If I create a folder in albums directroy which contains a bunch of images, zen brilliantly picks them up in as an album and gives it the same name as the directory.
However, the individual images show up in the navigation top part all with the same name - which is the name/model of the camera used to take the pic ...
Is there a way to have this default just be the file name instead ?
(Using svn 5398)
Speaking of navigation - is there some way to have a navigation tree so it is simple to jump to any part of the album website ?
Soemthing like
(+) Top-1
(+) Top-2
..
where clicking on (+) opens up a subtree ... which in turn contain same thing - each album with a )+) to descend further ...
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The nav links generally use the image title for the text. Titles are defaulted to the image name, but easily changed either by metadata in the image or by editing the data on the zenphoto back end.
There is a menu management system as part of the 1.3.0 release which might give you what you are looking for for the navigation.
(1) I am using the svn trunk updated as of version 5398 which was last night.
(2) I did a fresh install.
(3) I copied a file tree of albums into the albums directory of the install.
(4) the 'name' given to each image was not the filename of each image as I expected but rather the camera name/model presumably extracted from exif data.
(5) I'd prefer it to default to the name of the file which is at least unique in the album.
(6) I turned on the print_album_menu plugin - under options I tried with the default and with level set to 2 - in neither case did anything change on the zen album pages .. nothing at all visible (am using google-chrome on linux ... perhaps this plugin does not work when browser is linux/chrome ?)
Thanks for guidance - gene - really trying to convert from gallery !!
(6) Not all plugins are supported by all themes as written on top of the plugins tab. You may need to add the function yourself. The Zenpage theme has support for it by default. It has nothing to do with browsers.
2) I am using the default zenpage theme - where should I see the album_menu displayed ? It most def appears the same with plugin on or off ... unless I am not setting something correctly.
gene/
2) The print_album_menu should be shown in the sidebar if the plugin is activated. If you enabled the menu_manager as you are using the snv you have to disable that first.
2) I do not have menu_manager enabled - tho turning that on made no visible impact either.
I am beginning to suspect something is amiss here ...
You could execute a single SQL query to update the image titles by setting them to the filename wherever the current title is the camera make/model that's currently incorrectly there. That will fix up the 2,000 or so images in a couple of seconds, if that. Of course, you'd still have to take care of new images as they are added, and that's no fun.
Does your image editing software let you bulk-edit EXIF data? You might be able to correct your images that way also.
My image editing software is gimp.
gene/
You will understand that we won't make options for things that rarely occur. You could probably use the image_filter to make a plugin that does this for you though.
A new database should first not be necessary for a reinstall.
Gallery
Flowers ..
Impressionists ...
I dont have any sidebar at all!
"Default
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2) zenpage plugin is *not* turned on.
Plugins which are on are:
class-video v1.3.0
deprecated-functions
filter-zenphoto_seo v1.3.0
hitcounter v1.3.0
PHPMailer v1.3.0
print_album_menu v1.3
user_login-out v1.3.0
zenphoto_news v1.3.0
zenphoto_sendmail v1.3.0
gene
gene
Now it looks really different .. and much nicer too ;-)
A custom filter would be ideal, in that it would detect the bad EXIF data and correct it seamlessly without the uploader having to worry about or remember it every time they add new photos, and would also not require hacking the core files and re-applying the hack each time a new version is released.
Seems you pretty much have your head where the sun don't shine.
What I'd suggest is an option in zen to allow the default title to be either the exif data or the filename or something else maybe a counter for that album with a root specified by user ..
yeh it would be nice if all digital images had the exif data you expect .. but it doesn't ...
So feel free to write a plugin for your quite rare purpose and make it available for all users that might need it. Maybe you could also write a EXIF maker (zp-core/EXIF/makers) for it. We have really rarely reports about this, I can only think of two so far.
Discussion is healthy for making things better - or me understanding better and things staying the same - either way - its good progress!
I still think making a simple option for users to choose something other than the exif:ImageDescription field could be useful for some zen users.
They can all be changed within zen so there is no missing functionality - only convenience.
In my case, I'll write a short standalone script to modify all the exif:ImageDescription data which are bad - and just apply it as needed.
Thanks for making zen .. its pretty nice!
I have not had a chance to look at this - but I wonder if there is some way to leverage the rather large amount of work that was done by exiftool team (http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool) ?
Aside: ImageMagick is advertised as supported in 1.3.x .. is this support in the current svn ?
gene/
It would be a bad idea to make the field useage selectable. This is really a camera specific issue and should be handled either by a maker tool for the camera or a filter as we have already suggested.
If you know Perl (I don't) you could of course try to adapt something.
In order to know which field to use, the user would have to look at one of the photos, then view the EXIF data to see which field name actually contains the title.
Presumably the filter would do its magic whenever it came across an image containing the specified search string as the title, and would therefore process already-uploaded images or future images.
The option to actually update the EXIF metadata in the file, if implemented, should be optional. That does risk data corruption / loss if the user makes a mistake, whereas not updating the EXIF metadata would not have that effect. If updating the image file itself is desired, then this can already be done by any number of graphics utilities.
Just my $0.02!
`new_image` -- invoked only when an image is newly discovered (that is was not previously in the database.
`image_refresh` -- which is called during a metadata refresh
and
`image_instantiate` -- invoked whenever an image is instantiated.
I would suspect that the first two are the proper ones to use for this.
If the camera is using non-standard fields to store needed metadata then the maker script will really need to be made/modified as Zenphoto will not attempt to retireve the non-standard fields.
Also updating the metadata in the original image is not possible with the GD library. So it would be dependent on a graphics library that provides such support.