Photopost Pro 8.22 - Upload Photos Issue

420 · October 25th, 2012, 06:21 PM

Just upgraded from 8.03 to 8.22

Received this from my news department today.

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When uploading photos, I can't be viewing one specific gallery and click "Upload Photo" and keep it in that specific gallery, it changes back to "Members Gallery" every time now.

This is something that our news team uses daily, about 25-50 times every single day.

What are your thoughts on a fix?

Thank you.

Chuck S · October 25th, 2012, 06:46 PM

They would need to make sure that when they upload they select the proper category.

You can place a link and test login if you want me to look at a specific site.

I can view a category and hit upload photos and have that cat selected but have them double check the url when they hover over upload photo.'

what is the url is there a cat variable there? For instance with vbulletin 4 you have only been able to pass a category variable in the menubar of vb4 since 8.1 and required you to totally redo all the plugins.

You have never had this functionality of passing a category in the upload link with vb4 unless you used some altered navigation system which is likely since your discussing and showing pictures of this in your other post.

420 · October 25th, 2012, 10:52 PM

He's got one link in the header bredcrumbs hardcoded to
http://www.xxx.com/gallery/uploadphoto.php?cat=

Then we have this url hardcoded into the header drop down links
http://www.xxx.com/gallery/uploadphoto.php

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what is the url is there a cat variable there? For instance with vbulletin 4 you have only been able to pass a category variable in the menubar of vb4 since 8.1 and required you to totally redo all the plugins.

We were on Photopost 8.03 using VB 3.87 before, upgraded to VB4 in April, then to Photopost 8.22 this week. I remember being able to view a specific gallery, then clicking Upload Photo and being sent to the upload page where it automatically selected that specific gallery from the drop down menu, without having to choose it. This no longer works.

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You have never had this functionality of passing a category in the upload link with vb4 unless you used some altered navigation system which is likely since your discussing and showing pictures of this in your other post.

Just sent you an email with a test login to check.

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They would need to make sure that when they upload they select the proper category.

You can place a link and test login if you want me to look at a specific site.

Chuck S · October 25th, 2012, 11:00 PM

well I will make any comments to any email on the default coding from that email.

Hard coded links you have coded in outside the application would not pass a cat variable so if your users using that the default would be members gallery

Chuck S · October 25th, 2012, 11:07 PM

I looked at your site and your site is not using the supported vbulletin 4.2 navigation and as such without using such system your navigation links are not going to appear and therefore no cat variable to pass.

My only suggestion for you is what I commented in another thread you could show the old style photopost menubar with the post I made on that.

I can not assist you with your custom menu system that is not a function of product support.

420 · October 25th, 2012, 11:15 PM

Can you please show me some sites using the vbulletin 4.2 navigation, so I can see what I am missing out on?

My programmer is set on that not being something we want to use, so I'm stuck in the middle of you two. I want to make the choice, so please show me what I am missing, so I can compare apples to apples.

Thank you.

Chuck S · October 26th, 2012, 07:24 AM

reeftalk.com/gallery
warrelics.eu/classifieds
safechildids.com/gallery

You are not stuck in the middle of anything.

You need to understand that you are coming here asking a support question and my response is going to be always the correct answer from a support standpoint. We do not discuss custom mods or non standard code. The minute this is custom code issue this support thread is over. It is the same policy as vbulletin support. They will tell you go to the mod sites.

I took one look at your site saw the entire missing navigation and that custom dropdown bar with all your links and did not need to look further.

you need to look for 4.2 compatible vbulletin styles. Your issue is not uncommon. You have updated your software and now need to update all your custom stuff which is why I said you should have your guy that did all that redo things.

Now your vb navigation manager the whole point of that is they allow you to make lists easy so you could enter your links then get rid of that old bar.

Chuck S · October 26th, 2012, 08:09 AM

Here is a photo of the vb4 navigation

The main menutab is highlighted in the space it is on and the menu items for such tab are shown underneath.

The cat variable is $cat and only valid in PhotoPost so not sure your custom menu would pick that up or have the coding necessary.

Chuck S · October 27th, 2012, 10:33 AM

I do not know how you did your custom menu but for our navigation manager link our link reads like this

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Content visible to verified customers only.

Then we pass the cat variable into the vboptions array by doing a plugin like this

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Content visible to verified customers only.

Obviously from a support perspective I am gonna tell you to use default just like vbulletin would.

Hard for me to guess as I do not know how you form your custom menu but if your menu supports the vboptions array you could try placing this on the end of your uploadphoto.php link

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Content visible to verified customers only.

420 · October 28th, 2012, 09:31 PM

Thanks Chuck. I'm gathering data from everything you posted here, plus registering at the 3 sites you posted and am investigating the differences between the VB navigation, your navigation breadcrumbs and other forums, compiling a list for the programmer.

He's not been very reliable lately and is not available again until Tuesday.

Chuck S · October 28th, 2012, 09:38 PM

Yeah no problem. Your little drop down bar could probally easily be created in the vb navigation manager by you with relative ease if you choose to use the normal vb navigation.

I just made sure going through back most of your posts here after upgrade it is clear that the majority of issues seem to be related to your use of your custom stuff on your site and now that you upgraded vb photopost etc you just need to figure out what direction to go in.