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Hi there,

I've purchased a V3 license today as I want to start getting rid of Flash (more and more users are complaining about this). I've spent some hours today to get a feeling what is possible with X3 and think in major things I know how to do it.

Some things are more complicated compared to V2 (like setting a preview image which was a simple click on the image in V2), but that's not a showstopper.

But now I have a complete show stopper for the transition, it seems I'm too stupid to set the sorting in the galleries to sort the images by date and time.

My wife and I are often taking photos of the same events in parallel. Before we sync the clocks of our cameras so we get our selected pictures in the same timeline and in the right timely order in the gallery. That works quite good with "sort by date" in V2.

But in V3 I see just "Ascending", "Descending" and "Shuffle" in the page settings for the gallery - I do not see the item what should be the sorting criteria. In my case "date" (ideally the EXIF date, but if it would be the file date that's a thing I can bulk create from the EXIF of the files).

I've seen that manually sorting of images is a thing for the next few weeks - but how do I set the sorting to the recording date/time?

Thanks for your help
Marco

Hi Karl,

OK - thank you for the info. I did not finally understand that this is currently not implemented but I highly appreciate that this is your next task.

I understand from the technical background - but X2 did this the same way and the speed was fine. I need to 100% rely on sorting by (EXIF) date and it'll not be possible for me to change the filenames of 100's existing X2 photos to achieve the sorting, so I'll wait for this to be ready.

BTW: I've seen that I could use a MySQL in X3 - so I guess you recommend to do this?

Last question for now: Where do I create additional admin users?

Hi Karl,

OK ... so there's the solution for my multiple users. But I ran into the next problem

I have switched from local authentication to database support ... OK, it told me that I'm logged out but how can I log in again? My created admin login data is not working and in phpmyadmin it shows the database empty.

I guess I need again help ... I'm locked out

OK, got it - I found the solution in the forum, running the install again.

Cool, thanks Karl!

Is this EXIF date?

Awesome!!! Can't wait for it, great work!