gallery within a page, then please post a link to the page in question so that I can take a look at the problem for myself. (A Showkase page should position the gallery appropriately depending on the theme being used and, ordinarily, should not need to be re-aligned.)

If you have already resolved your problem then you don't need to post back.
Thanks.

397

(3 replies, posted in Showkase Support)

Thank you for the link to your web page and the screenshots.

It looks like the problem might be the one noted in the FAQ from my post above.
The gallery images do not have the same aspect ratio as the gallery itself in narrow browser windows which results in some space above and below the images.

Try reducing the height of your Juicebox gallery by editing the gallery page, going to the 'Override Site Options' section and entering a negative value for either 'External fit px' or 'Internal fit px'.

You might need to experiment with values but, as a starting point, try setting 'Internal fit px' to -105 (the same as in the Maribo demo gallery). This should hopefully help.

Also, I note that your gallery sets topAreaHeight to -100. Try setting it to 0 instead. (Your gallery does not have any elements positioned TOP so this might not make a difference but topAreaHeight expects only a positive integer if it is to be used.)

398

(3 replies, posted in Showkase Support)

Please post the URL to the web page that you are referring to so that I can see the problem for myself.
I do not know if the image you are referring to is a part of a gallery (Juicebox, ListViewer, SimpleViewer) or an image included from the Showkase Library (or something else).
Also, without seeing the page, I do not know whether the margin is connected to the "sub text" or the "pic" from your post above (although I suspect it is likely related to the image).
Please let me know what device and browser you are using and, if possible, provide a screenshot so that I can see what you are seeing. Thank you.

Try viewing this Maribo demo gallery on your mobile device to see how the margin above the gallery images compares with your own site.

Depending on the nature of the problem, you might be able to tweak the margin using custom CSS.
Please see the Adding Custom Styles support section for details.
Your browser's developer tools should help you determine which classes or ids you might need to apply custom CSS rules to.
Please see this forum post for more information regarding using developer tools.

If the image is part of a Juicebox gallery, then this FAQ might help.
My Juicebox gallery shows too much space above or below the main image, how do I fix this?

You can reduce the height of a Juicebox gallery in Showkase by editing the gallery page, going to the 'Override Site Options' section and entering a negative value (such as '-200') for the 'External fit px' entry.
(This will probably help only for a Juicebox gallery where the Splash Page is not being used.)

399

(3 replies, posted in Showkase Support)

Thanks for the update.
I hope that's solved the problem for you.

400

(3 replies, posted in Showkase Support)

I'm not sure why this might be happening. I've not seen it happen before and, as far as I can remember, no one else has reported such an issue.

... about 50 or so new 'Gallery" folders were created...

... 93 folders called "Gallery" had been made.

It sounds like, whatever the problem is, it doubles the number of duplicate folders on each iteration.

How are the duplicate folders named? This might give us a clue as to how they are being created.
For example, if you have a gallery page named 'gallery', are the duplicated folders on your server named 'gallery-2', 'gallery-3', etc. or do they use a different format such as 'gallery (2)', 'gallery (3)', etc.?

Take a look at your showkase/_data/pagesdata.txt file in a plain text editor. I expect you might find all the duplicate folders listed in here.
If so, and your Showkase site is self-contained in its own folder (with no non-Showkase content in the Showkase root directory), then the following might work.

(1) If you are not already using the latest version of Showkase (v1.6.1), please upgrade following the Upgrading Showkase instructions.

(2) Manually delete any duplicate folders on your server that you know are not part of your actual Showkase site.

(3) Run 'System -> Repairs -> Repair' to rebuild the page records.

If this does not work, here are a few other things to try.

Try installing a fresh Showkase site into a new subdirectory on your server to see if the same thing happens with this new site. As long as you install the new site into a folder of its own, it should not interfere with your existing site and it will be self contained (so it can easily be deleted after testing if necessary).

If duplicate folders are created within the new site, then this would suggest that the problem is somehow related to your web server or its settings (although I would really need access to both your server and existing Showkase site in order to try to determine the cause of the problem).

If the new site seems to function OK without creating duplicate folders, then you could perhaps use this site as your main site and import the pages from your original site (via Showkase's 'Site -> Import' functionality) to avoid the need to recreate them from scratch.
You could then move the new site into the location of the original site (deleting the original site first) by following the Changing Your Installation Directory instructions.

Hopefully the suggestions above will help.

Important note:
Please take a full backup of your existing site before trying any of the above, just in case anything goes wrong and you need to reinstate your original files at a later date.