Decision of album names in similar sub categories

[kappe]

Hello to all

Since we start to manage our slide library with coppermine we got this problem.

As in real life we made several sub categories with the same name under several categories.
Each sub category includes the album "Histologie" and "Makroskopie".

When we try to upload an new slide we can't decide between all these albums because all of them are summarized unter one sub category.
Unfortunately the leading category is ingnored in this list

Maybe someone have some hints?

Thanks a lot!
Kappe

[Hein Traag]

See if this mod does the trick for you:
http://forum.coppermine-gallery.net/index.php/topic,57167.0.html

[kappe]

I tried this mod but it doesn't work for me.

The order of the album list changed but nothing more


Kappe

[Hein Traag]

But if you are the admin then i assume you are uploading the pics through ftp and then adding them to the album using batch add. This way you do see the categories also.

Best method would be like this:

In FTP create folders with the names of the categories. Under these 'category' folders create new folders which represent the albums within the categories.
Upload pictures into the correct album folders.
Add the pictures to the corresponding albums through batch add.

This way you keep your category/album structure the same as your folder structure on FTP. Which makes it easier when dealing with large amounts of pictures.

[kappe]

Hello Hein,

we chose Coppermine because of it's ability to decide which user can do which functions.
Therefore we won't give everybody admin rights and access like FTP.
Beside this, the people who should upload the pics aren't that experienced with FTP etc.

I read in an other thread of a user with a taxonomic database who got the same problem.
Many sub categories with the same name and without any differentiation within the album list.

I can't belive, that Coppermine only displays the last category above an album within the album list...

Regards
Kappe

[Hein Traag]

Okay i get it. You could have mentioned this was related to normal users uploading the pics instead of you as the admin.

I'm pretty sure there is a thread on the forum which can give the correct answer, i have seen it before but can't locatie it now.

Maybe a more code savvy contributor or dev member can lend a hand..

[Joachim Müller]

I can see the problem, but similarly to Hein I can't remember the right thread that contains the hack that would be the cure for your issues. As categories can be nested indefinitely in coppermine, the dropdown field appeared limited. The creators had to decide between two things: people using extermely long category/album names (imagine an album name like "Trip with Jack and Jill to the amazon, February 2006" within a category named "John's travels to the abroad from 1998 to 2008" that resides in the parent category "John Doe's personal stuff") versus a setup where a huge number of nested categories exists whith the names being comparatively short. The creator of the dropdown list code (by the name "Frogfoot" afaik) considered the first setup to be more likely for the majority of Coppermine-driven galleries, as the intended audience is not (and never has been) scientific use (used by taxonomy-related sites or similar). What you're trying to do is not the "usual" way Coppermine works and was intended for, so you'll probably have to hack it to a certain extent to make it work for you.
As a workaround, you might want to name your stuff redundantly, which results in less clean breadcrumb trails, but nicer dropdown fields.