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MacDo · 22 Oct 2008, 05:56

Hello,

I do not know how to do something so I ask specialists

Imagine that I shoot concerts each evening. Monday evening, there is only one band. Tuesday evening, two bands were playing.

I create a gallery for each evening, and upload my photos in it. Now I want to enter descriptions.

Monday, there was a single band so I would like to enter the same description for each photo in the gallery (band name and concert place for instance). I do not know how to edit the description of all photos in the gallery at the same time. Modifying the description separately for each photo could be really time consuming... so setting a global description for all photos of the gallery would be fine.

Two bands were playing tuesday so I would like to select the photos of the first band and define description for all selected photos at once. Then do the same for the second band...

So my question is : how can I select a group of photos in my gallery and set the same descriptions for all selected photos at once ?

Thank you very much for your help !!

MacDo

22 Oct 2008, 23:09

There is a setting that allows you to create single "folderdescription" and display it along with all images in a single folder. Would that be appropriate?

However, if you only want to display a specific description for SOME images(not all) in a single folder, that would be more difficult. To put it bluntly, thats beyond the current capacity of imagevue, and I don't even think huge photo sharing sites like flickr even provide that option.

MacDo · 23 Oct 2008, 04:14

Ok I found folderdescription but this would be convenient only if I want to display the same description for all images in a single folder, and in ALL folders of the gallery.

As the text1, text2, text3 options are defined in config section, these parameters are global and set for all folders. Then if monday there is only one band and five bands tuesday, using folderdescription would be ok for monday but not for tuesday... So you cannot have different layouts/informations displayed for different folders. I think this is not really happy, by the way...

So that's a first reason for me to want to be able to select some images inside a given folder and to define the same title and/or description for all selected images.

I do not understand why this is so complicated since I think that we are able right now to select images with shift-click or Ctrl+A... Adding a textbox in the right panels with "set global title to selected images" and another with "set global description to selected images" would be sufficient. But I do not know the technical details inside of v2...

Now, to do this manually, II edit manually the folderdata.xml by FTP, and I copy-paste lines changing the filename only.

One more thing : I found the "folderdescription" but I did not found a "foldertitle" item... This would be really useful...

24 Oct 2008, 21:34

MacDo wrote:Ok I found folderdescription but this would be convenient only if I want to display the same description for all images in a single folder, and in ALL folders of the gallery.

As the text1, text2, text3 options are defined in config section, these parameters are global and set for all folders. Then if monday there is only one band and five bands tuesday, using folderdescription would be ok for monday but not for tuesday... So you cannot have different layouts/informations displayed for different folders. I think this is not really happy, by the way...

I am not sure if you expected anything else here ... We can't simply allow for re-arranging of all items based on every folder and every image. How would we implement that? That would be a technical nightmare, and for the same reason it's not available in any other image sharing applications.

MacDo wrote:So that's a first reason for me to want to be able to select some images inside a given folder and to define the same title and/or description for all selected images.

I do not understand why this is so complicated since I think that we are able right now to select images with shift-click or Ctrl+A... Adding a textbox in the right panels with "set global title to selected images" and another with "set global description to selected images" would be sufficient. But I do not know the technical details inside of v2...

Although it is technically possible, it is slightly complicated ... That would require adding input fields in the panels on the thumbnails page, in addition to adding the actual functions. We may look into this later ...

MacDo wrote:One more thing : I found the "folderdescription" but I did not found a "foldertitle" item... This would be really useful...

Do yo mean in the folderdata.xml files? There is only DESCRIPTION and TITLE save under the <folder> node:

<folder title="pictures 1" description="description here"> ...

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