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Edit dynamic subalbum

thany Member
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How to edit the criteria for a dynamic subalbum?

There seems no way to do this, other than to recreate it, which is most undesirable.

There is, however, a cryptic url-like string at the bottom of dynamic subalbum settings, but it's not editable. Perhaps this is what contains the criteria, and perhaps a quick fix is to make that thing editable?

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  • acrylian Administrator, Developer
    The only way is to edit the dynamic album file manually currently. That cryptic url like string is indeed the criteria and contained within the file. Any dynamic album is a file name `.alb` within the `albums` folder. The string is actually the search query parameters since a dynamic album is a "saved search".

    In case I misunderstood: You cannot edit an album within a dynamic album since it does not "have" that album. You would have to edit the physical album instead.
  • thany Member
    Oh I see, it's a file. A physical, real, actual, file. How odd.

    Anyway, yes, that will work... -ish.
    Inconvenient, but possible at least.

    On a sidenote, wouldn't be a good idea to improve the file format "a little"? Make it a nice JSON format? Especially the "CONSTRAINTS" field is... still cryptic.

    It would help if there's some discrete documentation on this file.
  • acrylian Administrator, Developer
    Well, albums are normally physical and therefore dynamic albums are files.

    We are open to improvements and there are plans to make this actual backend editable. Changing the format will cause extra compatibility work since it otherwise will naturally break a lot of installations. Since this actually works it has simply no priority and for sure not for 1.4.x. Time is an issue and we need to be picky what we work on at all.

    The constraints field is actually just telling the search within what itmes it should search. That mirrors the search options and those you can set creating such an album.
  • thany Member
    "Well, albums are normally physical and therefore dynamic albums are files."

    Therefore? Okay, if you say so...? I would guess at dynamic albums being not physical at all, because physical files are normally images, not albums... But okay.

    Just keep in mind that it's going to need work at some point. I'm sure I'm not the only one confused by this.
  • acrylian Administrator, Developer
    We don't want to nitpick, do we? Albums are physical folders with content. So it works together dynamic albums are also physical.

    Well, you are so far the first to say he is confused ;-)
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