Image Gallery Portlet

Like the Document Library, the Image Gallery provides a centralized repository for images used throughout the Sun GlassFish Web Space ServerPortal. It assigns a unique URL to each image.

To add an Image to the Image Gallery

1. Log in to Web Space Server.

2. Navigate to Control Panel -> Content -> Image Gallery from the Welcome menu.

3. Click the Add Folder button.

4. Type a name and description and click Save.

   The folder is added to the portlet.

5. Click the folder name.

   You can add a subfolder or an image within the folder. In our example we are adding an image for the folder we have already created.

6. Click the Add Image button.

7. Browse and upload a document.

   You can upload images using the classic uploader or the multiple uploader. The multiple uploader enables you to upload multiple images at a time whereas the classic uploader allows only one image at a time. The default maximum image size is 3000 Kbytes. To change the upload size limit, modify the ig.image.max.size property in the portal-ext.properties file.

8. Type a title and description for the image.

To create Reference to an Image in the Image Gallery

1. Log in to Web Space Server.

2. Navigate to Control Panel -> Content -> Image Gallery from the Welcome menu.

3. Navigate to a folder with images.

4. Select an image.

5. Click Edit, and copy the URL.

   You can use the URL as a reference to the image.

6. Paste the URL in the URL field of a browser to access the image.

To View an Image Slide Show

1. Log in to Web Space Server.

2. Navigate to Control Panel -> Content -> Image Gallery from the Welcome menu.

3. Click a folder containing images.

4. Click the View Slide Show button to display a slide show of the images contained in the folder.

   A new window appears. In the new window, images are displayed in a sequence, one after the other. The slide show window has buttons that enable you to play and pause the slide show, and to view next and previous image for an image. You can set a time interval for displaying images, by using the Speed list. You can set a time interval between 1 to 10 seconds, with 3 seconds being the default time interval for the slide show.