I know admins can currently login to the back-end and retrieve a direct link to both the thumbnail, and image that resides in the Gallery. But that doesn't help users when they attempt to insert an image into an article (using the Blogs function in CB w/Joomla articles) and have it lightboxed.

The problem comes for them when trying to use the image's link in the gallery. They are all currently formatted like this:


No lightboxing plugin that I've found so far can query the dimensions (x/y) of the target image and display it properly. They are usually cut off top/bottom and don't look correct. This is an example of what one lightbox displays - all are functionally broken when it comes to Gallery screens:



If there was a way to allow users to see the direct full-size (& thumbnail) file path on one of their images, it would go a long way towards embedding gallery images into articles, with pretty lightboxing effects. Or even a button that retrieves the direct URLs and places them in the article for the user to create a lightbox with. Masking the direct link can be helpful in certain situations, but in this case it seems like the functionality of the Gallery is being diminished.

That's unfortunate to hear about lightboxing the gallery. Not one out of the ten (?) or so plugins I tried was able to handle a non-image-file URL and display them properly - they can't query the full image size correctly from the URL. I finally had to give up on it and just allow users manually image linking off the thumbs.

But good news for a WYSIWYG editor button to help them do insertions in the future. Will look forward to that. Thanks krileon.

Yep, I installed the Content Bot plugin when I originally configured CB. I don't see a CB Gallery Bot on the plugins page (I assume that it changed names since the original demo for the Gallery Bot).

Do we have a list of the necessary syntax needed to reference insertions like an individual photo? I know in certain parts of the backend config there are a few examples, but I don't think I've ever seen a comprehensive one for the Content Bot.