Photo Uploading and Editing -- small request

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Permalink Reply by Steve"Hog"Hanner on April 19, 2011 at 16:08

Jim, ning only provides the sorts you mention. I am not aware of any planned, new sorts in the pipeline but we can note your request to the ning developers.

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Permalink Reply by Jan Carter on April 19, 2011 at 16:41

There you go Jim, Steve is on it already.  I will say anytime we have asked for a feature if it is available these gentlemen have been right there to get it for us.  Thanks for checking Steve

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Permalink Reply by J.J. Smith III on April 19, 2011 at 17:18

Jim,

There is a method that you can use, until there is another alternative.

If your photos are in an "Album",  click on the "Options" button and then on "Edit", on the drop down.

Your photos can then be moved within the album, in whic order yoy prefer them.

Keep in mind that this will only work in an album, and not on your photos as a group.

 

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Permalink Reply by D ale on April 19, 2011 at 21:25

Jim .. JJ's suggestions are as good an organizational scheme as NING allows w/ pics .. we've been up against this before .. with no easier answer or method available @ the moment.

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Permalink Reply by Jim Child on April 20, 2011 at 8:50

J.J. Smith III said:

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Your photos can then be moved within the album, in whic order yoy prefer them.

Keep in mind that this will only work in an album, and not on your photos as a group.

 

Hey JJ -- thanks for that suggestion. I had not realized that while I was adding or removing photos from an album I could also be re-ordering the photos in the album.

Unfortunately in the "Album Edit" view you are not shown the photos' titles so it's sort of like shooting ducks in a barrel ...blindfolded. :-(

 

To expand on where I'm going: My plan is to re-title all my photos like this "100158 - Case 62146RL 2001" -- the leading number ("100158") is my database ID number for the knife. With that number I can go to my records and see everything I know about that knife: date acquired, price, tang stamp details, handle description, etc. With the rest of the photo title I'm hoping to immediately convey some basic information about the knife to the viewer. BTW, that "viewer" includes ME -- I'd like to be able to differentiate between pictured knives without having to go back to the database at every step.

 

Because the "Album View" , like in "Album Edit", does not show the photos' titles I will be doing all my serious  photo viewing in the "My Photos" view.  It's a little ponderous but I can go through "My Photos", page by page, selecting and copying the knives. When I paste what's copied into a text editor I get:

100158 - Case 62146RL 2001
 
100157
 
100155

....etc

Sidebar Note: It's funny, the resulting "paste" is different depending on whether I'm in Firefox or Internet Explorer. I drag-select and copy a page-worth of photos and titles. What's copied to the Window clipboard when in FF is each photo's title TWICE. When I'm browsing in IE the photo titles appear in the Clipboard just once.  

 

In the text editor I am then able to do a simple line sort arranging all the knives in order as per my database ID numbers. Once they're in order it's easier for me to relate back to the database -- doing things as simple as knowing which knives are "missing" from my iKC gallery (e.g. the 10056 photo in my "copy" above) or what was the last photo I've added.

 

I guess it's a little unfair of me to be wanting my iKC photo gallery to behave like Flickr or PhotoBucket. It's just that the NING software is so broad and comfortable that it's a little startling when I run up against something it won't do.

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Permalink Reply by D ale on April 20, 2011 at 9:02

Jim .. once you've performed the pic sorting within the album itself .. albums may then be sorted alphabetically.

 

Perhaps .. set up 1st album w/ pics 100100 ~ 100125 ... 2cnd album with pics 100126 ~ 100150 ... etc.

 

I've personaly been down this (searchable database) road a # of times. JJ & I even resorted to going off site to create an easily organizable searchable database at one time. Ning simply has some limitations in this area.

 

HOWEVER .. I'd love to have that last stmt proven incorrect. If you do get anywhere with this issue .. PLEASE .. let me know !!!

 

Thanks .. :D ale

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Permalink Reply by J.J. Smith III on April 20, 2011 at 9:28

The title will show up if you hover the curser over the thumbnail...

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Permalink Reply by Jim Child on April 20, 2011 at 10:04

J.J. Smith III said:

The title will show up if you hover the curser over the thumbnail...

J.J.: It will? What browser are you using? I'm not seeing anything when hovering over the thumbnails in my album -- either in Firefox, an FF tab rendered by IE or even after opening a full version of IE.

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Permalink Reply by J.J. Smith III on April 20, 2011 at 15:04

Using IE. 

Title shows up when the album is in "Edit" mode.  (At least it does for me...)

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Permalink Reply by Jan Carter on April 20, 2011 at 17:36

Thanks for the info guys, if I ever get a chance to put more photos on here this will be extrememly helpful.

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Permalink Reply by Jim Child on April 21, 2011 at 6:13

Okay J.J.!

In IE: In the "Album Edit" mode I am seeing the popup photo title names as you've pictured above.

 

Interesting sidenote: For just a minute  (maybe it was the first time I went into iKC after re-booting the PC?), in Firefox, the Album Edit function was working = the Existing Album Box and the "Your Pictures" boxes were both properky populated with all my photos' thumbnails.

 

Something else I've noticed is that in Album Edit in IE the Existing Album Box appears below the "Your Pictures" box while in FF the Existing Album Box is on the same level as, and to the right of, the "Your Pictures" box. It looks more at home arranged right under the "Your Album" header and " see follwoing screenshot:

 

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Permalink Reply by J.J. Smith III on April 21, 2011 at 14:22

I don't know about Firefox, but for some reason it changed.  Origionally the boxes were side by side.  Not sure if the browsers have anything to do with it or not.  I've always used IE.

I can say that it's more difficult with the over/under format.

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