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would it be possible to provide functionality to get thumbnail preview and a link to child folders in a parent folder view?

I use the folder layout to divide the pictures into main categories. On the homepage I want to put a link to category and not to a specific subfolder.

thx

Wouter

wouter.boeckx wrote:I use the folder layout to divide the pictures into main categories. On the homepage I want to put a link to category and not to a specific subfolder.

I am not quite sure how you are expecting this to work. If you link to a category with no images, where is the gallery supposed to go?

The only option would be if we created some "folder-page" that displays subfolders instead of thumnails.

I am not quite sure I understand correctly. Perhaps you can explain?

mjau-mjau wrote:

wouter.boeckx wrote:I use the folder layout to divide the pictures into main categories. On the homepage I want to put a link to category and not to a specific subfolder.

I am not quite sure how you are expecting this to work. If you link to a category with no images, where is the gallery supposed to go?

The only option would be if we created some "folder-page" that displays subfolders instead of thumnails.

I am not quite sure I understand correctly. Perhaps you can explain?

If I understand him correctly, then he is talking about a having an alternative to the flash menu as a method for navigating albums and nested albums. Here is an example in a PHP Gallery2. http://siriux.net/photos/main.php If you click on "2008" it actually just drills down into sub albums from 2008, then click on one of the sub albums and you get to the photos.

This implementation is useful in two ways.

1. It allows the visitor to get a quick top level overview of all albums with titles, descriptions, and a thumbnail.

2. You don't have to constantly go back to the menu to navigate to another album.

Your HTML version of imagevue2 almost achieves this type of structure, except the folders don't show an icon or description, just the folder name.

You can also see how I have my albums arranged (currently in Gallery2) at troyandtara.com

exactly lik Troywitt describes, I would like an overview of child folders in a folder, perhaps along with the images in the folder.
My main categories don't have images in them, just subfolders...

good explained.

That was a similar question I had in annother post, but could not describe it so well.
The html version looks a bit in this direction.

EXACTLY =)

We have been dwelling on something like this for a long time, and I might integrate something similar before final release. Thanks for the explanations!

and here is one more vote for this feature