Help with using the Photo Gallery Add-on

October 19, 20214 yr

I rewatched Productive Computing's vid on YouTube ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w02FJzbCaTg&t=803s ), but I'm having a very difficult time following it since some of the layouts/tables in the vid don't match up with what's on my screen. What I want to do is tie the gallery to a related FMP file (on our FMP server) so when I choose a department name from a value list, its (related) members' photos will appear in the gallery.

I scoured the Web looking for a "FileMaker Pro Add-Ons for Dummies" tutorial that explains them in mentally-dense-developer detail, but no luck so far. If y'all can point me to such tutorials, or can explain how I can accomplish what I'm trying to do with simple instructions, I'd be very grateful.

Cheers,

Rich

October 20, 20214 yr

Hello. I think I can help . . .

All the add-ons require a target layout with the appropriate fields on it, so if the data is coming from another file, you need to really create the connection between the two files and create a layout based on the table occurrence of the table in the related file. This layout will be used both to collect the data from and to open when the user clicks a photo.

Once you get that set up, you can choose additional filtering. That is, you can use a dept name field (set as a drop down value list) as the "Query field". The "Search Field" is the one inside the source table that contains the department name.

I hope this blog post can help with the filtering aspect: https://www.geistinteractive.com/2020/10/01/filemaker-add-ons-filtering-the-data/

I'M GOING To do some confirmation that the add-ons can work with separate files. I don't see a problem, but there _might_ be an issue. I'm checking now.