How to use uploaded images from an image gallery in an article?

Question

Maybe I am not searching for the correct terms, but I am trying to use an image gallery and be able to reference the images in that gallery from an article. I want to be able to upload the images one time, but then have specific images to be shown in the article, either as a "sub-gallery" or just inline with the text, depending on the context of the article.

Is it just as simple as creating an image tag and setting the source to the relative address inside the drupal site? Or is there a better way to accomplish what I am trying to do?

Answer 1

The module Entity reference can do the job.

Entity reference provides a field type that can reference arbitrary entities

...ie your gallery files!

With this module you can add an "Entity Reference Field" related to your gallery files to the Article Content Type.

Then, for each Article, you can add 1 or more images among those already loaded.

Answer 2

Creating galleries is a common request, which can be solved in various ways. Talking Drupal #083 is a great podcast about creating a Gallery, and includes a lot of recommended modules for it. Just to mention a few of them (mentioned on the linked page):

• Gallery formatter - https://www.drupal.org/project/galleryformatter
• Views Slideshow - https://www.drupal.org/project/views_slideshow
• Flexslider - https://www.drupal.org/project/flexslider
• Node Gallery - https://www.drupal.org/project/node_gallery
• Multiupload Filefield Widget - https://www.drupal.org/project/multiupload_filefield_widget
• Multiupload Imagefield Widget - https://www.drupal.org/project/multiupload_imagefield_widget
• Field Focus - www.drupal.org/project/imagefield_focus
• pl upload - https://www.drupal.org/project/plupload

So if you're looking for a better way, consider the above list of modules as a possible shortlist to further explore. Which one is going to be "best" (cfr. the "better way to accomplish this" in your question) is a matter of preferences, actual requirements, etc.