Preface

Before you start to integrate picasaweb album with cpedialog, you must have an picasaweb account. If you have not got one yet, you can apply from: http://picasaweb.google.com You can also upload your photos to picasaweb by picasa.

Details

Add album menu for your site

If you want to make your album can be accessed by public, you need to add a menu for album firstly. Login as the system administrator to your blog, then switch to the system configuration module. You will see some tabs in this page, select the "Pages" Tab. Now in the "Menu Admin" table, you can add a row. If you still have not any menu yet, just double-click the "Add" column at the table header to add a record.

A alert message will pop-up to ask you whether to add a row. Click "OK", a default menu will be added to the table, then you can edit the default menu value directly.

Click the default menu title and set it to "Albums", click the default menu permalink and set it to "/albums"(this value is very import, the system will access albums from http://your_site_url/albums, so make sure you have set the correct value), click the default menu valid column and set it to "true".

Manager you picasaweb alubms accounts

After you add the album menu to your blog, you can access the album by click the link from the page menu area below the page header. Maybe you will get the follow page.

Don't worry, you just still need to add you picasaweb album username to the "Albums" table. In the system configuration module, swith to "Albums" tab, double-click the "Add" column in the album table header to add a new record.

Don't forget to modify the default username, set as your picasaweb album username. (For example, cpedia). Change the valid property of the record to be "true".

Then you can access your album.

You can add one or more albums to be shown for public.