All sub-categories are shown on one page - how to split in pages?

[xtumen]

I have imported some 200 albums into the Member's Categories. Then I switched off the personal categories option in that category, so there are not names but album thumbnails inside that category - looks almost like the all albums page in vB now, which I wanted.

The problem is all albums/categories are shown in one page, all 200 of them, and that's way too many. I could only find a restriction for personal categories on one page, but not for regular categories. Where is that setting to split the list in pages of say 15 categories?

[Chuck S]

Members personal albums are shown when viewing the specific members galleries of each user so your saying one user has 200 categories?

There are no pagination of albums in the code like categories.

[xtumen]

I have a photograhpers and models community. They all have albums, 200 is the total number of albums, it's not for one user.

What I need is to let visitors browse through photographers' and models' albums. Names/nicknames are meaningless - browsing through names gives no information to the visitor (another photographer or model). When browsing they need to see images, not names. Clicking each name to see what's inside is just too much clicking. That's why I need either category pictures for personal categories, or I just turn off the "personal" parameter of the category, so the albums are shown without separation into "names" categories. So there is a category "Photographers" with albums by photographers and "Models" with albums of models.

The problem is that all the albums in those categories are shown on one page.

Albums are technically just another categories, right? And categories where you can either upload pictures or create other categories are actually forums in vB terms. So in vB terms I have 100 sub-forums of a forum named "Photographers". In vB these sub-forums will be shown on several pages. Is it true that in vBGallery the "sub-forums" are not divided into pages ever?

[Luciano]

Well i remember having discussed that issue with zach a long time ago...
this is not how vbgallery works...
there are different approaches... and it depends on how you setup vbgallery.

I used to run a photographer/model comunity (closed now )
i set it up differently..
because a photographer wants to see images of models.. but those images are made by other photographers!
so mainly there were no personal albums..
Just images.. in subcategories like : headshots, swimware, glamour, black and white etc.. etc..
I had extra fields required to add the copyright and photographer of the image.. being: "myself" to a linked username..

so if a model looks for a photographer doing good headshots, she would browse category headshots.. click on a pic she likes, see it bigger and have a link to "see all of this photographers pics"

If a photographer looks for a model for doing headshots, he would do the same.. and click the link: "see all of this models pics"...

worked fine..
There was a problem though...when you had 3rd level subcategories..
example
category: swimware with 2 subcategories: bikinis and swimsuits

what I wanted, but what vbgallery does NOT do.. :
if a user clicks: swimware.. he gets 2 subcategory links and pics that are in category swimware...

what i wanted was different: that people could NOT upload to swimware.. but only to bikinis or swimsuits.. and if a users looks at category swimware he sees not only the links to the subcategories but all the pictures in bikinis AND swimsuits ... (ordered by date or something else..) (if he would click on bikinis, then he would have bikinis only)
this last thing is NOT possible with vbgallery (actually its possible put requires a hack that modifies db and file edits)


thats my 2 cents
Luc

[Chuck S]

Albums are not really categories exactly. They are personally owned. Categories are public all access to usergroups permissions you set. Also displays and how things operate are separate from categories and albums as you see.

[xtumen]

Originally Posted by Chuck S

Albums are not really categories exactly. They are personally owned. Categories are public all access to usergroups permissions you set. Also displays and how things operate are separate from categories and albums as you see.

In control panel "albums" and "categories" look like categories - "albums" are also there in the user group permissions page. The only difference is that an "album" has an owner (personnaly owned as you said). vBGallery can group "owned categories" a.k.a albums into fake "name" categories. And then aplly pagination to the "name" categories. What I can't understand is why "name" categories are paginated, but "real" categories are not paginated. Or is that lists of "not owned" categories divide into pages, but lists of "owned categories" don't divide?

I'll try to summon:

We have tree kinds of lists:

1. list of categories owners (nicknames), that is list of fake categories (they do not exist in control panel), list of dynamic categories

2. list of categories with personal owners (that is list of albums)

3. list of categories that are not personally owned

List number 1 is paginated, the setting is in the control panel, 15 is the default setting. That is if we have a 100 owners, we will see several pages of them.

My question is - are lists 2 and 3 paginated? If not, how do other owners of vBGallery deal with long lists of categories type 2 and 3?

[Chuck S]

Categories are created by admin

Personal albums are user owned and created.

These two featured are distinctly different and I beleive Luciano above posted a very well defined aspect of how it works.

Albums are not paginated.

[xtumen]

Originally Posted by Chuck S

These two featured are distinctly different and I beleive Luciano above posted a very well defined aspect of how it works.

Luciano suggested not using personal albums. To me that is not using the gallery, because my community is more facebook-like freestyle social network for enthusiasts, not for professionals. Plain catalogues of fixed type shots won't do. What I need is vB standard albums plus categories (which hold many many albums and need pagination obviously) plus some extended option for photos like rating etc.

OK, I see that I need to think of a workaround.

Chuck S, do you or anybody from vBGallery staff do custom work? Could you please help with a small hack:

template adv_gallery_categorybit_level1

next to this part about the category image:

Content visible to verified customers only.

I need something like:

Content visible to verified customers only.

The script shows the name of the user, so it can get the user's avatar too, I believe

I am ready to pay for the hack, of course

[xtumen]

Luciano, thank you for your suggestion! it's not suitable for my case though

[xtumen]

I guess my longer post got missed because of the following short one, so I'll repeat the question

Chuck S, do you or anybody from vBGallery staff do custom work? Could you please help with a small hack:

template adv_gallery_categorybit_level1

next to this part about the category image:

Content visible to verified customers only.

I need something like:

Content visible to verified customers only.

The script shows the name of the user, so it can get the user's avatar too, I believe

I am ready to pay for the hack, of course

[Chuck S]

You can post in THE MOD CORNER to see if anyone is interested in assisting. Maybe Luciano might be able to code something up for you I dont know.

[Luciano]

well that should not be to difficult.. but would involve hardcoding in the file..
its NOT a question of money but of time..
AND I hate doing things twice.
What I suggest, is you wait a couple of weeks... until vb4 beta comes out..
some of the vbgallery code is bound to change...
It will be easier to code something that has not to be redone after a couple of weeks...
vb3.8 has 2 avatars.. a normal sized one and a "mini" avatar.. for that the mini avatar would be the good choice.. but I dont know if it will still be there in 4.0x and if vbgallery will still have the same code either..

Luc