Link images to each other for searching

[treehstn]

1. Is it possible to link images to each other?  I'm building a gallery of design patents.  Almost every patent will have 2 or more images.  There will be a lot of data entered for the file information on each patent.  But I'd like to enter all that data only on the first image.  People are going to search using words in file information fields.  If I enter the data only on the first image in the set then the other images won't come up in the search results. 

2.  Is there somewhere I can change the default so on the search page every box is checked to search all fields?

Thank you!

[Hanna.]

I was just going to open a thread on this same exact question. I got albums with 500+ images and I'd love to be able to tag them all with same keywords.

Perhaps there is a way to work this like a magazine browsing, for example select/type in images 01-150 and hit the same keywords for those and then do the same but select another range of images.

[Αndré]

1. Is it possible to link images to each other?  I'm building a gallery of design patents.  Almost every patent will have 2 or more images.  There will be a lot of data entered for the file information on each patent.  But I'd like to enter all that data only on the first image.  People are going to search using words in file information fields.  If I enter the data only on the first image in the set then the other images won't come up in the search results. 

Does this fit your needs? https://forum.coppermine-gallery.net/index.php/topic,70360.0.html

2.  Is there somewhere I can change the default so on the search page every box is checked to search all fields?

Open search.php and add

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checked="checked"
to all checkboxes that should be checked.

Quick and dirty: search for all occurrences of

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<input type="checkbox"
and replace them with

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<input type="checkbox" checked="checked"

[ron4mac]

I was just going to open a thread on this same exact question. I got albums with 500+ images and I'd love to be able to tag them all with same keywords.

With CPG1.6.x you can bulk set keywords with one of the admin tools.

[ron4mac]

But I'd like to enter all that data only on the first image.  People are going to search using words in file information fields.  If I enter the data only on the first image in the set then the other images won't come up in the search results. 
Thank you!

You can set the HTML5 uploader to be able to upload a group of images all with the same keyword/user fields.