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Topic: Why are Juicebox-Pro Options blank in Lightroom?

Juicebox-Pro Options are blank in Lightroom.
I have JB-Pro and Lightroom 5.5 on a Win 8.1 system and have just installed juicebox.lrwebengine.  In Lightroom Web panel, Juicebox appears under "Layout Styles", JuiceboxLightroom Plugin v1.4.2,0 appears under "Site Info", and five Juicebox-Lite Options appear under "Appearance".  Juicebox-Pro Options also appears but no options are shown.  Shouldn't the Pro options show here?
All suggestions gratefully received.
Jim Gregory

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Re: Why are Juicebox-Pro Options blank in Lightroom?

The Pro Options section within the Lightroom plugin's interface is a text area where Pro Options can be entered as text in the form optionValue="optionName" (e.g. autoPlayOnLoad="TRUE").
Please see the Alternative Methods to set Pro options section at the foot of the Lightroom plugin's support page.

None of the Juicebox plugins are as fully-featured as JuiceboxBuilder-Pro (which comes with Juicebox-Pro and has individual controls within its interface for all Pro Options) and they are provided as a convenience for users who already use programs such as Lightroom and want to be able to create Juicebox galleries within their existing workflow.

It is actually quite a quick and easy process to open a gallery (created by the Lightroom plugin) in JuiceboxBuilder-Pro, customize the gallery as required and re-save the gallery.
You could even create a preset in JuiceboxBuilder-Pro so that you can quickly apply a collection of configuration options to an existing gallery in a single action.

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Re: Why are Juicebox-Pro Options blank in Lightroom?

Thanks Steven.  Your reply clarifies my option question but raises two other (newbie) questions:
1.  How do you open a gallery created by the Lightroom plugin with JuiceboxBuilder-Pro? 
2.  Should galleries saved in Juicebox-Pro be listed when clicking "Open Gallery"?  I created two galleries with JB-pro and saved both (to same folder).  Html files show up for both galleries in Windows Explorer but not via Open Gallery.
Jim

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Re: Why are Juicebox-Pro Options blank in Lightroom?

1.  How do you open a gallery created by the Lightroom plugin with JuiceboxBuilder-Pro?

In order to open an existing gallery in JuiceboxBuilder-Pro (created by either JuiceboxBuilder-Pro or the Lightroom plugin), you need to click 'Open Gallery...' (or 'Gallery -> Open...' from the drop-down menu at the top) and then navigate towards and select the gallery folder itself (not a file) before clicking 'Select Folder'. The gallery folder is the folder which contains the gallery's XML file and the gallery's XML file must be named 'config.xml'. (If you have renamed or moved this file, then the gallery will not be able to be opened by JuiceboxBuilder-Pro.)

2.  Should galleries saved in Juicebox-Pro be listed when clicking "Open Gallery"?

No. There is no 'Recently opened...' list.

I created two galleries with JB-pro and saved both (to same folder).

A Juicebox gallery is a collection of files and not just a single file (like when creating and saving a text document or a spreadsheet).
I would recommend that you save each gallery into a folder of its own.
Each gallery has an XML file (listing the gallery's configuration options and the images to be displayed) named 'config.xml'.
If you were to save multiple galleries into the same folder, then one gallery's XML file will be overwritten by another's.
Also, if you rename or move the 'config.xml' file within a gallery folder, JuiceboxBuilder-Pro will not be able to open the gallery.
Just save all your galleries into separate and unique folders and all should be fine.

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Re: Why are Juicebox-Pro Options blank in Lightroom?

Thanks again Steven, I feel like I am making progress but am still very much a newbie here and am having trouble getting screen-filling gallery images.  I have generate a gallery using the Lightroom plug-in and customized with Juicebox-Pro. My images are 5472x3648; my monitor is 2560x1600; and my JB settings are:
Gallery Width: 100%
Gallery Height: 100%
Screen Mode: Auto
Expand in New Page: Auto
Resize with these Set Image Sizes:  Medium 1024x768; Large 2560x1600; Small: 800x600, Quality: 80.
You help is much appreciated.
Jim

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Re: Why are Juicebox-Pro Options blank in Lightroom?

Here are a few tips which should hopefully help to clarify a few things.

If you create a gallery with the Lightroom plugin and then edit it in JuiceboxBuilder-Pro to create a multi-size image gallery, then the images that Juicebox will have to work with are the images in the gallery's 'images' folder. When resizing images, JuiceboxBuilder-Pro scales down large images but does not scale up smaller images so if the images in the 'images' folder are already smaller than the maximum image bounds for the specified image sizes, then they will simply be copied across to the gallery folder as they are without being upscaled. Therefore, make sure that Lightroom exports images large enough that they have to be downscaled by JuiceboxBuilder-Pro.

When displaying a gallery in Large Screen Mode, Juicebox displays the Medium size images in the standard gallery. Large size images are reserved for use when the gallery is expanded fullscreen (via the Expand button on the Button Bar) and for when an individual image is opened in a new window (via the Open Image button on the Button Bar).
For more information about Screen Modes, please see here.
For more information about Multi-Size Image Support, please see here.

When a gallery is displayed by Juicebox, the images are scaled within the gallery's image area according to the imageScaleMode configuration option (found in JuiceboxBuilder-Pro's 'Customize -> Main Image' section). By default, its value is SCALE_DOWN. Images larger than the image area will be scaled down (respecting the image's aspect ratio) but images smaller than the image area will not be scaled up. Alternative values for this configuration option (and short descriptions of each) can be found in the Main Image section of the Config Options page.

Images within a Juicebox gallery will only ever fill the image area within the gallery. If you want your images to cover the entire screen, you will need to disable gallery elements for which space is reserved, such as the thumbnails and make sure that other elements such as the caption area, the Gallery Title and the Button Bar are either disabled or displayed on the overlay (rather than in positions outside the image area). You may also need to set imageScaleMode="FILL" (although this will crop images unless their aspect ratio matches that of the image area).