Introduction

By default, Image Galleries require a visitor to click the navigation arrows to browse through the images. This tutorial explains how to set up a gallery to rotate the images automatically.
Step 1: Navigate to your Image Gallery

Begin by clicking the "Pages" link, located at the top of your Digital Bell Dashboard. This will bring you to a list of your existing pages. Here, locate the page that contains the Image Gallery you would like to modify. Next, click the Edit button (pencil icon) to the left of the page title. This will bring you to the page's content editor, where you can update the Image Gallery.

Edit button

If you are creating a new Image Gallery, see Managing Image Galleries for instructions.

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Step 2: Editing your Image Gallery

In the page's content editor, locate the Image Gallery. Image Galleries will include a blue "Image Group" heading, with a list of the images below.

Image Group

Once you have located the gallery, click the "Settings" link, opposite "Image Group."

settings link

This will bring up the settings panel. Here, click the tab labeled "Variables." In the "Variables" tab, you will see two blank text boxes, separated by an equals (=) sign. Enter "autoplay" in the left-hand text box, then enter "true" in the right-hand text box. These settings tell the gallery to automatically rotate to the next image every seven seconds. 

variables autoplay = true

If you would like to modify the rotation timing, click the "+Add Item" button to create a second set of text boxes.

add item

To adjust the timing, enter "autoplaytimems" in the left-hand text box. The right-hand text box is then used to set a rotation speed, in milliseconds. For example, to rotate the images every eight seconds, enter "8000," or to rotate every 9.5 seconds, enter "9500."

autoplaytimems variable

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Step 3: Finish

Once you have entered the new settings in the "Variables" tab, click the "Submit" button to complete the process. 

submit button

To view the updated gallery, click the "View on Website" button, located in the right margin of the content editor. This will open your page, as it appears to visitors, in a new tab. To readjust the rotation speed, if necessary, return to the content editor and repeat step 2, using the optional "autoplaytimems" setting to enter a new rotation speed.

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