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#1 2020-05-26 12:28:31
- dummer-esel
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- 2017-01-25
- 73
Search/find only albums, not photos?
Hello/Hi/Greetings,
sorry if this question was answered before, I didn't find any matches.
I'd like my users to search my gallery, but the results should not be photos but only links to the albums/subalbums.
Is there any way to to this?
The reason is that my (>3000) photos are not tagged, but put in a hierarchy of categories (like year > country > place). So if they search for "place" I'd like them to find the album/category and not single photos.
Piwigo version: newest stable
PHP version: 7.2
MySQL version: MySQL
Piwigo URL: internal
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#2 2020-05-26 20:31:03
- executive
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- 2017-08-16
- 1236
Re: Search/find only albums, not photos?
Album names ARE searched, but I don't know of any way to exclude photo results.
However, if I drop down the album list in my menu, then I can use the browser find function.
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#3 2020-05-29 10:11:38
- dummer-esel
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- 2017-01-25
- 73
Re: Search/find only albums, not photos?
executive wrote:
Album names ARE searched, but I don't know of any way to exclude photo results.
Where can I find the SQL query where the results are generated?
Maybe it just needs a small tweak?
This would really improve usability for my users.
Last edited by dummer-esel (2020-05-29 14:05:44)
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#4 2021-06-14 22:27:32
- theonlyone
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- 2021-06-14
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Re: Search/find only albums, not photos?
dummer-esel wrote:
Hello/Hi/Greetings,
sorry if this question was answered before, I didn't find any matches.
I'd like my users to search my gallery, but the results should not be photos but only links to the albums/subalbums.
Is there any way to to this?
The reason is that my (>3000) photos are not tagged, but put in a hierarchy of categories (like year > country > place). So if they search for "place" I'd like them to find the album/category and not single photos.
Piwigo version: newest stable
PHP version: 7.2
MySQL version: MySQL
Piwigo URL: internal
I've been looking for a similar feature or plugin. 10's of thousands of photos tagged, but organized in album hierarchy. If I search for a keyword like "travel", it will pull up thousands of travel photos, but I want a way to see the albums that contain photos with that tag.
I've been using the album drop-down in the menu mentioned above, but it would be much more convenient to browse the album cover for ease of identifying albums.
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