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I got that message every time I was trying to add a picture to our gallery, maybe because I am on dialup. We are slowly getting all posts moved over found that I and another manager were duplicating some efforts and not realizing. I think might keep gallery for host pics like our banner and chat icons. also need to learn to add footer to show link to our chat

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Now that I've figured out how to add pictures to the gallery at my forum, how do I add a picture to my message when I post?  I tried testing it out by clicking on the button that means "insert image," but I'm stuck on what to do when the brackets appear.  Thanks in advance!

Thank you!

Are you setting the permissions thru the Manage Categorys page?


Set Category Permissions

After you Add a Category you will be back at the Manage Categorys Page.
Click the Permissions link across from the Category you just created.
Here you set Permissions for your Membergroups.
Use the dropdown box, choose a Membergroup.
Put checkmarks in the boxes you wish the Group to have access to use.
Click the Add Permissions Button.
Do this for all of your Membergroups

CATEGORY PERMISSION LIST
You can check/edit your Category Permissions here

what file format is the picture you are trying to upload?
Has to be a gif, jpg, or png

Quote from: simply sibyl on August 05, 2009, 11:22:43 pm

what file format is the picture you are trying to upload?
Has to be a gif, jpg, or png

How about JPEG? it worked once, tho. And when I tried again, it gives me Not a valid picture file

Btw, is there a limit as to how many pictures one can upload?

You have 25mb of space for your Gallery.

How many images can be uploaded is going to depend on how you have set things up,  size of the images, etc.
You need to setup a maximum file size.
You can setup Membergroup Space limits.   (From the settings page click File Space Manager)

Go back to the beginning of this Guide and read thru it -  it explains the settings on the settings page, etc.

How do you know what sizes that you need? Is there a list of sizes? What is the norm?


Max allowed image height:
Maximum height of images allowed in the gallery
Max allowed image width:
Maximum width of images allowed in the gallery
Max image filesize:
Maximum Filesize of images in the gallery

Thanks! So the images that my posters put in their posts takes away from what I will have to use in the gallery.The 25MB are for all of us together that choses to use the galley I am understanding correctly.

There really is no "normal size", you have to determine these yourself.

There is 25MB of space available in your Gallery regardless of what you put in here. Keep note that some of the settings there are for images in a post and some are for within the Gallery.