Mass change category?

jfriend

What is the fastest way to change the category and sub-category on 75 galleries? Growing pains and the site needs to be reorganized a bit.

jfriend

jfriend wrote:

What is the fastest way to change the category and sub-category on 75 galleries? Growing pains and the site needs to be reorganized a bit.

Bump, nobody has any ideas? Are there any scripts (Perl or Python) that could be modified to do this? Any tools that can do this. I want to move entire hierarchies around. I've done the first 25 in SmugBrowser, but doing them one at a time is a real pain.

devbobo

John,

I could hack up something real quick in perl if you want.

Let me know the details, like the galleries that you are changing the cat/subcats for, are they all currently in the same cat/subcat.

Cheers,

David

jfriend

devbobo wrote:

John,

I could hack up something real quick in perl if you want.

Let me know the details, like the galleries that you are changing the cat/subcats for, are they all currently in the same cat/subcat.

Cheers,

David

I sincerely thank you for the offer. As I went to figure out how to answer your questions, I realized that with the 25 I had already done manually, that if I did just a few more manually, I could rename the remaining top level category and that would handle the last 70 instead of moving them. So, I'm good for now. I escaped with only 30 manual operations instead of 100.

I hope this is on Smugmug's radar to have a better way of doing this in the long run. With more and more customers having 5+ years of galleries accumulating, there are inevitable growing pains and customers need to reorganize at some point. If you have to reorganize and have lots of galleries, there really isn't a good answer right now.

It's probably something that could go in SmugBrowser too.

I'm good now, but hoping for a built-in way to do this in the future. Thanks.

Allen

I thought SmugBrowser was going to have drag and drop some day to do this?

devbobo

Allen wrote:

I thought SmugBrowser was going to have drag and drop some day to do this?

well, development of SmugBrowser has kinda been hijacked by the developer who fixed it for FF 3.0, without so much as an email.

jfriend

devbobo wrote:

well, development of SmugBrowser has kinda been hijacked by the developer who fixed it for FF 3.0, without so much as an email.

It would be nice if the SmugBrowser project was put into something like SourceForge where multiple people could contribute in a moderated fashion. I've been wanting to do some enhancements to it myself, but don't really know how to contribute those to the code base going forward. Obviously, I could write them and use them myself, but I'd rather they go into the mainstream. Any thoughts about that?

Allen

jfriend wrote:

It would be nice if the SmugBrowser project was put into something like SourceForge where multiple people could contribute in a moderated fashion. I've been wanting to do some enhancements to it myself, but don't really know how to contribute those to the code base going forward. Obviously, I could write them and use them myself, but I'd rather they go into the mainstream. Any thoughts about that?

John, I'm been holding off on FF3, how does WebDev, Firebug and SmugBrowser work with v3? Any problems seen so far?
Thanks

jfriend

Allen wrote:

John, I'm been holding off on FF3, how does WebDev, Firebug and SmugBrowser work with v3? Any problems seen so far?
Thanks

I help off on FF3 until a week ago. WebDev works fine (no differences). Firebug also works fine and has some more features because it's a newer version for FF3. I've just used SmugBrowser once and it also worked fine - no problems. So, far no regrets in moving to FF3. The browser itself seems noticeably faster.

Allen

jfriend wrote:

I help off on FF3 until a week ago. WebDev works fine (no differences). Firebug also works fine and has some more features because it's a newer version for FF3. I've just used SmugBrowser once and it also worked fine - no problems. So, far no regrets in moving to FF3. The browser itself seems noticeably faster.

Thanks John

bwg

FF 3.1 due out very shortly. Its what FF3 should have been. Lotsa good stuff...and faaaast fast.

FF2 will be officially dead soon after is the rumor.