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Highlighting content in galleries

The Gallery app highlights the community files or the contents of a community folder on the community Highlights page. The app displays thumbnails or file type icons for the files in the folder.

The following document, photo, and video file formats are supported.

Application File type
IBM® Lotus® Symphony™ Documents .odt, .ott
IBM Lotus Symphony Presentations .odp, .otp
IBM Lotus Symphony Spreadsheets .ods, .ots
Microsoft™ Word .doc, .docx, .dot, .dotx,
Microsoft PowerPoint .ppt, .pptx, .pot, .potx,
Microsoft Excel .xls, .xlsm, .xlsx, .xlt, .xltx,
Adobe™ Reader .pdf
Format File extension MIME type
JPEG .jpg image/jpeg
PNG .png image/png
GIF .gif image/gif
Container format File extension Video encoding Audio encoding MIME type
QuickTime .mov H.264 AAC video/QuickTime
MPEG .mp4 H.264 or AAC - video/mp4
Flash video .flv On2 VP6, Sorenson Spark MP3 video/x-flv
  • Organizing gallery files
    You can put gallery files in community folders and showcase files in the Gallery app.
  • Configuring a gallery to display files and folders
    The Gallery app allows you to showcase files of any type, such as photos, videos, and office files, on the community Highlights page. When configured, the Gallery is renamed with the folder or community name and displays thumbnail images for the files. You can have multiple galleries in a community.

Parent topic:Keeping your apps contemporary