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2 Page 2 of 21 Table of Contents 1. Introduction What s new in v Precondition Publish your photos with Cross Photo Gallery Step 1: Install module Step 2: Add CrossPhoto_Admin module to manage data Step 3: Add a gallery Step 4: Add category Step 5: Add albums & photos Step 6: Use CrossPhoto_Photo sub module to display your photos Enhance your photo gallery CrossPhoto_Detail : CrossPhoto_Silverlight : CrossPhoto_Album : CrossPhoto_Photo : CrossPhoto_ListDashboard : CrossPhoto_Search : CrossPhoto_Taglist : CrossPhoto_TagDashboard : CrossPhoto_Author : CrossPhoto_Archive : CrossPhoto_Gallery : CrossPhoto_Category Multiple users support Advanced configurations : Store files on Amazon Simple Storage Services (Amazon S3) : Upload large files and play.flv/.mp4 video files : Retrieve Flickr/Picasa photos : Disable unwanted fields : Customize your own fields : Other detail information How to write template Template are ascx files Template directory structure Template created steps... 16

3 Page 3 of 21 9 Uninstall module More help information About us Support Acknowledgments Faqs... 19

4 Page 4 of Introduction Cross Photo Gallery 5.6 enables multiple users publish their photo and attached video/audio/document as easy as ABC. It includes 13 sub modules which offer many cool features which haven t seen in other competitors, as followings: 1.Multiple user support, authorized users can post their own photo and attached photo/document with it. 2. Each user can manage their files. Module will resize photos to specific size if they are too big. 3. Amazon Simple Storage Services (Amazon S3) supported. 4. Upload multiple/large files at one time using Ms Silverlight upload control. 5. Automatic import Flickr.com/Picasa.com albums/photos/tags. (new in v5.2) 6. All display interfaces are template based. 7. Administrator can disable unwanted photo attributes. 8. Administrator can create additional photo attributes as their wish. 9. Rss/ integrated. 10. There are 13 sub modules in package, but all information are manage via 1 single module(crossphoto_admin), the other 12 sub modules are used to display information. 11. Fully integrate with Dnn 6.2 journal module. When a new photo/comment is created, it will automatic add in dnn 6.2 journal. (new in v5.5) 12. Google image sitemap integrated to let Google index your images more easily (new in v5.1). 13. Display albums & photo via Ms silverlight (new in v5.1)... Visit to download 30 days trial version, please read Cross Photo Gallery 5.6 User Guide.pdf before configure it. If you use our module on your site, please visit submit your showcase at Thanks.

5 Page 5 of What s new in v Add watermark to uploaded photos. 2. Share albums/photos with social groups/friends/followers. 3. Precondition 1. Dnn Sql server 2005/2008/2010 or sql express 2005/2008/ Asp.net framework 3.5 and above. 4. Publish your photos with Cross Photo Gallery The typical scenario involves the following steps: Step 1.Install module. Step 2. Add CrossPhoto_Admin module to manage data. Step 3. Add gallery. Step 4. Add categories. Step 5. Add album/photo. Step 6. Add CrossPhoto_Album/CrossPhoto_Photo module to display your albums/photos. 4.1 Step 1: Install module If you already bought module, unzip package which you got, you will see CrossPhotoGallery 5.6 Pa(Standard).zip (or CrossPhotoGallery 5.6 Pa(Enterprise).zip if you bought enterprise edition), choose it as install package. If you want to trial module first, you can download CrossPhotoGallery 5.6 trial package.zip at it you will see CrossPhotoGallery 5.6 Pa(trial).zip. Click Host - Extensions - Install extension wizard to install module. After installation, you will see 13 sub modules.

$you can use another way to install it, as followings: 1. Upload CrossPhotoGallery 5.6 Pa(Standard).zip to Install\Module folder of your site using ftp tools. 2.$

6 Page 6 of 21 Install via Ftp The install package size is about 6.0 mb. If you have problem to upload by click Host - Extensions - Install extension wizard.you can use another way to install it, as followings: 1. Upload CrossPhotoGallery 5.6 Pa(Standard).zip to Install\Module folder of your site using ftp tools. 2. Click Host Extensions, then click Available Extensions button, chooses CrossPhoto_Admin which under Modules section, click Install button to install Step 2: Add CrossPhoto_Admin module to manage data First, you may need create a page before add CrossPhoto_Admin to it. Please make sure the View page permission is available for All Users. Like below: Create Photo Admin page.

http://dnnmodule.com/ Page 7 of 21 Give View page permission for all users. After that, add CrossPhoto_Admin to page.

7 Page 7 of 21 Give View page permission for all users. After that, add CrossPhoto_Admin to page. This sub module is used to manage all data in Cross Photo Gallery package. You only need 1 instance per portal. The Admin control panel only available for site administrators or roles which have data manager permission.

8 Page 8 of 21 My albums &photos section available for roles which have rights to post photos. My Feedback section available for all registered users. Help section only available for site administrators, we have put a lot of information on there. We strongly recommend you read help information to know more detail about this module. 4.3 Step 3: Add a gallery Click Admin Control Panel Data Manager - Galleries to add gallery. Galleries are top-level data to organize information. Each gallery has its own

http://dnnmodule.com/ Page 9 of 21 categories/attributes/tags/albums (photos). Each gallery needs a separate page to display photos detail which belongs to it.

9 Page 9 of 21 categories/attributes/tags/albums (photos). Each gallery needs a separate page to display photos detail which belongs to it. That page must have a CrossPhoto_Detail module on it. Module will display a wizard page to guide you create it when you add a new gallery. Note, you can also run that wizard by click Run detail page setting wizards button later. Tips: some people may ask why we need create gallery? Well, gallery is mainly used to organize attributes/categories. For example, if you use Cross Photo Gallery to publish both cars and animals photos, you may need create different attributes for car and animal, and you also need different categories to organize them. Gallery let you solve this problem easily. 4.4 Step 4: Add category Click Admin Control Panel Data Manager - Categories to add categories. You must specify at least 1 category for each gallery. An album can belong to multiple

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10 Page 10 of 21 categories. 4.5 Step 5: Add albums & photos Now you can add your albums & photos in My Albums & Photos - My albums & photos, you may need upload your photo/image/document in My Albums & Photos My Files before add it. For quick start, let add a photo from external as example. Click My Albums & Photos - My albums & photos, then click Add Album button, enter a album title, choose Image File Type as External Url, enter a image url ( like Logo.jpg), after that, choose a category for it, click Update to save album. After created an album, you can put multiple photos into it. You can also attach multiple documents/audios/videos with an album. 4.6 Step 6: Use CrossPhoto_Photo sub module to display your photos. Now you can use CrossPhoto_Photo sub module to show your photos. First, create a separate page, then add CrossPhoto_Photo sub module instance to it. You can add multiple instances to pages as your wish. Click Photo list settings you will see multiple control options to let you control the layout of photo list. You can also add CrossPhoto_Album module to show your albums. Click Album list settings you will see a lot of control options. V5.1 adds a new sub module CrossPhoto_Silverlight to let you show albums/photos via Ms silverlight. It looks professional and beautiful.

http://dnnmodule.com/ Page 11 of 21 5. Enhance your photo gallery As we can see, there are 13 sub modules in Cross Photo Gallery.

1 CrossPhoto_Detail Use this module to display album/photo detail information, you need add a detail page first, then add CrossPhoto_Detail module instance for every photo gallery, However, you don't

11 Page 11 of Enhance your photo gallery As we can see, there are 13 sub modules in Cross Photo Gallery. We talk a lot of with CrossPhoto_Admin module in Publish your first photo with Cross Photo Gallery section. Now let s see other sub modules function. 5.1 CrossPhoto_Detail Use this module to display album/photo detail information, you need add a detail page first, then add CrossPhoto_Detail module instance for every photo gallery, However, you don't need worry about it. Module will display a wizard page to guide you create these pages while add photo galleries. Of course, you can also add it by your self if you like, as followings: A: Create a photo detail page Make sure page is view by all users. If you don t want this page display on menu, you can uncheck include in menu, to hidden it. After page added, add CrossPhoto_Detail module to this page. And click Photo detail settings to customize its layout.

http://dnnmodule.com/ Page 12 of 21 5.2: CrossPhoto_Silverlight V5.1 adds a new sub module CrossPhoto_Silverlight to let you show albums/photos via Ms silverlight. It looks professional and beautiful.

12 Page 12 of : CrossPhoto_Silverlight V5.1 adds a new sub module CrossPhoto_Silverlight to let you show albums/photos via Ms silverlight. It looks professional and beautiful. 5.3: CrossPhoto_Album Use this module to display album list. You can add many instances per portal. Click Album list settings to customize it. 5.4: CrossPhoto_Photo Use this module to display photo list. You can add many instances per portal. Click Photo list settings to customize it. 5.5: CrossPhoto_ListDashboard Use this module to display album/photo dashboard via flash. You can add many instances per portal. Click Photo dashboard settings to customize it. 5.6: CrossPhoto_Search Use this module to provide album/photo search function. You can add many instances per portal. Click Photo search settings to customize it. 5.7: CrossPhoto_Taglist Use this module to display photo tag list. 5.8: CrossPhoto_TagDashboard Use this module to display photo tag dashboard via flash 5.9: CrossPhoto_Author Display photo author list, it is useful if you have many users publish photos

13 Page 13 of : CrossPhoto_Archive Use this module to display album/photo archive date. 5.11: CrossPhoto_Gallery Use this module to display photo galleries. 5.12: CrossPhoto_Category Use this module to display album categories. 6. Multiple users support By default, only site administrator can post albums/photos. If you want to enable other users post photos to your site, you can click Admin Control Panel - Configurations - Edit Roles to add roles which can post photos. You can specify their disk quote and photo count as your wish. Note, if import from flickr/picasa option is checked, then user can imports their albums/photos/tags from flickr/picasa by provide their flickr/picasa accounts. 7. Advanced configurations Cross Photo Gallery introduces a lot of powerful features which haven t seen in other competitor modules. Instead of write long and complicated help document to explain every detail of them. We choose to integrate these information directly into module interface. Below are some important areas which you need read before use this module. 7.1: Store files on Amazon Simple Storage Services (Amazon S3) Click Admin Control Panel - Configurations - Global Settings in CrossPhoto_Admin module, then expand File Storage, switch to Amazon Simple Storage Services

http://dnnmodule.com/ Page 14 of 21 (Amazon S3) and provide necessary information. 7.

Expand Help mime type to see how to configure it: 7.3: Retrieve Flickr/Picasa photos.

then expand Flickr.com integration, to see more detail. 7.

14 Page 14 of 21 (Amazon S3) and provide necessary information. 7.2: Upload large files and play.flv/.mp4 video files. Expand Help mime type to see how to configure it: 7.3: Retrieve Flickr/Picasa photos. Click Admin Control Panel - Configurations - Global Settings in CrossPhoto_Admin module, and then expand Flickr.com integration, to see more detail. 7.4: Disable unwanted fields Photo has some built-in fields, like author/source/summary, etc. If you don't need these fields, you can disable them in Admin control panel Data Manager Galleries

http://dnnmodule.com/ Page 15 of 21 of CrossPhoto_Admin module. If a field is disabled, then it will not display on photo edit interface which belong to current photo gallery.

5: Customize your own fields You can use Admin control panel Data Manager Attributes feature of CrossPhoto_Admin module to create extend fields.

15 Page 15 of 21 of CrossPhoto_Admin module. If a field is disabled, then it will not display on photo edit interface which belong to current photo gallery. And of course, it will also disappear in photo list and detail module too. 7.5: Customize your own fields You can use Admin control panel Data Manager Attributes feature of CrossPhoto_Admin module to create extend fields. You can create attributes for varied data type like string/date/time/decimal/integer/image/url/ . You can specify its title/default value/help text/ validate rules/edit style, you can also provide a list of value to let author choose while editing. After a field is created, it will be treated like built-in fields. It can be displayed in CrossPhoto_Photo and CrossPhoto_Detail module.

http://dnnmodule.com/ Page 16 of 21 7.6: Other detail information We provide as detail as possible information for every fields via dnn standard.

16 Page 16 of : Other detail information We provide as detail as possible information for every fields via dnn standard. Whenever you feel confusion, click the left help button of field, you will see more detail information. Like below: 8. How to write template 8.1 Template are ascx files All the templates are ascx files, to write it, you need be familiar with asp.net ascx syntax. 8.2 Template directory structure Template files should be put in the related right directory. 8.3 Template created steps Take CrossPhoto_Photo template as example.

17 Page 17 of Create a folder under DesktopModules\CrossPhoto\Template\Photo, named it as MyList as example. 2. Copy DesktopModules\CrossPhoto\Template\ Photo \default\app_localresources directory and DesktopModules\CrossPhoto\Template\Photo \default\ PhotoList_Standard.ascx file to MyList folder. 3. Change PhotoList_Standard.ascx file name as your wish, for example, MyList.ascx. Of course, you can keep its original file name if you wish. 4. Open MyList.ascx file via Visual studio 2008 or something else, change its content, note, you need be familiar with asp.net ascx syntax before change it. 5. Add CrossPhoto_Photo module instance to page, click Photo list settings, in General template, select MyList.ascx. 6. Now module will use your own template to display. Of course, you can put your own templates under DesktopModules\CrossPhoto\Template \Photo\default directory if you like. We have put two templates for CrossPhoto_Album module under DesktopModules\CrossPhoto\Template \Album \default as example, you can open them to see more detail. 9 Uninstall module We recommend you follow below steps to uninstall module. 1. Click Host - Extensions, then click the button to uninstall CrossPhoto_TagList... to CrossPhoto_Album module one by one

18 Page 18 of When uninstall CrossPhoto_Admin module, check on delete files option to delete all files which related to Cross Photo Gallery module. 10 More help information We provide many detail help information on CrossPhoto_Admin module, login in as site administrator and expand Help section you will see it. 11 About us DnnModule.com is build to provide quality modules and skins, some of them are free, some not. We wish these stuffs (free or not) can be useful to you. Following is part of our released module: Cross Photo Gallery 5.5 Cross Article 7.3 Ultra Flash Player 7.7 (21-in-1) Ultra Image Slideshow 4.7(24-in1) Silverlight Photo Gallery 5.2 Classified Pro 7.5 Cross Video Gallery 5.6

19 Page 19 of 21 Silverlight Carousel Magazine 4.0 Visitor tracking plug-in 4.1(Google Analytics and Ms Bing, free) Flash Photo Gallery 3.7 for dnn YouTube Sidebar 4.2 Skin/Container Switch 3.5 Yahoo Photo Player for Dnn (free) Flash Numeric Rotator 4.0 Carousel Flow Gallery 4.3 Silverlight Panorama Viewer 3.0 Please visit for more detail Support You can visit our support forum at or mail to for directly help. 13 Acknowledgments We learn a lot of from below modules while developing: 1. Silverlight file upload module from Michael Washington 2. Dnn official module - Form and list 14 Faqs A. How to upgrade from trial version to official version? Q. Simply re-install official version to overwrite existing trial version, then module will work under official domain name and keep your existing data. Note, dnn will display a red message "The package is already Installed." while you re-install using the official package, in this case, just check the "Repair Install" option to continue.

20 Page 20 of 21 A. How to register my module? Q: If you bought standard edition for Cross Photo Gallery module, you need register your copy by provide your invoice id. As followings: 1. In CrossPhoto_Admin module, expand Register Cross Photo Gallery Module, enter your invoice id while bought this module, then click Register. 2. If you install module on test site, don t register it. 3. Unregistered copy of standard edition can only add up to 50 photo items. 4. Enterprise edition and enterprise + source edition don t need register. A. The captcha image doesn t show in product detail, how to solve it? Q: It occurs in some dnn version with asp.net 4.0, check dnn forum at pe/posts/default.aspx# to see how to fix it. Q: I don't want to see some fields (e.g. the "source" field) while adding photo, how can I hide it? A: Click "Admin Control Panel - Data Manager - Galleries ", then uncheck "Photo attributes enable - Enable 'Source' Field:" option while edit gallery, then the "source" fields will not disappear in photo edit interface. Q: How can I create additional fields for photos? A: Click "Admin Control Panel - Data Manager - Attributes". Q: I want to post detail description (html based content) for photo, how can I do that? A: Click "Admin Control Panel - Data Manager - Galleries ", then check "Photo attributes enable - Enable 'Detail' Field" option while edit gallery, then you will see "detail description" field (html editor based) appear in photo edit interface. Q: I want albums/photos be approval before display, how to do it? A: Click "Admin Control Panel - Configurations - Global Settings, then check on "General - Approval album before published option. Q: I don't want to user upload related videos (audios/attachments) to their albums, how to do it?

21 Page 21 of 21 A: Click "Admin Control Panel - Configurations - Global Settings, then check on "General - enable attach videos (or audios/documents as your wish)" option to restrict user upload related videos (audios/attachments). Q: When I click photo in CrossPhoto_Photo module, it doesn't show its detail, why? A: Make sure you provide a valid "Detail Page" for current photo gallery. That page must have a CrossPhoto_Detail module instance on it and its "gallery" must be same as CrossPhoto_Photo module instance. You can click "Run detail page setting wizards" to config it. Q: How can I view an album if it is marked as private or protected? A: A private album can only be viewed by site administrators and album owner. It will not display to public. You can view them by click "My Albums & Photos - My Albums & Photos" and click album title to watch it. Protected albums can be displayed to public via CrossPhoto_Album module. Site administrator and album owner can directly view its detail, other users need provide a valid protect password before view its detail. Q: Why CrossPhoto_Photo module can't display some of my photos? A: If a photo belongs to a protected album, then it will not display on CrossPhoto_Photo module. However, you can put a CrossPhoto_Album module to show that album, and enter it s protect password to view photos of that album. Q: Why I can't search photos under dnn built-in search box? A: Make sure you provide a valid "Detail Page" for every photo gallery. That page must have a CrossPhoto_Detail module instance on it and its "gallery" must be same as selected gallery. You can click "Run detail page setting wizards" to configure it.

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