Import problems - sorting images

m_k · February 17th, 2010, 10:56 PM

I may be missing something, but so far can't figure this out...

Got the VBgallery installed and working.

Ran the import script to move photos from Albums to gallery.

Here's what I got:

Member Categories
cat name1 (user one subcat)
cat name2 (user two subcat)
cat name3 (user three subcat)
(goes on and on - a whole long page of subcats, many with exactly the same names such as "Me" and "Home")

If I click on Member Categories I get the alphabetical listing of members with photos

user one
user two
user three

Click on user one and I get
sub categories: user one's images
cat name1 (user one subcat) - (this is where the images have been imported to -- this was the album name from vbulletin albums)

images in category: user one's images
this is blank - no images here

I would have thought that the images would get dumped into the second location and not the first - it sure would be more organized that way.

Chuck S · February 18th, 2010, 06:58 AM

Feel free to post an actual link to your gallery so we can respond. How images are imported depends on how vb albums where setup. Basically the actual albums should simply be copied over in whole to the vbGallery.

m_k · February 18th, 2010, 11:06 AM

test.expat.ru/forum/photos/

Chuck S · February 18th, 2010, 11:53 AM

Your gallery does not appear to come up at that url

m_k · February 18th, 2010, 12:39 PM

sorry about that, gallery is in root directory test.expat.ru/photos/

Chuck S · February 18th, 2010, 01:02 PM

Did you alter the script at all

http://www.photopost.com/forum/1247101-post1.html

The albums should only appear under your members category to my knowledge.

m_k · February 18th, 2010, 01:59 PM

nope didn't touch it, just ran it...

Chuck S · February 18th, 2010, 02:11 PM

Okay but what does that line say in your import script about the parent?

IMPORTANT ASSUMPTION!

There is one assumption about this import script - that your have the default Member's Categories still setup. This is a catuserid of "3" - in the importalbums.php script, we use this explicitly. If you want to put these albums into a different Member's Categories, you will need to modify the script accordingly:

m_k · February 18th, 2010, 05:26 PM

here's the line from my script:

Code:

Content visible to verified customers only.

Member's Categories was not changed:

Edit Category: Member's Categories (id: 3)

m_k · February 18th, 2010, 05:32 PM

Not sure if it is related or not, but if you look at most of these albums and try to click on "previous" or "next" the following error message appears: No Image specified. If you followed a valid link, please notify the administrator

Chuck S · February 18th, 2010, 06:33 PM

You can send a valid admin login through the contact us link I can look at your script maybe clear out the import and start fresh

m_k · February 18th, 2010, 08:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chuck S

You can send a valid admin login through the contact us link I can look at your script maybe clear out the import and start fresh

Sent you the info... I have cleared and restarted a few times, but happy to let you have another shot at it :-)

Chuck S · February 18th, 2010, 08:10 PM

Not a problem have not personally ran this one two much since I mainly work with Pro not vbGallery but will check it out

Chuck S · February 19th, 2010, 09:45 AM

Moscow Photo Gallery

You can set the level of children to display on the index. You had yours set to a depth of 2 so members galleries and its children which are all the albums imported displayed. I set it to 1

m_k · February 19th, 2010, 11:26 AM

That sort of helps, but then when I have a section (see the new Moscow Photos section) the cats below don't show...

I am guessing there is no way that all those personal albums could have been imported differently? It would have been great if the names had been the usernames and not the album names, or if all images for each member were dumped into the default category for that member.

Chuck S · February 19th, 2010, 11:48 AM

well if we imported albums without importing the albums I think customers would be upset. Yes it appears to me your looking for something to display differently then it is suppose to.

Moscow Photo Gallery

its all about how you set things up you set it to not act as a category

You can say DO NOT ACT AS A CATEGORY HOWEVER you will need to set the catdepth to 2 not 1 and then of course children will appear.

m_k · February 19th, 2010, 01:52 PM

Got it... thanks for your help :-)

Chuck S · February 19th, 2010, 02:07 PM

no problem enjoy your weekend

m_k · February 19th, 2010, 05:02 PM

Expat.ru Russian Photo Gallery

Here's what I managed to sort out...

Via admincp went into each of the member's categories in question and copied the member's name to the beginning of the title. Now instead of 20 "Me" categories I have "Alice - Me", "Bob - Me", etc.. I set the depth to 3 levels and created a new section called Member's Photos and put all of those cats there. Looks a lot cleaner now :-)

Still have a problem with the "previous" and "next" links going to an error message though when browsing in the albums...

Chuck S · February 19th, 2010, 05:40 PM

alina2 - Expat.ru Russian Photo Gallery

they seem to work for me