How to put a album in multiple categories ?

[Hein Traag]

I'm going to setup a picture gallery for the national scouting association in the near future.
It's going to contain numerous albums from various camps and events etc.. lots and lots of pictures.
The gallery will be divided in age groups. From the young to the old. And in those categories will be placed the categories/albums of the camps/events.
Some camps and events are for more then 1 age group so i need to be able to have a album appear in more then 1 category.

Now i tried placing a set of pictures  into two different albums in two different categories using the batch upload option but got DP messages, which is logical because once a picture has been added to a album it already exists in the database.

So, the real question is how to i add a set of pictures from a camp into 1 album and have that album appear into 2 categories ?

I feel a lack of caffeine in my system so the possibility exists that i might have searched using the wrong keywords 

[Casper]

you just need to wait for version 1.4 which has the ability for pics to be displayed in several albums.
You would have to create the album itself in each category, and give it the required keyword.  Then upload the pics into the main album, giving each pic the same keyword.  They will then display in each album that uses that keyword.

[Hein Traag]

Ah k so 1.4 uses keywords to add pictures into multiple albums. Sounds like a good option.
Haven't installed 1.4 yet.. will do asap.

But would it be doable to create a option on the batch upload page which allows a admin to choose into which albums the pictures should be inserted.
Thinking like a true non-coder that sounds logical.. being able to select 1 or 2 or more albums and then have the batch add proces insert the pics into
the chose albums. Or is this something which is more complex to code then the keyword option ?

[Casper]

A lot more complex.  You will have to just select the main album they are to appear in, then once uploaded, edit them to show the keywords.  Each pic can have many keywords, so they can be shown in many albums.  But each album can only have one keyword.

So your pics from one event, will go into the main album for that event.  But the pics that show the younger group will also be shown in their category, the pics that show the older group into theirs, those that show the older group canoeing will go into the older groups album and the canoeing album, etc, etc.

This can be as simple or as complex as you want.

[Hein Traag]

Okay thanks for the answer Casper.

Simple will do nicely