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Whenever I create new folder I cannot add photos to it. I found out, that folderdata.xml file is not created upon folder creation. Is this a known bug?


Usability questions:
- how to choose first visible gallery?
- how to sort galleries?
- would it be possible to show 'folder' thubmnails as the entry page?

ie.
I have Portraits, Panoramas ans City photos (separate galleries). I would like to have three thumbails representing each type as the welcome page. Will that be possible?

How do you create folders? Good idea is to delete demo content, create empty dir and chmod it 777 (everything in ftp client) then use admin.

Here is more on persmissions:
https://www.photo.gallery/index.php?p=37

If you create them by ftp, on some hostings folders become non-writable for php and vice versa.

First visible folder you set in theme right now (after release it will be in main config) it's called Start folder i think.

Sort galleries - that's in main config there are settings for default sort files and folders. Files sort can be overridden for every folder.

And folder thumbnails - thats start folder theme setting.

I have deleted all files from content folder and set content to '777'. I can create new folder, but I can't upload or move any pictures to it. When uploading I get HTTP 500 response. When moving I get also error message that file was not moved.

If I use demo content folders they work, so it may be the case you describet - php/ftp conflict? How can I check that? But it is strange that I can create a folder and nothing more.

As per sorting I ment user defined sorting, there is Auto, Random, Date and Name, but no user-defined

I think this might be related to swf uploader, try to disable it in config?

pain wrote:I think this might be related to swf uploader, try to disable it in config?

No, it does not help - I can create a new folder, but then I cannot change its properties. I get "Folder data wasn't saved" error message.

Sorry, have to take a look, could you provide a link to your gallery please, and ftp login would come in handy too.

I have requested my server admin to disable safe_mode. I have also updated (full reinstallation) gallery to new version (20081015). I will let you know if this will solve the issue (awaiting admin respone).

The new things I noticed are:
- swfupload does not work (pressing on Upload button does not give any action (Opera & Firefox);
- configuration is not browsable under Opera browser (unable to colapse/expand menus);
- unable to login under Internet Explorer 7.

Ill see how safe_mode setting turned off will affect uploading issues. If not I will send you login data.

Rafal Konieczny wrote:- swfupload does not work (pressing on Upload button does not give any action (Opera & Firefox);

This is a "flaw" with the new Flash player 10. It renders the SWFUpload module unworkable. We will have to look into that... For now you will either have to rollback to the flash9 player, or goto config and select "disableSWFupload". That will provide a plain html gmail-style uploader instead.

Rafal Konieczny wrote:- configuration is not browsable under Opera browser (unable to colapse/expand menus);

That was a bug that followed the 20081015 release and was fixed the day after. I think you need to download latest version again and update files in the "imagevue" folder.

Rafal Konieczny wrote: - unable to login under Internet Explorer 7.

Not quite sure what that could be. Try clearing "authenticated sessions" and "cookies" in your IE browser. Restart browser, try to login.

Rafal Konieczny wrote:Ill see how safe_mode setting turned off will affect uploading issues. If not I will send you login data.

I think disabling safe_mode will make a difference. However, it is not related to the "flaw" in the first issue.

Setting safe mode off helped with file management - case closed.

I won't bother with IE7, as I got the config menus work under Opera.
SWFUpload is not working, I have seen they have some bete release . You could upgrade html uploader - to enable multiple upload. Don't really know why you need SWFUpload for in the first place.

Usability comment:
Image list in folder view is very unusable with more then 5 photos. Can you make smaller thumbnails and place them in multiple columns (or mode switches like in Windows Folder view option) ?

I still don't understand how to make the default page display folder thumbnails. As an example - if you go to http://www.raffoto.pl/index.php you will have blank starter. I would like to have galleries/folders with description listed there.

New bugs (Opera, Flash 10):
- Fastclicking on Next image/Previous image (panel under the image) before the image is loaded is frozing the UI, you can olny get back to thumbnail view to make things work again.
- Full screen mode is frozen after turning it on.
- gardener and blue dragon themes does not support Polish glyphs (fonts/letters).

Rafal Konieczny wrote:Setting safe mode off helped with file management - case closed.

This is a common case - safe_mode does not allow full management capabilities.

Rafal Konieczny wrote:I won't bother with IE7, as I got the config menus work under Opera. SWFUpload is not working, I have seen they have some bete release . You could upgrade html uploader - to enable multiple upload. Don't really know why you need SWFUpload for in the first place.

I think you have misunderstood. It is not possible to have multiple file uploads without using SWF in the background. Therefore it needs to be SWFUpload or another SWF based upload module. All these modules(there are a few) had problems when Flash player 10 was released because of some new security implementations.

Rafal Konieczny wrote:Usability comment:
Image list in folder view is very unusable with more then 5 photos. Can you make smaller thumbnails and place them in multiple columns (or mode switches like in Windows Folder view option) ?

I don't understand what you mean here. With "image list in folder view", I suppose you mean plain thumbnails layout? Depending on your config and your screen size, the thumbnails may lay out for example 5x5 thumbnails(25 total) and the rest will be available in mutliple pages of course. You have full freedom to change both thumbnail sizes, frames, margins... and also the area in which they display so I don't see how this is a problem.

Rafal Konieczny wrote:I still don't understand how to make the default page display folder thumbnails. As an example - if you go to http://www.raffoto.pl/index.php you will have blank starter. I would like to have galleries/folders with description listed there.

That's because in your config you have set "startfolder = content/" - Therefore it will naturally look into the folder "content" ... Normally this folder doesn't have any images or thumbnails, but I see you have made a textpage? Just point it to the folder you want to start.

Rafal Konieczny wrote:New bugs (Opera, Flash 10):
- Fastclicking on Next image/Previous image (panel under the image) before the image is loaded is frozing the UI, you can olny get back to thumbnail view to make things work again.
- Full screen mode is frozen after turning it on.
- gardener and blue dragon themes does not support Polish glyphs (fonts/letters).

Not sure about fullscreen mode - you mean you can't get out of it at all? There is always a processing delay when going back and forth from full screen mode. If there is in fact a bug related to this(I have not encountered), then it is related to the flash player ... Imagevue simply initializes the command. If you don't like the fullscreen toggle, it can be turned off. The gardener and bluedragon themes use a pixel font requested by several users. Unfortunately, embedded fonts don't support all international characters. The font can easily be changed by editing the CSS file. What imagevue release are you using? - we added some further character support to this font in a recent release.