Is there any way to select more than 1 image when doing a manual reorder. It would be advantageous if you could select a group of (say 10-15-20 images) and move them as a group.
I need to manually reorder thousands of photos. Trying to figure a system. These photos are already manually ordered in another gallery system, that is not compatible.
Also wondering if I could write the current sequence to an IPTC (meta data) field and then set Piwigo to order by that.
Gotta be a way to do this.
Last edited by tplowe56 (2012-08-24 11:37:11)
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Can I create a custom order in the config file that sets the order using a non standard field?
Modifying the code below.
// +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ // | misc | // +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ // order_by_custom and order_by_inside_category_custom : for non common pattern // you can define special ORDER configuration // // $conf['order_by_custom'] = ' ORDER BY date_available DESC, file ASC, id ASC'; // order_by_inside_category : inside a category, images can also be ordered // by rank. A manually defined rank on each image for the category. // // $conf['order_by_inside_category_custom'] = $conf['order_by_custom'];
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tplowe56 wrote:
Is there any way to select more than 1 image when doing a manual reorder. It would be advantageous if you could select a group of (say 10-15-20 images) and move them as a group
This is planned but not possible yet
Can I create a custom order in the config file that sets the order using a non standard field?
I think you can, I say try it, but some SQL errors can occur with some plugins
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I'm running out of options.
I have around 10,000 photos, in a good folder structure , but within the folders they are sorted manually by another program. That program keeps the sort order in it's own proprietary database (which can be exported as a text file). This is an older generation gallery which does not uses SQL, it's HTML based.
How can I transfer the sort order to Piwigo. I could rename a every file adding the sort order to the beginning of the origional file name, but I wouldn't want that to show in the final gallery in Piwigo.
Manually sorting them 1 x 1 is a monumental task.
They are sequence within groups having distinct file names, but the sequence number is at the end of the file name.
Current Program: http://www.digitaldutch.com/arles/
Last edited by tplowe56 (2012-08-24 02:50:51)
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you can certainly write a little program which fills Piwigo database (a custom field piwigo_images.arles_order or a little more complicated the core field piwigo_image_category.rank)
from the datas of your text file
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You might try to rename in order to put that number sequence at the start and not the end, then you use the order by filename
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flop25 wrote:
You might try to rename in order to put that number sequence at the start and not the end, then you use the order by filename
I could copy the current file name to the IPTC description field, then rename all photos with a sequence at beginning of the file name so I could order by file name. Can I then program Piwigo to show the IPTC description field as the Photo Name?
I also can copy the current sort order to an IPTC field, and then set Piwigo to sort by that IPTC field. That sound easiest. If I can figure out how to set code in Piwigo. I am not experienced at writing PHP code.
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tplowe56 wrote:
Is there any way to select more than 1 image when doing a manual reorder. It would be advantageous if you could select a group of (say 10-15-20 images) and move them as a group.
I need to manually reorder thousands of photos. Trying to figure a system. These photos are already manually ordered in another gallery system, that is not compatible.
Also wondering if I could write the current sequence to an IPTC (meta data) field and then set Piwigo to order by that.
Gotta be a way to do this.
To select more than Image will be Great !
This would compliment that
Very nice App.