I'm very happy with smart albums and the IPTC tag tweak.  So I tag locally with digikam, then upload the files and each file shows up in one more more smart albums based on date filters and tag filters.

Since I have more than one source of photos (2 cell phones, one point in shoot, and one SLR) in the household I don't find filtering by upload date very useful (since it's often multiple days for a single event).  However the creation date (the date the photo was taken) is quite useful so I wrote a small patch.

So basically my workflow is grab random camera, copy files to a directory, run a small script to move files into <dir>/year/monday/day/<original name>, tag them with digikam, and them upload to piwigo where they end up in albums based on the day I took the picture and the tags.  Then run a rsync based backup.

So I propose:
* Either adding or replacing the existing "added before/after/on"
  filter with one that filters on creation date.
* Using the same field name as displayed in the metadata for a picture
  which would be either "Created on" or "Posted on"

I wrote a small patch to change SmartAlbum's default behavior of date filtering by date_available/Post on to date_creation/Created on.  The patch works for me, it doesn't include a French translation though.

Small patch attached.

Hrm, I don't see a sign of the attachment, I posted it at this URL as well:
http://broadley.org/bill/smartalbums-created-on.patch

Last edited by sbyke (2011-06-15 15:36:34)

Ah, well I can confirm that by default piwigo and smart albums filter by the "Posted on" date that shows below an image in the picture.php view.  Which I believe (at least with my camera) is the date_available field in the database.

With my patch that changes to the "Created on" data which maps to the date_creation field.  I've been testing with 275 recent photos and the database has a date entry for both for each photo.

Sounds like something is stripping your EXIF data, or maybe your EXIF tool doesn't understand your raw photos.  Are you by chance doing a raw -> JPG conversion without carrying over the EXIF data?

I have to say I'd be lost without the Created on field.  No way could I figure out which of N trips a particular photo is from.  A recent example included 4 cameras that went on 2 trips 2 weeks apart to the same national park.

Is there a way to create a smart album based upon a variable... more specifically created on = Today() or uploaded on = today() ??

thx.. Matthew

Thanks for this cool plugin!

Two issues I'm running into with smart albums based on star ratings:

1. Is there a way to have it filter for the actual rating of an image and not the piwigo averaged rating?
I tried to create a 5 star, 4 star etc. For the 4 star album I set the rating to greater than 3 & less than 5 thinking that would give me all images rated to 4 stars. Instead I got many images rated 3 stars because the piwigo averaged the 3 star rated images to 3.25 which was indeed greater than 3.

2. Is there a way to make the albums auto update?
If I am looking at the 4 star album and change an image to a 5 star rating, the image does not show up in the 5 star smart album, I have to manually refresh it in the admin panel.