Flash Dynamic PhotoGrid

Flash PhotoGrid integrated with SharePoint's Picture Library (Version 1.0)

This is an easy to use Web Part that displays the contents of a Picture Library in a grid format using Adobe Flash Version 6 or greater.

Just set a few simple properties and the web part will show a grid of a specified number of pictures in the Picture Library with an optional dynamic preview of each picture. You can set the size of the grid window along with Display time if using the dynamic preview feature.

Its a great way to display picture sets of your products, employees, social events etc...

Download Flash PhotoGrid 1.0 for SharePoint 2003 

Download Flash PhotoGrid 1.0 for SharePoint 2007 

(Due to a bug in SharePoint 2007 these WebParts will not work correctly for anonymous users)

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You can configure the following properties:

Picture Library

Use the dropdown list to select the picture library that contains your pictures

Slide Alignment
Select the alignment of the Web Part Left, Right or Center.

Dynamic Preview
If checked then a large image will be randomly displayed. If not checked it will be a static display

Display Time
Time in seconds the large preview picture will be displayed before fading

Max Cached Images
Number of images to cache on the client. To limit impact on network traffic it's not recommended that more than 30 images be displayed.

Images per Row
Number of images in a row

Images Rows
Number of rows of images

WebPart Height, WebPart Width
Sets the size of the WebPart

 

 

Notes:
This version supports all pictures types that SharePoint can generate thumbnails for : bmp, jpeg, gif, tiff and png.

Installation Instructions

Intallation must be done from the SharePoint Server and requires SharePoint admin priviliges.

  • Unzip the contents of FlashPhotoGrid.zip. This file contains a batch file to help installation and also the Web Part cab file installation.
  • Run the InstallWebPart.cmd file.
  • Check the results of the command it should display:
    installflash-photogrid.cab Deploying to http://<yourwsssite>
    Operation completed successfully
  • The batch file contains a command line to call the WSS admin program stsadm.exe using the addwppack command to install the Web Part to all virtual servers on the machine.
Permissions

Since this web part is not installed into the GAC and uses the Sharepoint object model to allow the user to select the Picture Librarys permissions may need to be configured if your virtual server is running with WSS_Minimal trust settings.
By default Sharepoint is installed with a restrictive set of allowed permissions as defined in the WSS_Minimal config file.
For details about configuring the SharePoint config files see Web Part Configuration Details

Adobe Flash

If you have trouble getting Flash to work please try this Adobe support page http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=tn_15511