Customization Assistance

barmanpoet

I need a photo album tool to document property (house) inspections several times a year. I feel like ZenPhoto is the best tool available, but need a few additional tweaks. I need to record a few additional fields per album, such as address, date, inspector's name, and type of inspection. Any suggestion as to the best way to implement something like this?

acrylian

Several possibilites but all will require coding and none is easy if you are not a coder.

1) Use this "unsupported" plugin as a base to "fake split" (serialization) thee existing custom field into several fields:
https://github.com/zenphoto/Unsupported/tree/master/plugins/filter-custom_data

It can also be adapted to use the general table for extra fields called `plugin_storage`.

2) Look at the included userAddressFields plugin. It uses a class named fieldExtender that can be used to add new fields to the database tables of images or albums. You then would have to create a plugin using filters to use these fields.

Note: The plugin on 2) and way it works wa done by a former team member. I favored another way to do this using `plugin_storage`, so we probably will not use this for long.

age