I have simple image gallery pro working correctly in a front-end K2 article.

I would like to also use it to present the images for editing a single record in the Administrative back end of the site.  However, when I paste the code in, all I get is {gallery}client2{gallery}.

Is it possible that it will not work in the back end?
Also, is there some way that I could calculate the folder name in PHP and pass that value so that the same editing code will work for multiple profiles?

Thanks.

Maybe because you should write
{gallery}client2{/gallery}
instead of
{gallery}client2{gallery}

Doh!
Alas, even correcting for the missing slash did not solve the problem.

I know that the path and folder are correct because
$picturepath = "../images/stories/".$this->row->farmphotofolder."/";

Plus the $file names from readdir

AND  echo "<img src=". $picturepath.$file." width = $pictureWidth alt=$file  />"." ";

yields a series of pictures.

However, {gallery}<?php echo $this->row->farmphotofolder; ?>{/gallery}
yields {gallery}client_images8{/gallery}

Notice that the code above that yielded pictures references the folder "images/stories" one folder up. I tried changing that reference in the php code and got
{gallery}../client_images8{/gallery}.

I infer from your first response that when we get things configured properly that there is nothing inherent in putting SIG in a component that would keep it from firing.

Would having JHTML::_('behavior.mootools');
JHTML::_('behavior.calendar');
$editor =& JFactory::getEditor();
jimport('joomla.html.html');

trigger anything that would keep SIG from firing?
Would it help if I pasted the SIG javascript directly into the component?

Thanks for the help.