Hello.

I use Zenphoto for my blogsite and I'm enjoy it.

I would like to know if it's possible to mix album normal with a dynamic.
I explain.
Some photo on my blog are in an album normal (like "animals" for exemple). They are nowhere else.
But I have some photo with tag "animals" and I would like to place all the photos in the same album.
How to do ?

Thanks for your help ans excuse me for my English :-(

Pour les Français :
J'ai des photos qui sont dans un album fixe (ex : animaux) et j'aimerai ajouter des photos qui ont le tag "animaux" (et qui sont dans d'autres albums) dans cet album fixe. En fait, j'aimerai mélanger un album normal et un album dynamique.
Comment puis-je faire ?

Merci de votre aide.

Anything you can "find" in a search can be turned into a dynamic album. Simply do the search you want and in the admin toolbox there will be a link to create the album.

So from your description you should do a search on `animals` and then make a dynamic album from the result.

Thanks for your answer but I have no problem to make a dynamic album

Imagine :
- I have a photo with a tag "animals" ;
- to share it I must place it in a album but I have only a dynamic album call "animals" with all photos have tag "animals" ;

how can I share a photo without place it in a album normal but directly in a dynamic album ?

You cannot have an image that is not stored in an [real] album--as you probably have figured out there is no place to put it. I think we did mention that dynamic albums are simply the result of a search. Nothing else.

Upon further consideration, I think one of us is confused.

From your description:

You have some images you would like associated with an album named "animals" and no other album. Is that correct? Then the straight forward approach is to simply put them into a normal album named "animals" no need at all for a dynamic album.

Dynamic albums are for the purpose of allowing images to show up in more than one location (album). When there is only one location dynamic albums are redundant.

Thank you for your different answers.

My situation :
- photo n°1 : only in the album call "Animals".
- photo n°2 : in another album (ex : travels) + tag "animals" but I don't want to duplicate this photo.

My question : is it possible to have photo n°1 and photo n°2 in the same album "animals" without copy photo n°2 ?
I thought it was possible with a code. You mean it's not possible.

Thank you for your help.

Do you mean "can this physical image file be two places at once?" I believe that defies the laws of physics. As well, there is no such thing as a hybrid album. Albums are based either on the contents of a folder or the result of a search.

I think you need to step back and assimilate what you have been told, which is physical image files reside in normal albums. Dynamic albums are the content of an [arbitrary] search.

The third element in this equation is that most operating systems provide a facility called `symlinks` whereby you can make a pointer in one folder to a file in another. Perhaps this is what you need.

Thank you very much for your answers.

I organized my albums differently to obtain the best deal.

Thank you for your help.