Changing default settings for Smugmug slideshow

bacton · September 18, 2005

I want to change the default setting for "Caption" to be "ON" in the Smugmug slideshow. Can this be done? How?

Many of my viewers do NOT realize that THEY need to do this. Without the captions "ON", they miss alot of what is happening in the gallery.

Thanks.

Bob.

landonfoot · July 30, 2006

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bacton wrote:

I want to change the default setting for "Caption" to be "ON" in the Smugmug slideshow. Can this be done? How?

Many of my viewers do NOT realize that THEY need to do this. Without the captions "ON", they miss alot of what is happening in the gallery.

Thanks.

Bob.

Hello, I am a new member to Smugmug and I've been looking for an answer to this question. This post is super old and I find it suprising that no one else has requested this or provided a solution. Being able to select the full screen, caption, and fade options as a default for vistors is a must! Surely this can be done. Any takers?

ivar · July 30, 2006

landonfoot wrote:

Hello, I am a new member to Smugmug and I've been looking for an answer to this question. This post is super old and I find it suprising that no one else has requested this or provided a solution. Being able to select the full screen, caption, and fade options as a default for vistors is a must! Surely this can be done. Any takers?

Hi Landonfoot! welcome to dgrin

I am not aware of a possibility to change the default settings for them. I do believe that the caption and fade are selected as default now. Hope this helps.

devbobo · July 30, 2006

landonfoot,

try this (add to javascript block)...

addEvent(window, "load", showSlideshowCaption);

function showSlideshowCaption()
{
  try
  {
    if (showCaption == false)
      setCaption();
  }
  catch(e) {}
}

landonfoot · August 16, 2006

Thank You!
Hi Guys,

Thanks for the welcome. I apologize for not posting this sooner but things have been crazy around here.

Devbobo,
That javascript worked like an absolute champ! Forgive my java and html ignorance, I'm a network guy myself. Could you tell me what additional event I would add to auto-start the fade option as well? Thanks again!

Landon

devbobo · August 16, 2006

Hey Landon,

No problem. I actually rewrote this code in another thread, I think this code is a little better.

addEvent(window, "load", enableSlideshowOptions);

function enableSlideshowOptions()
{
  if (YD.hasClass(document.body, "fsSlideshow"))
  {
    document.getElementById("captions").click();
    document.getElementById("fades").click();
  }
}

Cheers,

David

johnathan · December 15, 2006

Hi there

I'm new to SmugMug, looking to sign up using a Standard account, can I use javascript to customize my page?

If so, where do I put the Javascript?

Thanks.

ivar · December 15, 2006

johnathan wrote:

Hi there

I'm new to SmugMug, looking to sign up using a Standard account, can I use javascript to customize my page?

If so, where do I put the Javascript?

Thanks.

Hi Jonathan,

For a standard account it is not possible to use Javascript, you will need a power or pro account to do that.

johnathan · December 16, 2006

Cheers ivar.

ARG! · May 11, 2008

devbobo wrote:

landonfoot,

try this (add to javascript block)...

addEvent(window, "load", showSlideshowCaption);

function showSlideshowCaption()
{
  try
  {
    if (showCaption == false)
      setCaption();
  }
  catch(e) {}
}

How can I turn Captions off by default?

Andy · May 11, 2008

ARG! wrote:

How can I turn Captions off by default?

Turn them off in your gallery settings

ARG! · May 11, 2008

Andy wrote:

Turn them off in your gallery settings

When you say Settings ... I think of where I've seen Settings over and over again in the SmugMug UI, which is in the Control Panel. I'm fairly certain that is not the right place. I don't see anything there.

Next place that comes to mind is Customize option that shows up just below galleries. Checking there I don't see any option to turn Captions on or off. I see an option to use Filenames when captions are missing, which is set to No. Captions still display in full screen slide show until I manually turn them off using the slide show UI.

Where can I find "gallery settigns" and what option do I use to turn off Captions by default in the full screen slide show?

Changing default settings for Smugmug slideshow

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