Uploading pictures

The process of uploading pictures is a matter of following a simple dialog. It takes much longer to describe the process than do it.

• Start Windows Explorer and locate the directory with your photographs and select one or more pictures for upload.
• If the Windows Explorer left panel is not titled "Picture Tasks", click on the "X" in the top right corner of the panel to close it and to reveal the Picture Tasks panel.
• Select "Publish xxxx to the Web" from "File and Folder Tasks" on the left panel. "xxxx" could say "this file, these files or this folder" depending on what is highlighted on the right panel.
• On Web Publishing Wizard's Welcome screen click "Next".
• You can change your selection if necessary on the Thumbnail window showing up. Click "Next" when you are ready.
• From the service provider window highlight your Photo Gallery name and click "Next".
• Enter your Coppermine username and password to login to your gallery and click "Next".
• From the "Welcome username" window you have an option of uploading your picture(s) into one of the existing albums or starting a new album. Click "Next" when you are ready.
• Click "Next" in the upload starting confirmation window.
• Select the picture sizes for the uploaded pictures. If you are unsure about acceptable picture sizes, verify with your Gallery administrator. Click "Next" when you are ready.
• You are presented with the last window of the dialog and given a choice of opening the Gallery when the upload is complete.
• Click "Finish" to end the XP Web Publishing Wizard and to enter the Gallery to check the new album contents.
• In order to avoid the gallery being flooded by pictures uploaded through the wizard, only the gallery admins and users that can have their own albums can use this feature
• Once the upload has started, the wizard can't display any error message returned by the script so you can't know if the upload failed or succeeded until you check your gallery
• If the upload fails, the admin should enable "Debug mode" in Coppermine's config and try with one single picture and check error messages in the log file that is located in Coppermine's root directory on the server