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vboa68 · 11 Mar 2016, 10:45

Hi Karl

I have 5 questions for you:

1. How to avoid the complete path visibility on the web address field in a browser.
I'd like only to show www.vbf2009.com instead of www.vbf2009.com/x3/info... or www.vbf2009.com/x3/contact

2. What about exif-IPTC meta data? How can I show them in popup (maybe) as in X2?

3. How (and where) can I put an href tag in order to point to an item menu?
Example: in my contact page , I'd like to create a link on "disclaimer" word which opens the menu Disclaimer

4. In my contact page, on my email address, how can I open directly an email client?

5. I don't understand why in my portfolio, all images seems to be "duplicated" even if I don't have duplicates in my gallery folder. Do you know why? any suggestion?

thx

vincenzo

11 Mar 2016, 11:08

vboa68 wrote:1. How to avoid the complete path visibility on the web address field in a browser.
I'd like only to show http://www.vbf2009.com instead of http://www.vbf2009.com/x3/info... or http://www.vbf2009.com/x3/contact

- First of all, if you have uploaded X3 into a /x3/ folder, you would need to move it down to your root.
- Next, the url segment is not the PATH. For example /contact/ is NOT a path ... The path, which is hidden to the visitor, is gonna be something like this: /content/4.contact/. Thus, the URL is NOT the path, but just a route for the link.
- Finally, why on earth would you want to disable the URL? That goes against all common sense, since the visitor will not know where they are, cannot use the back button in browser, sharing will not work, and of course its really bad for SEO also. Even if it was done, I don't see why you would want this, as it does not offer any feasible benefits.

vboa68 wrote:2. What about exif-IPTC meta data? How can I show them in popup (maybe) as in X2?

Will be available soon.

vboa68 wrote:3. How (and where) can I put an href tag in order to point to an item menu?
Example: in my contact page , I'd like to create a link on "disclaimer" word which opens the menu Disclaimer

What is your "menu Disclaimer" and what is "point to an item menu"? The links in the menu are PLAIN links that go to pages, and so should your own custom links be also. You don't "point links to menu items" (whatever that means).

vboa68 wrote:4. In my contact page, on my email address, how can I open directly an email client?

If you want bots to harvest your email address and start sending you spam, then you can add it to your page like this:

<a href="mailto:me@myemail.com">me@myemail.com</a>

Obviously not recommended.

vboa68 wrote:5. I don't understand why in my portfolio, all images seems to be "duplicated" even if I don't have duplicates in my gallery folder. Do you know why? any suggestion?

Should I guess? A link to this page would help. Also, I don't really understand what you mean by "duplicated". The gallery displays the items you have uploaded, plain and simple.

vboa68 · 12 Mar 2016, 12:19

Hi Karl

thx for your reply...
PLease have a look at http://www.vbf2009.com/x3

here my comments:

1. I remember in X2 that there was a flag in order not to display the full route or path... when I find that I will ping you again..

2. Good !!! i will wait for this..
3. Go to my webpage "Contact", you see the phrase
" The contents of this website are protected by copyright and/or other applicable italian law. Read the Disclaimer section...."
If I click on the word Disclaimer (in red color) I 'd like to open the webpage Disclaimer

4. OK no problem..I will leave like this..
5. This is important... If you go in my webpage Portfolio\wildlife or portfolio\lanscapes, you can see duplicates of the same photo,even if in the gallery i put only one photo..
I will send to you the user/pwd of the website...if you can have a look...

thx a lot
Vincenzo

13 Mar 2016, 01:29

vboa68 wrote:1. I remember in X2 that there was a flag in order not to display the full route or path... when I find that I will ping you again..

Yes, but first of all, x2 urls were the same as the actual folder path. The urls in x3 are NOT the same as the path. Thus, there is absolutely no advantage whatsoever of hiding the "url" (which i repeat again, is NOT the path). Add the fact that it's really bad for SEO, sharing, navigation and any modern logic, this will therefore never be a setting in X3.

vboa68 wrote:3. Go to my webpage "Contact", you see the phrase
" The contents of this website are protected by copyright and/or other applicable italian law. Read the Disclaimer section...."
If I click on the word Disclaimer (in red color) I 'd like to open the webpage Disclaimer

The link to this page is http://www.vbf2009.com/x3/disclaimer/. Therefore, any custom links to this page, you can add with root-relative linking:

<a href=/x3/disclaimer/>disclaimer page</a>

vboa68 wrote:5. This is important... If you go in my webpage Portfolio\wildlife or portfolio\lanscapes, you can see duplicates of the same photo,even if in the gallery i put only one photo..
I will send to you the user/pwd of the website...if you can have a look...

Looks like you have been renaming files from the X3 interface AFTER cached images were created. Then you have been renaming some files into names which existed before for other images in the same folder. An unfortunate coincidence, since resized images (smaller images) have been created based on the earlier name.

How do I know this? A wrong image, cached-resized version:

Add something to the end of url to force refresh of resized image:

Try login to FTP and empty the contents of folders /app/_cache/images/requests/ and /app/_cache/images/rendered/. I don't know why you are renaming filenames extensively from the panel after upload. You use image titles to set titles ...

vboa68 · 14 Mar 2016, 11:11

Hi Karl

thx for your support.. but:

regarding point 5: I did not rename any of the photos. I put title directly into Lightroom before I exported them.
And so the title worked fine in the final image.

I also deleted all *cache directory as per your suggestion and recached via Tool menu..

But I can still see multiple copies of my photos..

any other suggestion?

thx
Vincenzo

14 Mar 2016, 11:59

vboa68 wrote:any other suggestion?

I would have to try some things on your server ... What I don't understand, you say it shows duplicate images ... but it is also missing some images that should be there instead of the duplicated ones? It looks to me like it's the image-resized.

In fact, it is highly likely this "bug" (if it is a bug) is related to your file names "JPG_RAW_4183.jpg". Do you create that naming sequence yourself from lightroom? I have never seen a naming sequence using "JPG" in the beginning of the actual name. My educated guess, is that the extension in the filename is confusing the image-resizer. Can you try export- and upload images as "RAW_4183.jpg" (without the "JPG")? Even better would be if you renamed them to something like "web_4183.jpg" in lowercase. "JPG_RAW" in the filename is a bit off-target ... we already know it's a ".jpg" file, and it's certainly not "raw" after upload and resize.

I am pretty sure it's related to the filenames. Nothing similar has been reported earlier.

vboa68 · 14 Mar 2016, 14:14

hi Karl

I've renamed allof them as you suggested (web_xxx.jpg).
But still the same.

I don't know what to think..

ifyou can..Try yourself.. you should have the credential to my panel...upload some of your photos..so you can see..

thx
vincenzo

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