Gallery menu and displaying the actual gallery

[tugeye]

I am new to joomla as well as phoca, I have read the documentation and tried several things but I cannot get it straight in my head.

What I am trying to do:
- Create a link on the main menu (top of site) that has a link (landscapes). Clicking this link will display a dropdown menu of sub-categories (parks cities, etc). Clicking on a sub-category will display a grid of all the pictures in that sub-category.

What I have done:
- in the phocagallery directory, I have created directories for parks and cities and uploaded the pictures to each directory.
- in phoca category manager, I have created the categories and linked them to the appropriate directory on the server.
- I have added a menu link to the main menu labelled Landscape Pictures and have set it to display list of categories

Questions:
I do not understand where I tell the menu "which" directory to get the names of the categories from
How do I actually display a thumbnail view of the pictures once a user has clicked on the menu category
- when I am in Phoca manager and I click on images, no pictures are listed. Its as though it is not seeing or reading the image directories I have made.

I realize these are basic questions. I think I am just missing a basic concept of how joomla categories/articles work and how Phoca interacts with them.
I am using Joomla 3 and the proper Phoca version for version 3.

[Benno]

Hi,

I realize these are basic questions. I think I am just missing a basic concept of how joomla categories/articles work and how Phoca interacts with them.

Yes, I think so too. You need to creat thumbnails of your images.
https://www.phoca.cz/documents/2-phoca-g ... categories

Go to: Components » Phoca Gallery » Images » and click on [Multiple Add] button. Now you are in Phoca Gallery [Multiple Add]. You can select the images or folder you want to add to the gallery here. If you select a folder and this folder contains subfolders and images, Phoca Gallery creates Category from selected folder, Subcategory from included subfolder and adds all the included images into this Category (Subcategory).

But you need to Enable Thumbnails Generation in Phoca Gallery Options before.
backend --> Components --> Phoca Gallery --> Control Panel --> Options --> Thumbnails --> Thumbnail Generation Settings --> Enable Thumbnails Generation =Yes

Kind regards,
Benno