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File Gallery

File Galleries

The file galleries feature can be a site repository or download manager for all types of files: images, video, audio, podcasts, text, software (releases, patches, docs), etc., etc. Files uploaded into file galleries can easily be displayed or linked from Wiki pages, articles, or blog posts.

File galleries are created and configured through the Tiki interface. Use the Tiki permissions system to specify who can create galleries, upload, download and delete files, etc. Statistics are kept of each download. You can produce stats for the most downloaded files, most visited file galleries and last uploaded files.

File Gallery
File Galleries

Key features

Folders and Sub-folders with permissions
Keeps archives (so you can still access previous versions of a file)
Check-in / check-out / lock
Files can be in one or many categories
Workflows with Category Transitions
WebDAV access
Drafts
Search within files
Web-based editing of SVG and ODF files
Watch (email notification of changes)
Provide a secret link via e-mail for a read-only access to a normally restricted file

File Gallery improvements in Tiki8

WebODF has been integrated to support the viewing and editing of Open Document Format (ODF). Please see: Docs.

File Gallery improvements in Tiki7

Starting in Tiki7, wiki pages and user files can be stored in the file gallery. Also SVG editing is available via Draw.

File Gallery improvements in Tiki6

Starting in Tiki6, file in file galleries can have drafts, like Wiki pages.

File Gallery improvements in Tiki5

Starting in Tiki5, file galleries can be accessed via WebDAV.

File Gallery improvements in Tiki3

Starting in Tiki3, file galleries can also support image galleries, with image browsing, and dynamic insertion of wiki syntax to add an image to a wiki page.

File Gallery to produce image galleries
File galleries have been improved in a way that they can handle images also, and act de facto as image galleries, or podcast galleries, etc., with added features on them. This is to end up in newer tiki releases reducing code duplication between file galleries and image galleries, and users confusion on where to save and find files (whatever type they are). In the same way, in later Tiki releases, file galleries might also handle file attachments to wiki pages, ...

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File Gallery diaporama
Improved file gallery diaporama.

Moreover, File galleries are closer to replace image galleries, since they include most (if not all) the previous functonality from image galleries, and benefit from the improvements in the file galleries.

Examples:

New file types recognized by tiki
New file type icons have been added to file galleries in order to recognize and visualize them accordingly. They include: .7z, .flv, .mp4, .odg, odp, .ods, .odt, .ogm, .ogv, .svg.