• Registered: 2018-09-30
  • Posts: 9

Topic: LR plugin - how to use same settings on new installation

Old computer died.  Have installed LR and the JB pro plugin on new computer.  How can I configure all the same settings as int he past?  I don't remember them all and it I'm having a hard time getting new web galleries to match the old ones.  Examining the config.xml and index.html created in the past does not help because the tags in those files don't match the names of the settings in the LR UI.

A related question would be, can I edit any of the JB files so the defaults are what I want to use?

Thanks!

The following are from galleries with settings I want to reproduce...

Here is my index.html file

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<!-- modified based on https://juicebox.net/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=12545#p12545 -->
    <head>
        <title>2013 Boyer Family Photos</title>
        <meta charset="utf-8" />
        <meta name="viewport" id="jb-viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, minimum-scale=1, maximum-scale=1, user-scalable=0" />
        <meta name="description" content="a year's worth of Boyer photos" />
                <!--START OPEN GRAPH TAGS-->
        <meta property="og:description" content="a year's worth of Boyer photos" />
        <meta property="og:image" content="/images/MVI_0706.jpg" />
        <meta property="og:title" content="2013 Boyer Family Photos" />
        <meta property="og:type" content="website" />
        <meta property="og:url" content="/" />
        <!--END OPEN GRAPH TAGS-->
        <style type="text/css">
            body {
                margin: 0px;
            }
        </style>
    </head>
    <body>
        <!--START JUICEBOX EMBED-->
        <script src="jbcore/juicebox.js"></script>
        <script>
            new juicebox({
                backgroundColor: "rgba(34,34,34,1)",
                containerId: "juicebox-container",
                galleryHeight: "95%",
                galleryWidth: "100%"
            });
        </script>
        <div id="juicebox-container">
                    </div>
        <!--END JUICEBOX EMBED-->
    </body>
</html>

Here is the first part of the config.xml file

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<juiceboxgallery
                galleryTitlePosition="ABOVE_THUMBS"
                    thumbNavPosition="BOTTOM"
                    enableAutoPlay="true"
                    thumbPadding="2"
                    showAutoPlayButton="true"
                    showSmallThumbNav="true"
                    shareGPlus="true"
                    captionPosition="BELOW_IMAGE"
                    thumbHoverFrameWidth="3"
                    expandInNewPage="TRUE"
                    enableDirectLinks="true"
                    showDownloadButton="true"
                    buttonBarIconSize="15"
                    showEmailButton="true"
                    sharePinterest="true"
                    shareFacebook="true"
                    showNavButtons="true"
                    imagePadding="2"
                    thumbWidth="128"
                    buttonBarPosition="TOP"
                    enableLooping="true"
                    imageTransitionTime="0"
                    stagePadding="1"
                    thumbSelectedFrameWidth="7"
                    thumbShadowBlur="0"
                    maxThumbRows="10"
                    emailAddress="wslb@wboyer.net"
                    thumbHeight="128"
                    galleryDescription="a year&apos;s worth of Boyer photos"
                    frameWidth="2"
                    topAreaHeight="5"
                    maxThumbColumns="5"
                    thumbsPosition="LEFT"
                    buttonBarHAlign="LEFT"
                    emailSubject="Boyer family photo gallery"
                    galleryTitle="2013 Boyer Family Photos"
                    goNextOnAutoPlay="true"
                    showPagingText="true"
                    inactivityTimeout="5"
                    imageTransitionType="NONE"
        >
            <image imageURL="images/MVI_0706.jpg" thumbURL="thumbs/MVI_0706.jpg" linkURL="" linkTarget="_blank">
            <title><![CDATA[Jan 10, 2013]]></title>
            <caption><![CDATA[MVI_0706 (2009 12 22-30) -      ]]></caption>
  • Registered: 2012-04-24
  • Posts: 5,924

Re: LR plugin - how to use same settings on new installation

Examining the config.xml and index.html created in the past does not help because the tags in those files don't match the names of the settings in the LR UI.

The configuration options (stored as attributes to the opening <juiceboxgallery> tag in the gallery's 'config.xml' file) should match up with their corresponding settings in the Lightroom interface.
For example showAutoPlayButton (in the 'config.xml' file) is listed as "Show Auto Play Button" in the Lightroom plugin's 'Appearance -> Button Bar' section.
If you're not sure which section a certain configuration options is listed under, then search for the option name on the Config Options page and check which section header it comes under (and then scroll down the 'Appearance' section in the Lightroom plugin's interface until you find section header that you are looking for).

In Lightroom, you can save a set of Juicebox configuration options (like a JuiceboxBuilder preset) as a template.
With the settings as you want to save them, click the + sign to the right of the text 'Template Browser' (in the left panel of the 'Web' section) and select a name for your template.
At any time in the future, if you want to apply these settings to a gallery, expand the 'Template Browser' control panel, scroll down to the 'User Templates' section and select your template.

Alternatively, for a quick and easy way to copy configuration options from one gallery to another, you can just copy and paste the options (essentially the entire opening <juiceboxgallery> tag) from one gallery's 'config.xml' file to another (in a plain text editor).

Another thing you could do is open a gallery (whose options you'd like to copy) in JuiceboxBuilder-Pro.
Now, go to 'Presets -> Save Preset...' from the drop-down menu at the top (to save the gallery's configuration options as a preset file).
You can now open any other gallery in JuiceboxBuilder-Pro and load the preset file (Presets -> Load Preset...') to apply all the configuration options stored in the preset file to the gallery. (Then, just re-save the gallery on the 'Publish' tab.)

I hope this helps.