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If you use Album and try the lightbox template but can't seem to get the next/prev. link images to show, I've found a solution...

Go to Album and on option tab click View Default Stylesheet then copy it to paste into a new style sheet and uncheck Auto Link Stylesheet: attach new style sheet to template and they appear, this after trying every trick in the book what a simple thing...

Your mileage may vary...

What helped me solve this issue was changing the path in the lightbox.css from relative to the absolute path.

If you look at the file in /modules/Album/templates/db/lightbox/css/lightbox.css the images are linked in with url relative to the css file ../images/prevlabel.gif
changing it to /modules/Album/templates/db/lightbox/images/prevlabel.gif solved the issue.

A word of caution CMSms does not use the lightbox.css directly so you might have to update the paths in the album style-sheet
/modules/Album/css/stylesheet.css

This is not a permanent fix for this issue since the path is absolute & would break if you're running CMSms from a subfolder. 

Can I be a bit dense here (sorry I'm a newbie!)

Go to Album and on option tab click View Default Stylesheet then copy it to paste into a new style sheet and uncheck Auto Link Stylesheet: attach new style sheet to template and they appear, this after trying every trick in the book what a simple thing...

How do I attach the new new style sheet.  There doesn't seem to be a gui provided so I assume I need to add the link to the stylesheet directly into the template myself.  I tried adding the following to the lightbox template (thru the edit link in the templates list)
but no luck (even after clearing the cache).

Thanks alot

Gill

p.s.  I was looking at a site that was linked from another thread about lack of lightbox and his lightbox album was being presented as a slideshow.  How do you do that?

Once you create a new style sheet you have 2 ways to attach it to a template...

1) go to Layout > Templates click orange CSS icon to the right of the template name find CSS in drop down click Attach Style Sheet button...

2) go to Layout > Style Sheets click orange CSS icon to the right find name of Template in drop down click Attach button...

Dear Mark,

I understand now.  I'm attaching the copied stylesheet to the page template that I'm using.  I thought I was supposed to attach the new style sheet to the Album template which didn't appear to be possible.

And it works.  Yippeeeeee

thanks 

Gill