Keyword "problem"

MadisonPhotography

I am shooting a very large triathlon this weekend and was under the impression I could use keywords as a simple and effective way to have participants find their photos....

Keep in mind that each person will have 3-10 photos taken of them...

I simply wanted to use keywords with an abbreviation of the event, in this case Capital View Triathlon and then their bib number....the keyword I would input would be

CVT1701 or whatever their bib is

I tried this on a couple sample photos and all I could get to stick was the CVT

I tried another with just a bib number, in this case 001 and tried applying that to several photos in teh series (that was all photos should appear when a search is done)

Neither seems to work.....

Sunday is the big event....can anyone help?

http://madisonphotography.org

Thanks,
Nick

denisegoldberg

I believe that if you are using a keyword like CVT1701 that you need to enclose it in quotes when you enter it. So "CVT1701", not CVT1701.

See "I want all the details" on this page - http://www.smugmug.com/help/keywords-tags.

--- Denise

aktse

Slightly off topic and more a fyi than anything else... Note. I'm assuming that you're taking race photos of bunch of athletes, keyworkding by bib number, uploading to smugmug and using them to sell.

Keywording with a bunch of photos with bib number may fall under the the Peter Wolf's stupid patent.

I don't agree with it; i don't like it. I think it's wrong. However, Smuggy settled with him and photocrazy and the liability now goes to the user (look at the bottom TOS).

thread on the issue from years ago

To get around the issue of patent infringement, you need to pay Peter Worf some $ or $$. Or, just ignore and hope his lawyers don't troll every photo gallery on the interweb.

Don't blame smuggy -- blame Wolf. Smugmug wasn't the only photo hosting service that settled (printroom etc). I just don't want you to be caught off guard.

MadisonPhotography

Thanks Denise
Worked like a charm.....

now if I can just figure out how to make albums within categories within a gallery....or something like that...

denisegoldberg wrote:

I believe that if you are using a keyword like CVT1701 that you need to enclose it in quotes when you enter it. So "CVT1701", not CVT1701.

See "I want all the details" on this page - http://www.smugmug.com/help/keywords-tags.

--- Denise

denisegoldberg

MadisonPhotography wrote:

now if I can just figure out how to make albums within categories within a gallery....or something like that...

Use subcategories.

http://www.smugmug.com/help/upload-photo

--- Denise

MadisonPhotography

Thanks Denise
I thought that might be the answer but was "afraid" to do so close to the event..

So if I understand correctly, in my gallery for:

Capital View Triathlon

I create sub catagories and this basically creates an "album"...

Thanks again...

Nick

denisegoldberg wrote:

Use subcategories.

http://www.smugmug.com/help/upload-photo

--- Denise

denisegoldberg

MadisonPhotography wrote:

I thought that might be the answer but was "afraid" to do so close to the event..

So if I understand correctly, in my gallery for:

Capital View Triathlon

I create sub catagories and this basically creates an "album"...

Sort of. You create a subcategory, then assign the galleries to the subcategory.

--- Denise