[TYPO3-dam] DD DAM Gallery - Getting Started

[Jan-Hendrik Heuing [DD]]

>> I'm not sure what I need to do to get the DD DAM Gallery going, in the
>> absence of any documentation.
>>
>> I downloaded the extension today (and dd_extensionframework), placed the
>> plugin on a page, but nothing appears. I tried setting the starting point 
>> to
>> various places, but nothing worked. Cache cleared... all the usual things 
>> I
>> might try.
>>
>> I guess there is perhaps some Typoscript to set somewhere. Any hints
>> available?
>
> I think this extension currently is more like a proof of concept for the 
> extension-framework and far away from finished - you can use it as 
> reference for your own extensions based on the framework.

You are sort of right. Many people asked for the t3board.com extensions, 
here they are, but in alpha phase including no documentation ;) There will 
be an updated version with some more functionality, maybe even with 
documentation in a couple of weeks. But I do not promise any timetables, as 
this is seriously project related work, and I am currently working on 
plugin-things within the framework to cooperate with other extensions in 
some different way etc., so this has higher priority.

But anyway, the base functionality... It's working for you if I understood 
you right :) And if you have a look at the TS, you can control most of the 
things. Hint: If you want to plain-display field content, use 
###FIELD_myfieldname### as marker. If you want to get it processed somehow, 
you still have to do very little changes in dd_dam_gallery, but this will 
also be changed as well. it's on the todo list somewhere.

> As it uses the DAM, do you allready have categories and indexed 
> images/files in your DAM? Otherwise it will show nothing.
>
> The "normal" behaviour is to show all available categories with a 
> image-count of contained images. Then you can browse through the 
> categories.

There is just the "normal" behaviour ;)

JH