Gallery view questions/feature requests

jfriend

As I was setting up a gallery for my family, I encountered several "wishes". I'm interested in whether there is a way to do these that I just haven't found or, if not, these are feature requests.

1) I want the gallery to "default" to Journal style and start out in that style, but still allow the viewer to switch to another view if they want. So far, all I can find that will start out in Journal view is to lock it in Journal view.

2) I'd like to offer a link in my introductory email that starts them in slideshow view. As it is, if I want to offer both Journal and Slideshow view, I have to send them an email with a link to the gallery. If they click on that link, the gallery will likely be in neither journal or slideshow view. If have to then explain in my email how they switch views. I'd rather just send them two links, one that starts in journal view and one that starts in slideshow view. By any chance, are there "?style=xxx" parameters that can accomplish this. When I watch the URL as I change styles, nothing changes so by default, smugmug isn't using the URL to track the current style.

3) When I offer a link to slideshow view, I'd like to be able to pre-set a bunch of default options. In this case, I'd like it to default to full screen, large size, 7 seconds per image, show captions. fade pm. The idea is that they click on a "slideshow" link I send them and the slideshow just starts with all the right options already set. They don't have to learn anything about navigating smugmug.

4) Is there a way for journal view to offer a larger view of the images. It's showing for me as a 200x300 (small size). The Elegant view shows a 299x450 (medium size). Ideally, I'd like Journal view with something a little larger than medium, but I'd take medium if I could get it.

Any helpful thoughts will be appreciated.

--John

Matthew Saville

jfriend wrote:

As I was setting up a gallery for my family, I encountered several "wishes". I'm interested in whether there is a way to do these that I just haven't found or, if not, these are feature requests.

1) I want the gallery to "default" to Journal style and start out in that style, but still allow the viewer to switch to another view if they want. So far, all I can find that will start out in Journal view is to lock it in Journal view.

2) I'd like to offer a link in my introductory email that starts them in slideshow view. As it is, if I want to offer both Journal and Slideshow view, I have to send them an email with a link to the gallery. If they click on that link, the gallery will likely be in neither journal or slideshow view. If have to then explain in my email how they switch views. I'd rather just send them two links, one that starts in journal view and one that starts in slideshow view. By any chance, are there "?style=xxx" parameters that can accomplish this. When I watch the URL as I change styles, nothing changes so by default, smugmug isn't using the URL to track the current style.

3) When I offer a link to slideshow view, I'd like to be able to pre-set a bunch of default options. In this case, I'd like it to default to full screen, large size, 7 seconds per image, show captions. fade pm. The idea is that they click on a "slideshow" link I send them and the slideshow just starts with all the right options already set. They don't have to learn anything about navigating smugmug.

4) Is there a way for journal view to offer a larger view of the images. It's showing for me as a 200x300 (small size). The Elegant view shows a 299x450 (medium size). Ideally, I'd like Journal view with something a little larger than medium, but I'd take medium if I could get it.

Any helpful thoughts will be appreciated.

--John

John, these are all really good ideas! I've also wished I could give people links that automatically change the "user adjustable" viewing style to what I want them to initially view it even though they can change it later... This is something that would be cool but it might requre a lot of deep, complicated re-working in the smugmug system that I don't know is possible. Let's wait for an "official" reply though...

Good luck!

-Matt-

devbobo

John,

To set a different default gallery style via a hyperlink, using the following format...

 http://www.smugmug.com/homepage/templatechange.mg?TemplateID=<template>&origin=<album url>

where <template> is as follows...

3 - SmugMug
4 - Traditional
7 - All Thumbs
8 - Slideshow
9 - Journal
10 - SmugMug Small
11 - Filmstrip
12 - Critique

eg.
http://introversion.smugmug.com/homepage/templatechange.mg?TemplateID=4&origin=http://introversion.smugmug.com/gallery/389624

Hope this helps,

David

Baldy

Nice answer, devbobo, and great suggestions. We discussed them some this a.m. as we were fighting off the unbelievable traffic generated by Rafael Nadal.

There are some potholes we need to think about in order to pull these suggestions off, but we will mull them over.

We love getting clear feedback like this.

All the best,
Chris

Mac Write

While we are on the topic of gallery suggestions, it would be nice if categories/galleries could have different looks. Basicly you can have multiple styles for your site and then assign them accordingly. An example would be if you have another site that showcases photos, but want to sell some of them, you point the people to the URL on Smugmug for sales, while retaining the look of X site.

jfriend

Great!
Thanks. This helps a bunch. This works to get someone started in the right style, while still letting them switch to other styles. So, as is, I can use this to get someone started in the Journal style.

For starting them in the slideshow style, I wish I could start them out in a full screen slideshow. The default size slideshow doesn't show them anything more than they see with other views (images are small). I'd really like to start them out in a full screen slideshow. Any hidden parameters for that one?

--John

devbobo wrote:

John,

To set a different default gallery style via a hyperlink, using the following format...

http://www.smugmug.com/homepage/templatechange.mg?TemplateID=<template>&origin=<album url>

where <template> is as follows...

3 - Elegant
4 - Traditional
7 - All Thumbs
8 - Slideshow
9 - Journal
10 - Elegant Small

eg.
http://introversion.smugmug.com/homepage/templatechange.mg?TemplateID=4&origin=http://introversion.smugmug.com/gallery/389624

Hope this helps,

David

devbobo

jfriend wrote:

Thanks. This helps a bunch. This works to get someone started in the right style, while still letting them switch to other styles. So, as is, I can use this to get someone started in the Journal style.

For starting them in the slideshow style, I wish I could start them out in a full screen slideshow. The default size slideshow doesn't show them anything more than they see with other views (images are small). I'd really like to start them out in a full screen slideshow. Any hidden parameters for that one?

--John

Hey John,

Glad it helped. Unfortunately, things aren't as easy to do with the full screen version of the slideshow, it's a fair bit more complex.

David

jfriend

A suggested implementation for "default gallery style"

devbobo wrote:

Hey John,

Glad it helped. Unfortunately, things aren't as easy to do with the full screen version of the slideshow, it's a fair bit more complex.

David

For the smugmug folks. I've been thinking about this "starting style" for a gallery some more. What we want is the ability to set the default style for a gallery, but still allow the user to change it themselves if they want. In my particular case today, this would let me set the default style to Journal, but still let people use slideshow or elegant if they want.

What would work for me would be to take the "Style" drop-down in the customize gallery page and make it be the "Default Style". Then, add an item right below it that says "Allow User to Change Style" and make that a Yes/No option with a default for Yes. Existing settings for the current field that are NOT viewer controlled would set "Allow User to Change Style" to No and get the same behavior they have today (thus maintaining backward compatibility, but giving everyone more choice going forward).

This would let you set the "starting style" for a gallery and would allow you to either let users see other styles or not.

I'm also still interested in a link that starts a full screen slideshow with captions on.

--John

pat.kane

devbobo wrote:

To set a different default gallery style via a hyperlink, using the following format...

David, this is indeed a handy tip. I created a "player locator" that utilizes keywords and wanted to show the team picture in the journal style, e.g.,

http://www.koalaplayhouse.com/gallery/906894

The problem was that once someone clicked on a link, the player's pictures were only shown in journal style (it doesn't look like we can allow the user to set the style for a keyword search).

I used your code above to create a link for each player, e.g., like this my son.

This way, I ended up with the team photo in journal view and the resulting player's pictures in smugmug small.

Thanks!
Pat

Andy

Hey, it appears to work with a Sharegroup, too

http://NICKNAME.smugmug.com/homepage/templatechange.mg?TemplateID=8&origin=http://NICKNAME.smugmug.com/share/SHAREGROUP#

This question came by email today.

dmc

jfriend wrote:

...
4) Is there a way for journal view to offer a larger view of the images. It's showing for me as a 200x300 (small size). The Elegant view shows a 299x450 (medium size). Ideally, I'd like Journal view with something a little larger than medium, but I'd take medium if I could get it.
--John

Since you can force a style, you must be a power user.... The following code will make ALL your journal pics Large, and sets Large Portraits to 600 tall (via the cool new custom size url feature). This also fixes the problem of having old Portrait pics (800 tall) and new portrait pics (600 tall) to be consistant.

I forced all my galleries to journal... and the user still has access to the slideshow since there is a button for it in journal view.

Example here

This code goes in the footer section... (it's a little hacked up right now, but it works) Check out the customization forum for more advanced versions.

<script>        
        var medium_scale = 1.5;
        var large_scale = 2.0;
        var small_max_height = 300;
        var small_max_width = 400;
        var upsize_re = /Journal(Small|Medium|Large)Rule/;
        function upsize_scale(target) {
                switch(target) {
                case 'M':
                        return medium_scale;
                case 'L':
                        return large_scale;
                default:
                        return null;
                }
        }
        function upsize_image(img, prefix, suffix, img_num, target) {
                var caption = document.getElementById('caption'+img_num);
                if (caption && upsize_re.test(caption.innerHTML)) {
                        target = RegExp.$1;
                }
                target = target.substr(0,1).toUpperCase();
                img.src = prefix + target + suffix; // target always L in this prog
                // if Image has at least one dimension large enough
                if(img.width == small_max_width) {  // landscape image
                  img.height = Math.round(2 * img.height);
                  img.width  = Math.round(2 * img.width);
                }
                if(img.height == small_max_height) {  // New portrait image
                  img.height = Math.round(2 * img.height);
                  img.width  = Math.round(2 * img.width);
                  img.src = prefix + "800x600" + suffix;
                } 
/*              if(img.height == small_max_height) {  // old portrait image
                  img.height = Math.round(2.6666667 * img.height);
                  img.width  = Math.round(2.6666667 * img.width);
                } */
        }
        function upsize_journal_entry(div,target) {
                var imgs = div.getElementsByTagName('IMG');
                var re = /(http:\/\/[^\/]*\/photos\/(\d+)-)S((-\d+)?.jpg)/
                for(var i=0; i<imgs.length; i++) {
                        if(re.test(imgs[i].src)) {
                                upsize_image(imgs[i], RegExp.$1, RegExp.$3, RegExp.$2, target);
                        }
                }
        }       
        function upsize_journal_entries(target) {
                var divs = document.getElementsByTagName('DIV');
                for (var i=0; i<divs.length; i++) {
                        if (divs[i].className=='journal_entry') {
                                upsize_journal_entry(divs[i], target);
                        }
                }
        }
        function isClass(sClass) {
                var sClassName = document.body.className;
                var re = new RegExp(sClass + "( |$)") 
                if (!sClassName)
                        return false;
                return re.test(sClassName);
        }
        if (isClass("journal")) {
                /* Journal Large Always */
                var upsize_target = 'L';
                upsize_journal_entries(upsize_target);
        }    
</script>
 

GaryBakker

I hope I'm not out of line here, but I'd like to echo all of jfriend's requests.

I'm a new Smugmug user and while navigation is fine once you're familiar with Smugmug, it'd be great if we could better control the viewer's initial experience to make it simple. And to make our photos be delivered to the viewer in the manner we think best suits them (with, of course, the option for the user to change.)

Regards,
Gary

jeffbridges

Awesome - where do I call the script?
Where do I call this script? I put it in the footer, but my image sizes didn't change...

dmc wrote:

This code goes in the footer section... (it's a little hacked up right now, but it works) Check out the customization forum for more advanced versions.

<script>        
        var medium_scale = 1.5;
        var large_scale = 2.0;
        var small_max_height = 300;
        var small_max_width = 400;
        var upsize_re = /Journal(Small|Medium|Large)Rule/;
        function upsize_scale(target) {
                switch(target) {
                case 'M':
                        return medium_scale;
                case 'L':
                        return large_scale;
                default:
                        return null;
                }
        }
        function upsize_image(img, prefix, suffix, img_num, target) {
                var caption = document.getElementById('caption'+img_num);
                if (caption && upsize_re.test(caption.innerHTML)) {
                        target = RegExp.$1;
                }
                target = target.substr(0,1).toUpperCase();
                img.src = prefix + target + suffix; // target always L in this prog
                // if Image has at least one dimension large enough
                if(img.width == small_max_width) {  // landscape image
                  img.height = Math.round(2 * img.height);
                  img.width  = Math.round(2 * img.width);
                }
                if(img.height == small_max_height) {  // New portrait image
                  img.height = Math.round(2 * img.height);
                  img.width  = Math.round(2 * img.width);
                  img.src = prefix + "800x600" + suffix;
                } 
/*              if(img.height == small_max_height) {  // old portrait image
                  img.height = Math.round(2.6666667 * img.height);
                  img.width  = Math.round(2.6666667 * img.width);
                } */
        }
        function upsize_journal_entry(div,target) {
                var imgs = div.getElementsByTagName('IMG');
                var re = /(http:\/\/[^\/]*\/photos\/(\d+)-)S((-\d+)?.jpg)/
                for(var i=0; i<imgs.length; i++) {
                        if(re.test(imgs[i].src)) {
                                upsize_image(imgs[i], RegExp.$1, RegExp.$3, RegExp.$2, target);
                        }
                }
        }       
        function upsize_journal_entries(target) {
                var divs = document.getElementsByTagName('DIV');
                for (var i=0; i<divs.length; i++) {
                        if (divs[i].className=='journal_entry') {
                                upsize_journal_entry(divs[i], target);
                        }
                }
        }
        function isClass(sClass) {
                var sClassName = document.body.className;
                var re = new RegExp(sClass + "( |$)") 
                if (!sClassName)
                        return false;
                return re.test(sClassName);
        }
        if (isClass("journal")) {
                /* Journal Large Always */
                var upsize_target = 'L';
                upsize_journal_entries(upsize_target);
        }    
</script>
 

dmc

jeffbridges wrote:

Where do I call this script? I put it in the footer, but my image sizes didn't change...

did you get this working? I just noticed your question.... I know, almost a month later...<img src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6029383/emoji/rolleyes1.gif&quot; border="0" alt="" >

Check a couple gallery settings...
Make sure you don't have "hide owner" set on the gallery (stops customization)

make sure the 'appearance' setting is set to custom

also, make sure the url you are using uses your nickname.smugmug, not www.smugmug...

last thing I can think of is make sure you are viewing a gallery, not a keyword, I've had trouble getting my keywords results to be displayed in my custom journal view. (I thought this had worked before, but recently I noticed it doesn't.... I asked here on dgrin about it, but nobody responded.)

lastly again, the hack I had above has been improved, by the customization gods, try this one now:

css code

#Journal800x600Rule {}

footer code

<script>
// Journal inline size control script.
// ===================================
//
// Add this to the Footer section of your smugmug coustomization.  Then you
// can control the size of inline journal images in a number of different
// ways.
//
//  1. Default gallery rules via CSS.  Add a CSS rule with a name containing
//     one or more of the following:
//
//          JournalSIZERule
//
//     where size is WIDTHxHEIGHT and gives the maximum dimensions of the
//     image. // The image will be made as large as possible while respecting
//     these limits.
//
//     For example, the css rule:
//
//          #Journal600x600Rule {}
//
//     Specifies that images should be as large as possible without either
//     dimension exceeding 600px.
//
//  2. Default gallery rules via the gallery Description.  To do this, specify
//     rules as above in the gallery description.  You can prevent them from
//     being displayed by encasing in spans.  For example:
//
//          <span name="Journal600x600Rule"></span>
//
//     The rules don't all have to be contained in one span name (unlike CSS
//     rules).  If there is at least one such rule in a gallery's Description,
//     the CSS isn't searched for rules and thus it takes precedence over any
//     rules specified there.  In fact, specifying the rules in the gallery
//     Description is essentially a little faster than using CSS.
//
//  3. Individual image rules.  The description of any image can contain a
//     JournalSIZERule.  Use the <span> trick to hide it.  If present, such a
//     rule take s precedence over the above.
//
//  4. Depricated support of specifying Medium or Large as a default and for
//     landscape and/or portrait orientations.  Basically, if you used this
//     before, it should still owrk.  So you can use Small, Medium, or Large
//     in place of the dimension limits above.  Additionally you can use add
//     Portrait or Landscape to specify that the Small, Medium, or Large size
//     only applies to that orientation.  For example
//
//          #JournalMediumRule_JournalPortraitLargeRule {}
//
//     Specifies Medium as teh default but Large for portrait orientaion.
//     rule take s precedence over the above.
 
var medium_scale = 1.5;
var large_scale = 2.0;
var small_max_height = 300;
var small_max_width = 400;
var medium_max_height = 450;
var medium_max_width = 600;
var large_max_height = 600;
var large_max_width = 800;
var upsize_re = /Journal(Small|Medium|Large)Rule/;
var portrait_resize_re = /JournalPortrait(Small|Medium|Large)Rule/;
var landscape_resize_re = /JournalLandscape(Small|Medium|Large)Rule/;
var custom_resize_re = /Journal(\d+)[xX](\d+)Rule/;
// ScaleRules is a class that has the job of figuring out just what to do with
// each image depending on the various rules present and the dimensions of the
// image.
function ScaleRules()
{
  this.default_rule = "";
  this.portrait_rule = "";
  this.landscape_rule = "";
  this.image_rule = "";
  this.has_custom_size = false;
}
function ScaleRules_hasGalleryRule()
{
  with (this) {
    return has_custom_size || default_rule || portrait_rule || landscape_rule;
  }
}
ScaleRules.prototype.hasGalleryRule = ScaleRules_hasGalleryRule;
function ScaleRules_MaybeSetGalleryRules(str)
{
  if (str) {
    if (custom_resize_re.test(str)) {
      this.has_custom_size = true;
      this.max_width = parseInt(RegExp.$1);
      this.max_height = parseInt(RegExp.$2);
      this.custom_size_string = RegExp.$1 + "x" + RegExp.$2;
    }
    else {
      if (upsize_re.test(str)) {
        this.default_rule = RegExp.$1.charAt(0);
      }
      if (portrait_resize_re.test(str)) {
        this.portrait_rule = RegExp.$1.charAt(0);
      }
      if (landscape_resize_re.test(str)) {
        this.landscape_rule = RegExp.$1.charAt(0);
      }
    }
  }
}
ScaleRules.prototype.maybeSetGalleryRules = ScaleRules_MaybeSetGalleryRules;
function ScaleRules_SetImageRule(str)
{
  this.image_rule = "";
  this.image_has_custom_size = false;
  if (str) {
    if (custom_resize_re.test(str)) {
      this.image_has_custom_size = true;
      this.image_max_width = parseInt(RegExp.$1);
      this.image_max_height = parseInt(RegExp.$2);
      this.image_custom_size_string = RegExp.$1 + "x" + RegExp.$2;
    }
    else if (upsize_re.test(str)) {
      this.image_rule = RegExp.$1.charAt(0);
    }
  }
}
ScaleRules.prototype.setImageRule = ScaleRules_SetImageRule;
 
function ScaleRules_CalculateScale(height,max_height,width,max_width,
                                   size_string)
{
  var height_scale = max_height / height;
  var width_scale = max_width / width;
  // Optimization, we'll use SM S,M,L images if they happen to be the right
  // size (and we can be sure of it!  Because of the change in L size in 2006,
  // we have to be careful about L
  if (height_scale < width_scale) {
    this.scale = height_scale;
    if (max_height == small_max_height)
      this.image_size_string = "S";
    else if (max_height == medium_max_height)
      this.image_size_string = "M";
    else
      this.image_size_string = size_string;
  }
  else {
    this.scale = width_scale;
    if (max_width == small_max_width)
      this.image_size_string = "S";
    else if (max_width == medium_max_width)
      this.image_size_string = "M";
    else if (max_width == large_max_width)
      this.image_size_string = "L";
    else
      this.image_size_string = size_string;
  }
}
ScaleRules.prototype.calculateScale = ScaleRules_CalculateScale;
scale_table = {'M': medium_scale, 'L': large_scale, 'S': 1};
function ScaleRules_SetImageSize(height,width)
{
  this.image_height = height;
  this.image_width = width;
  this.image_size_string = 'S';
  // Backward compatibility (mixing L,M and YxZ rules) makes this more hairy
  // than we'd like
  if (height == small_max_height || width == small_max_width) {
    if (this.image_has_custom_size) {
      this.calculateScale(height,this.image_max_height,
                          width,this.image_max_width,
                          this.image_custom_size_string);
    }
    else if (this.image_rule != "") {
      this.image_size_string = this.image_rule;
      this.scale = scale_table[this.image_size_string];
    }
    else if (this.has_custom_size) {
      this.calculateScale(height,this.max_height,
                          width,this.max_width,
                          this.custom_size_string);
    }
    else {
      if (this.portrait_rule != "" && height > width) {
        this.image_size_string = this.portrait_rule;
      }
      else if (this.landscape_rule != "" && height < width) {
        // Landscape
        this.image_size_string = this.landscape_rule;
      }
      else if (this.default_rule != "") {
        this.image_size_string = this.default_rule;
      }
      this.scale = scale_table[this.image_size_string];
      // Ugh, smugmug changed the meaning of L, so we have to be on our toes
      // about this.  Anything over 600px high, we can't tell if it's L or
      // not.  (uploads before a certain date are, after not).  So if we can't
      // know, we'll use the explicit custom size that corresponds to current
      // smugmug L.
      if (this.image_size_string == "L")
        this.calculateScale(height,600,width,800,"600x800");
 
    }
  }
}
ScaleRules.prototype.setImageSize = ScaleRules_SetImageSize;
function ScaleRules_ImageHeight()
{
  return Math.round(this.image_height * this.scale);
}
ScaleRules.prototype.imageHeight = ScaleRules_ImageHeight;
function ScaleRules_ImageWidth()
{
  return Math.round(this.image_width * this.scale);
}
ScaleRules.prototype.imageWidth = ScaleRules_ImageWidth;
 
function upsize_image(img, prefix, suffix, img_num, rule) {
  rule.setImageRule(document.getElementById('caption'+img_num).innerHTML);
  rule.setImageSize(img.height,img.width);
    if (rule.scale != 1) {                              
    img.src = prefix + rule.image_size_string + suffix;
    img.height = rule.imageHeight();
    img.width = rule.imageWidth();
  }
}
function upsize_journal_entry(div,rule) {
  var imgs = div.getElementsByTagName('IMG');
  var re = /(http:\/\/[^\/]*\/photos\/(\d+)-)S((-\d+)?.jpg)/
    for(var i=0; i<imgs.length; i++) {
      if(re.test(imgs[i].src)) {
        upsize_image(imgs[i], RegExp.$1, RegExp.$3, RegExp.$2, rule);
      }
    }
}
function upsize_journal_entries(rule) {
  var divs = document.getElementsByTagName('DIV');
  for (var i=0; i<divs.length; i++) {
    if (divs[i].className=='journal_entry') {
      upsize_journal_entry(divs[i], rule);
    }
  }
}
function isClass(sClass) {
  var sClassName = document.body.className;
  var re = new RegExp(sClass + "( |$)")
    if (!sClassName)
      return false;
  return re.test(sClassName);
}
if (isClass("journal")) {
  var rule = new ScaleRules();
  /* Check for a default journal size in the description */
  var description = document.getElementById('albumDescription');
  rule.maybeSetGalleryRules(description.innerHTML);
  if (! rule.hasGalleryRule()) {
    // Look for Journal(Medium|Large) CSS Rule */
    //
    // Unfortunately, document.getElementById('pickedTheme').sheet.cssRules[]
    // only seems to work on Mozilla; so we iterate */
    // skip first sheet assuming it's always smugmug's big choice */
    //
    // Now that we are looking for portrait and landscape rules as well, we
    // have to search completely.  I suppose we could fix by requiring
    // a single css rule to set all the options, for example:
    //
    //  #JournalMediumRule_JournalPortraitLargeRule {}
    //
    //  I don't know how big a performance problem we'd be fixing.
    for (var k = 1; k < document.styleSheets.length; ++k) {
      var objStyleSheet = document.styleSheets[k];
      var rules = objStyleSheet.cssRules ? objStyleSheet.cssRules :
        (objStyleSheet.rules ? objStyleSheet.rules : objStyleSheet.css);
      for (var j = 0; j < rules.length; ++j) {
        rule.maybeSetGalleryRules(rules[j].selectorText);
        if (rule.hasGalleryRule()) {
          k = document.styleSheets.length; // Break outer loop, too
          break;
        }
      }
    }
  }
  upsize_journal_entries(rule);
}
</script>
 

dmc

just thought of another gotcha, make sure the gallery you are viewing is not part of a community.... some communities are configured to display 'their' way, and will not use your customization.

Andy

dmc wrote:

just thought of another gotcha, make sure the gallery you are viewing is not part of a community.... some communities are configured to display 'their' way, and will not use your customization.

And thank you, dmc, for the help here in this thread

MichaelKirk

Call me blind, but
I donot see anywhere in the code where what galleries are specified?
tried entering the code and nada.

Michael

jeffbridges wrote:

Where do I call this script? I put it in the footer, but my image sizes didn't change...

dmc

MichaelKirk wrote:

I donot see anywhere in the code where what galleries are specified?
tried entering the code and nada.

Michael

Any gallery viewed in Journal style will use this hack...

if (isClass("journal")) {
....

Also, double check for the gotcha's here
http://www.dgrin.com/showpost.php?p=340736&postcount=14
and here
http://www.dgrin.com/showpost.php?p=340771&postcount=15

and lastly, make sure the gallery has some description defined for it. The code has a bug that if there is no description to read, it doesn't work.

jcp

Hello,

I was also hoping to be able to force a visitor to a particular viewing style (filmstrip) but still want them to be able to change to their choice. Is this possible? At the moment I have everyone forced on the filmstrip and they can't change. I have a pro account: e.g: http://jcp.smugmug.com/gallery/2337120

In the beginning of this thread, it shows a way to do this by URL, but what if I just want a hack so that everytime any gallery is opened, it opens in the filmstrip, then the viewer can change if they like to another viewing style.

Many thanks in advance.

System

Please permit me to second not only the feech, but jfriend's recommended implementation of the solution; uncoupling "force" into a checkbox is precisely the right solution, UI wise.

devbobo

dmc wrote:

if (isClass("journal")) {
....

dmc,

get rid of the isClass function...and use the built-in yui version.

YD.hasClass(document.body, 'journal')

Cheers,

David

g1r2e3g

devbobo wrote:

http://www.smugmug.com/homepage/templatechange.mg?TemplateID=<template>&origin=<album url>

This link is great, it half solves my my problems of linking to my site externally direct to keywords, but unfortunately people who wander in via a non gallery link still wont get this forced style.

Knowing this hack exists now however raises the question to me that if this code exists within the smugmug codebase why can it not be worked into the system so that when any page of photos is called (gallery or keywords or other), if its not a gallery with its own settings then it calls this code with default settings that the user can customize. Voila!

If we can now set a default theme, why not a default style?

Greg.

dmc

devbobo wrote:

dmc,

get rid of the isClass function...and use the built-in yui version.

YD.hasClass(document.body, 'journal')

Cheers,

David

umm... well I just happened to peruse this thread and noticed this posting directed at me! I made the change and my pics look much better now, thanks!

congrats on your new job! looking forward to you making quick work of the many outstanding feature requests! especially the easy ones like, "gee... why can't I download my own pic when I'm logged in??" and such.

let me know when you have the "configurable journal" style working... You know, the one that lets me pick how many pics per page, and what size, etc... and some other cool features that even I haven't thought of ... I can test it for you!

dcyphert

devbobo wrote:

John,

To set a different default gallery style via a hyperlink, using the following format...

 http://www.smugmug.com/homepage/templatechange.mg?TemplateID=<template>&origin=<album url>

where <template> is as follows...

3 - SmugMug
4 - Traditional
7 - All Thumbs
8 - Slideshow
9 - Journal
10 - SmugMug Small
11 - Filmstrip
12 - Critique

eg.
http://introversion.smugmug.com/homepage/templatechange.mg?TemplateID=4&origin=http://introversion.smugmug.com/gallery/389624

Hope this helps,

David

David,

I'm having a little trouble w/the syntax in my navbar...can you see what I'm doing wrong here. Thanks.

<li><a href="http://www.smugmug.com/homepage/templatechange.mg?TemplateID=<smugmug small>&origin=<<A href="http://propointmedia.smugmug.com/popular/#124342349/">Most">http://propointmedia.smugmug.com/popular/#124342349/">Most Popular Photos</a></li>

Andy

dcyphert wrote:

David,

I'm having a little trouble w/the syntax in my navbar...can you see what I'm doing wrong here. Thanks.

<li><a href="http://www.smugmug.com/homepage/templatechange.mg?TemplateID=<smugmug small>&origin=<<A href="http://propointmedia.smugmug.com/popular/#124342349/">Most">http://propointmedia.smugmug.com/popular/#124342349/">Most Popular Photos</a></li>

use this:
<li><a href="http://www.smugmug.com/homepage/temp...ateID=<10>&origin=<<A href="http://propointmedia.smugmug.com/popular/#124342349/">Most">http://propointmedia.smugmug.com/popular/#124342349/">Most Popular Photos</a></li>

NOT the words, smugmug small, rather the number "10"

bskaran

Andy wrote:

use this:
<li><a href="http://www.smugmug.com/homepage/temp...ateID=<10>&origin=<<A href="http://propointmedia.smugmug.com/popular/#124342349/">Most">http://propointmedia.smugmug.com/popular/#124342349/">Most Popular Photos</a></li>

NOT the words, smugmug small, rather the number "10"

I want to set the popular gallery to smugmug small. I tried this but it is not working. Could you please check if I am missing something? <img src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6029383/emoji/headscratch.gif&quot; border="0" alt="" >

My link www.bskaran.com

Andy

bskaran wrote:

I want to set the popular gallery to smugmug small. I tried this but it is not working. Could you please check if I am missing something?

My link www.bskaran.com

your link should look like this:

http://www.smugmug.com/homepage/templatechange.mg?TemplateID=10&origin=http://www.bskaran.com/popular

bskaran

Andy wrote:

your link should look like this:

 
http://www.smugmug.com/homepage/templatechange.mg?TemplateID=10&origin=http://www.bskaran.com/popular

Thanks Andy. Its working now

CelsoDiniz

CAN'T GET IT: different default gallery style via a hyperlink
Hi, I can't get this to work... Can you please give me the command to my case ?

I want to make the gallery
http://www.celsodiniz.com/keyword/favorite
always start as Film Strip whenever they click on "MyFavorites" on my navbar.

Thank you !!!
Celso.

Originally Posted by devbobo
John,

To set a different default gallery style via a hyperlink, using the following format...

http://www.smugmug.com/homepage/templatechange.mg?TemplateID=<template>&origin=<al bum url>

where <template> is as follows...

3 - Elegant
4 - Traditional
7 - All Thumbs
8 - Slideshow
9 - Journal
10 - Elegant Small

eg.
http://introversion.smugmug.com/home...gallery/389624

Hope this helps,

David

Andy

CelsoDiniz wrote:

Hi, I can't get this to work... Can you please give me the command to my case ?

I want to make the gallery
http://www.celsodiniz.com/keyword/favorite
always start as Film Strip whenever they click on "MyFavorites" on my navbar.

Thank you !!!
Celso.

New thread not needed. I merged here, where Devbobo will see it
He's traveling today, and tomorrow.

jfriend

CelsoDiniz wrote:

Hi, I can't get this to work... Can you please give me the command to my case ?

I want to make the gallery
http://www.celsodiniz.com/keyword/favorite
always start as Film Strip whenever they click on "MyFavorites" on my navbar.

Thank you !!!
Celso.

This one works if you follow the instructions in devbobo's posting #3 in this thread. Here's the link that starts you out in filmstrip mode:

http://www.celsodiniz.com/homepage/templatechange.mg?TemplateID=11&origin=http://www.celsodiniz.com/keyword/favorite#121591048

http://www.celsodiniz.com/homepage/templatechange.mg?TemplateID=11&origin=http://www.celsodiniz.com/keyword/favorite#121591048