Dynamic album thumbnail?

kocho

Hi all,

I hope I haven't missed this somewhere on the forum or user guide, but is it possible to set a specific thumbnail image for an .alb / dynamic album?

I have a folder and within that, 6 or 7 dynamic albums. I can't work out how to give each of those dynamic albums a specific thumbnail (not based on last viewed, most viewed, etc).

Any ideas?

fretzl

As with all albums you can set the thumbnail manually on the backend. On your album page there's a "Thumbnail" dropdown where you can choose the thumbnail.
(admin -> albums -> parent album -> dynamic album -> locate the "Thumbnail" dropdown)

kocho

The options are only:

first alphabetically
most recent
most viewed
oldest
random

Aren't they?

If that's the case, then I cant select a specific thumbnail (amazingthumbnail.jpg for example) to be the thumbnail for the dynamic album.

fretzl

Below those options, in the same dropdown, you should see all filenames present in the album.

kocho

Thanks fretzl for getting back to me.

Just to confirm, what I have is:

album
-- dynamic album
-- dynamic album
-- dynamic album

For each of those dynamic albums (which obviously contain albums inside each of those), I want a thumbnail to be specified.

In the drop down for each of those dynamic albums, I only see:
first alphabetically
most recent
most viewed
oldest
random

but no subsequent filenames of images within its folder/s.

I had a look, and this goes for any .alb folder in my installation.

acrylian

It really should look like this:
http://www.zenphoto.org/test/dynalbum-thumbselector.jpg.html

If it doesn't you should review your error logs.

sbillard

If there are no images in the root dynamic album you will not get the list of images [sic]. To use an image from a subalbum (or any other image) as a thumbnail you will need to edit your dynamic album file. Add the line `THUMB=/album/image.jpg` to the `.alb` file.

You may need to refresh the database if the thumbnail does not initially show up.