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# Gallery Settings

This is where you determine how you use the Voting Gallery mechanism.

From the **Gallery content** dropdown, your options are:

* **I want to upload my own content:** This option lets you use the Voting Gallery as a single experience to display and gauge opinion on media you upload yourself.
* **Fetch content from existing app:** This is where you connect your Voting Gallery to an existing Media Contest.
* **I want to do both:** This app is extremely versatile, so if your campaign calls for it, this lets you combine the 2 options.

For Media #1, you'll select your media file (image, video, or audio) then fill in the name and description.

This option allows you to connect a Voting Gallery to a Media Contest you've already created — you can directly retrieve the content shared by participants from a Photo Contest or Video Contest that's either already online, or has already run, and invite people to vote for the winners.

| Several media competitions can be linked to a single gallery to retrieve even more content.

Once you've chosen this option, select the app you want from the drop-down menu.
You can then define the **Name display** and the **Gallery type** from the dropdown menus to customise the app's appearance.

|| Please note, the “Votes received” field in the connected Media Contest will update with the votes a media file is receiving from users. 

### Gallery type 

Determines how media is laid out for end users. There are 3 options:

* **Feed:** Content is displayed in a single vertical column.
* **Slider:** Content is displayed horizontally, allowing users to swipe or scroll sideways through entries.
* **Masonry:** Content is displayed in a multi-column grid with varying tile heights, adapting to each media file's natural dimensions for a more dynamic, Pinterest-style layout.

Additionally, you have options you can enable to:

* **Do not display the description:** Stops any captions included appearing on your Voting Gallery.
* **Do not display the date:** Hides the upload date.
* **Do not display the sorting:** Users can sort the Voting Gallery when they participate in various ways. Disabling this takes away this option for end users.
* **Do not display the categories:** This hides the categories from the user.
* **Do not display the search bar:** The Voting Gallery includes a search bar that allows end users to find specific entries by name, description, or other GDPR-compliant fields from the upload form. This is particularly useful for large galleries with many submissions. The search bar is displayed by default — enable this option to hide it from end users.