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cpg1.6 miscellaneous / Re: Can admin assign pid?

Last post by treehstn - August 16, 2026, 08:56:46 PM

Wow!!  Thank you!

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cpg1.6 miscellaneous / Re: Can admin assign pid?

Last post by ron4mac - August 16, 2026, 05:17:18 PM

I've added a plugin to the trove of plugins that might help you with your journey. I added it with all the other plugins as it might have benefit to someone else at some time.

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cpg1.6 plugin contributions / Reference IDs for uploaded fil...

Last post by ron4mac - August 16, 2026, 05:07:02 PM

This plugin adds a reference id field to the database pictures table. When files are uploaded, the field will automatically be set to the configured prefix and the gallery id of the file. Different prefixes can be configured for each user group. Thumbnail display will include the reference_id as a copy-to-clipboard link. The link will be to the image as displayed by the gallery.

Included with the plugin is a reference_id admin tool that can be used to bulk-set a reference ID for pre-existing files as selected in the admin tools.

Update: v1.0.5 small issue correction

#4

cpg1.6 miscellaneous / Re: Can admin assign pid?

Last post by phill104 - August 14, 2026, 11:06:53 PM

I wonder if CPMFetch would do what you require - https://coppermine-gallery.com/forum/index.php/topic,80810.0.html

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cpg1.6 miscellaneous / Re: Can admin assign pid?

Last post by treehstn - August 14, 2026, 09:03:42 PM

Yes, and some of the galleries are going on different domains so having separate galleries makes sense.  I'm thinking of each photo as the same as specimens in a museum.  Being able to easily find specific ones is going to be important. I'll be writing several books that will have some of the photos in them and want to put the image number in the caption so it can be found easily.  I don't have a lot of confidence in my users (family) changing all of their image names on their computers to what the system will assign so if the file name in coppermine includes their name by default and then adds the prefix I think that will work for everyone.

Yes, other software will potentially be accessing the gallery databases and links may be used in other documents also. 

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cpg1.6 miscellaneous / Re: Can admin assign pid?

Last post by ron4mac - August 14, 2026, 04:30:09 PM

I can see why you might want more than one gallery. And I can see why you might want a reference id attached to each uploaded item. What is not clear to me is how that reference id would be used external to the galleries. Will there be other software that accesses the databases of all the galleries? If not, will just links to gallery items be used in other documents?

#7

cpg1.6 miscellaneous / Re: Can admin assign pid?

Last post by treehstn - August 13, 2026, 09:20:33 PM

I'm working on designing a project that really is going to be my life's work.  I'm a genealogist who is transforming into a family archivist.  Instead of using just a family tree program as I have for the last 20 years or so, I'm going to be adding databases of information, documents, books, articles, indexes of thousands of records, etc. One of the databases is Coppermine which will manage all of the scans of photos and documents.  I'm not going to be the only person adding to Coppermine.  My whole family will be able to add images. The unique identifier has to be just that in order for the images to be easily id'd in whatever other part of the system it might be referred to.  It needs to be something that never changes and is not too cumbersome for an average user of the system to be able to work with.

To give you an idea of the scope of the project, my mother's research is completely on paper. All notes and photo copies are hard copy.  I have about 50 large plastic tubs of her research that needs to be organized and scanned which a rough estimate of size is about 115 cubic feet of papers.  My research is almost completely on the computer and is of a similar scope.  Then add in a couple of dozen family members that will be contributing their data and images.

So you can get an idea of why this single number is going to be very important and I have to get it right the first time around.  I don't want to jump the gun and certainly don't want anyone spending time building anything until I'm sure of what it needs to be beforehand.

Now that I've thought about it for a bit I think that I'm getting more hung up on how to format the actual prefix than I am on what the plugin requirements might be. 

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cpg1.6 miscellaneous / Re: Can admin assign pid?

Last post by ron4mac - August 13, 2026, 03:04:55 PM

Maybe if you try to articulate, with detail, the big picture of what you are trying to accomplish, some of us may have some good suggestions as to how that could be best achieved.

#9

cpg1.6 miscellaneous / Re: Can admin assign pid?

Last post by treehstn - August 12, 2026, 07:39:13 PM

If that method (prefix on the filename) will work for what you are tying to do, I will build a suitable plugin that you will be able to use. Let me know .. and then give me a few days to put it together.

I'm going to need a couple of days at most for me to work through if this will work.  That is just fantastic that you'd be willing to do this!  I am no web programmer for sure and would just be fumbling through trying to do it on my own.  I really appreciate it!  I'll let you know as soon as I'm sure it will work for what I'm doing.

Thank you!!

#10

cpg1.6 miscellaneous / Re: Can admin assign pid?

Last post by ron4mac - August 12, 2026, 03:28:40 PM

If that method (prefix on the filename) will work for what you are tying to do, I will build a suitable plugin that you will be able to use. Let me know .. and then give me a few days to put it together.