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I'm trying to build a site which should have gallery functionality. I think we should be able to solve this with Drupal 7. So my question is: is there any module/feature etc. (or any combination of modules), which can solve the following?

  • The site is on Drupal 7.
  • (A) We will have a gallery manager role. Every user with that role should be able to upload and manage his/her own galleries. We will have at least 10 person with this role.
  • (B) A gallery should be able to contain/display/manage ~100 pictures, so batch uploading and editing (for captions, ordering, etc.) is necessary.
  • Support for usual Drupal goodies like image styles, Views etc.
  • Support for a clearbox-like display, preferably integration with the Colorbox module.
  • Support for YouTube videos in galleries would be nice, but not a must have.

I've already checked a lot of suggestions in the topic. Alternatives that probably won't work in my case (please correct me if I'm wrong):

  • A Drupal 7 version of Node Gallery would solve almost all of this, but it's not likely that we will see anything like that soon. edit: Node Gallery is now completely and totally unsupported, meaning that we won't see a D7 port ever.
  • Media Gallery is a somewhat incomplete module - I've tried to build the functionality above with that, but I can't see any way to support point (A), not to mention a big bunch of bugs that would make it impossible to use it on a production site. Also it's not maintained well.
  • Field Slideshow is just a nice formatter, I don't think it's possible to use anything like that in my use case. As far as I can understand, a formatter-based solution won't scale well enough for (B), not to mention the missing management functionality. Gallery formatter is the same from my point of view.

I would appreciate any suggestions on solving this. I'm not afraid of building something from scratch (whether it means playing around in Views, coding or both), but at least I would like to know where to start to achieve all of this.

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  • Any reason why you can't just use views, a custom post type, feeds importing and lots of coffee?
    – chrisjlee
    Commented Mar 13, 2012 at 16:16
  • @chrisjlee I would be happy to check out your idea if you could explain what should I use to build the (B) part. (See: I should be able to edit information about a bunch of images from the admin interface.)
    – Scorchio
    Commented Mar 13, 2012 at 16:21
  • You should look into feeds. E.g. you would use a csv to manage each gallery. That would manage part b. BTW all the suggestions that you provided don't solve part B. They're very messy.
    – chrisjlee
    Commented Mar 13, 2012 at 16:44
  • @chrisjlee Node Gallery would, as I mentioned. Managing each gallery with CSV files - it's should be possible to manage those galleries from admin interface, what about user experience?
    – Scorchio
    Commented Mar 13, 2012 at 16:53
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    Over here, I've posted an initial suggestion for building just what you are asking for, a flexible gallery. If it's of any help to you, you are welcome to take part there. :)
    – Letharion
    Commented Mar 13, 2012 at 20:47

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In D7, I do galleries with the image field and the plup module. Nothing fancy, but at the same time, probably because it is nothing fancy, you automatically get support for colorbox, permissions (standard core or from contrib like Field permissions module), image styles, image captions (using the image caption module) and any other (image-)field related functionality.

So far it has fully satisfied my needs

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