Photo galleries

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The Photo galleries module allows you to publish image albums on the community's public site: photos of a wedding, a bar mitzvah, a community evening, a trip, etc. Each gallery groups its images under a name, a description, and categories that facilitate filtering on the visitor side.

Two screens coexist in this module:

Screen	Route	Role
Galleries list	/app/galeries/list	View, create, modify, and delete galleries.
Images of a gallery	/app/galeries/images?id=...	Upload, select, and delete the images of a specific gallery.

Overview of the list

The main screen displays the galleries as responsive cards (4 columns on large screen, 1 column on mobile). Each card shows:

• the cover — the first image of the gallery. If the gallery is empty, a gradient background with an image icon is displayed instead;
• the name of the gallery;
• the description if filled in;
• tags:
  • number of images (in cyan, with icon),
  • attached Booklet (in purple),
  • categories (in red, one per tag);
• the creation date;
• three actions at the bottom of the card:
  • red trash icon — Delete the gallery;
  • blue pencil icon — Edit the gallery's metadata;
  • green image icon — Open the gallery to manage its images.

At the top of the screen, an Add a gallery button opens the creation window. The galleries list is loaded by infinite scroll: 10 galleries are displayed initially, then 10 additional ones are loaded each time you reach the bottom of the page.

The pagination of the galleries list (10 per page, here) should not be confused with that of the images list inside a gallery: when you open a gallery to manage its images, the images are loaded in groups of 30 at a time (see Manage the images of a gallery).

Create a gallery

1. 1

   Click «Add a gallery»

   The button is at the top right. A modal window opens.

2. 2

   Select or create categories

   The Categories field is a multi-tag selector. There is no predefined catalog by Unisoft: the available categories are those that your organization has already used in its previous galleries.

   • Type to search among the categories that you (or another admin of your organization) have already used in previous galleries.
   • Type a new name then Enter to create a category on the fly. It then becomes available for your future galleries.

   You can select several categories for the same gallery. Free examples you could choose: wedding, bar mitzvah, bat mitzvah, trip, shabbat, purim. None of these names are imposed — you adopt the vocabulary that corresponds to your community.

3. 3

   Enter the name

   Public label of the gallery (for example: "Bar mitzvah of Daniel Cohen — April 12, 2026").

4. 4

   Complete the description (optional)

   Short text that will appear under the name on the card and on the detail page. Ideal for specifying the context (date, place, speaker).

5. 5

   Choose the attached Booklet

   The Booklet field allows you to attach the gallery to an accounting cash account, useful if your galleries are tied to a paid event (wedding, trip, etc.) whose revenues are already tracked on a dedicated Booklet.

   By default: General (main cash register). All Booklets configured in the Budget module appear in the list.

6. 6

   Validate

   Click Validate. The gallery is created — empty for the moment — and appears in the list. To add images to it, click the green image icon at the bottom of the card.

You don't need to have your photos on hand to create the gallery. Create it with its name and categories, then add the images later.

Add images to a gallery

1. 1

   Open the gallery

   On the gallery's card, click the green image icon (at the bottom right of the card). You arrive on the Gallery images screen.

2. 2

   Click «Add images»

   The button is at the top right. An upload window opens.

3. 3

   Drop or select the files

   The drop zone accepts:

   • drag-and-drop from your file explorer,
   • or click on the zone to open the file selector.

   You can select several images at once. Only image formats (JPG, PNG, GIF, WebP, etc.) are accepted.

4. 4

   Wait for the upload to finish

   Each file uploads independently. Once all images are loaded, the addition is automatically validated and the window closes.

5. 5

   The images appear in the grid

   The gallery refreshes and displays the new images.

The cover displayed on the gallery's card (in the main list) is automatically the first image of the gallery. To change the cover, you must delete and re-upload the images in the desired order.

Manage the images of a gallery

The Gallery images screen displays all the images as a column mosaic (1 to 4 columns depending on the screen width). The loading is progressive (30 images at a time).

Select images

• Click on an image selects it (blue outline + check).
• Click again deselects it.
• The button at the top right toggles between Select all and Deselect all.

Delete the selected images

As soon as at least one image is selected, a Delete N image(s) button appears at the top right of the screen.

1. 1

   Select the images to delete

   Click on each image to remove. You can also use Select all.

2. 2

   Click «Delete»

   The button indicates the number of selected images (for example "Delete 5 image(s)").

3. 3

   Confirm

   A confirmation request is displayed. Click Yes.

Once deleted, images cannot be restored from the backoffice. If you care about a shot, make a local copy before clicking.

Return to the galleries list

The Back to galleries button at the top left of the screen returns to the main list.

Modify the metadata of a gallery

1. 1

   Click the Edit icon

   The blue pencil icon at the bottom of the gallery's card opens the modal window, pre-filled with the current name, description, Booklet, and categories.

2. 2

   Modify the desired fields

   You can adjust the name, description, Booklet, or categories. The images of the gallery are not modifiable from this window — use the Gallery images screen.

3. 3

   Validate

   Click Validate. The changes are propagated to the public site within seconds.

Delete a gallery

1. 1

   Click the Delete icon

   The red trash icon at the bottom of the card opens a confirmation request.

2. 2

   Confirm

   Click Yes. The gallery and all its images are permanently deleted.

Unlike the deletion of an individual image, deleting an entire gallery removes the complete album from the public site. To simply temporarily hide a gallery without losing the images, there is currently no offline mechanism via the interface — the only solution is to delete it then recreate it if necessary. Prepare your backups accordingly if you care about the shots.

Search

The main screen does not offer a search bar: it works in reverse chronological infinite scroll (the most recent galleries at the top). To find an old gallery, scroll or use public filtering by category from the site itself (if the feature is enabled).

How the galleries appear on the public site

If you have enabled the Galleries link in the site menu, a dedicated page lists the published galleries as a grid of thumbnails. When clicking on a gallery, the visitor arrives on the detail page showing all the images, generally with a lightbox on click for large viewing.

A Gallery preview section can also appear on the home page (theme configuration) to highlight the latest published gallery.

The category filtering on the visitor side relies on the tags you entered when creating each gallery.

Best practices

• Take care of the first image you upload: it's what serves as the cover. If you plan 50 photos, put the most beautiful, the most emblematic first.
• Use consistent categories: a visitor filtering on wedding shouldn't see 14 different categories. Decide on a restricted vocabulary and stick to it (for example: wedding, bar mitzvah, shabbat, purim, passover, trip).
• Prefer optimized images (reasonable weight, generally < 1 MB per image) — Unisoft serves images as you upload them; 8 MB files will slow down the site and burden the visitors' bandwidth on mobile.
• Don't over-publish — a gallery of 200 quasi-identical photos is less effective than a selection of 30 strong photos.
• Anonymize what should be — check that minor faces, personal inscriptions, or sensitive elements do not end up on the public site without the agreement of the people concerned.

Special cases

Private gallery (reserved for members)

The module does not handle restricted visibility. All galleries are public. To share photos internally only, use an external channel (WhatsApp group, shared Drive, etc.) rather than this module.

Image reordering

There is no drag-and-drop to reorder images in the grid. If the order is crucial, delete and re-upload in the desired order — the gallery respects the upload order.

Several photographers for the same event

Upload all the images in the same gallery, regardless of the photographer. The module does not attribute photo credit. If you care about mentioning the authors, add them in the description of the gallery.

Event album

If you have published an event poster (for example: "Grand Purim Ball 2026"), create afterwards a photo gallery with the same name with a purim or ball category. The bridge between the poster and the gallery is done visually on the visitor side, who find the memories in the Galleries section.

Going further

• Site menu — enable or not the Galleries link in the public navigation bar.
• Site events — the poster you publish upstream may have its memory gallery downstream.