List of galleries

Haiku

Hello, I am new here, almost sure to order Smugmug Power account.

I already toyed with my account, but was unable to find a simple way to look at a list of all my galleries regardless of category.

Only way I found was going through 'Tools > Control Panel > Homepage > scroll all way down' , but its really not comfortable. (and I dont want to have these galleries shown on my homepage)

So maybe you can point me to an easier way or just add 'List of galleries' to Tools menu. or something like that.

Thank you.

hoffmcs

I know there are some third-party tools that allow you view this information. One tool that I know if is SmugRoom, specifically the Gallery List tool. Check it out http://smugroom.com/.

Haiku

Thank you, but smugroom is not what I really need. I just want to have an easy and cler overview of all my galleries, quite like the one buried in the sub-sub-sub menu, but easily reachable and on separate page.

This is such a basic need for me, that I am quite surprised, that smugmug does not have it.

BradfordBenn

Star*Explorer can generate a list of galleries and images for you

SamirD

hoffmcs wrote: »

I know there are some third-party tools that allow you view this information. One tool that I know if is SmugRoom, specifically the Gallery List tool. Check it out http://smugroom.com/.

I was going to recommend the same thing.

If you simply want to see all your galleries as one list, then change the option on your homepage to display by gallery vs category. One way to have both would be to copy the html of one of those views and put it on an html page, but that would also have to be manually updated. There's a way to write a script to automatically generate a page, but that's programming...

Haiku

Hello, thank you fo replies. I did not explain myself clearly. I dont want an external application that would generate list of links for me.

I want to manage all my galleries regardless of category from one easily accessible smugmug page. Something like when you put the galleries on homepage, but I dont want to show them on homepage.

hoffmcs

I think there is a way to do what you want. Since you are a power user, you can use the advanced customizer to accomplish it. It will only work if you are not currently using the Gallery Categories/Galleries box on you homepage.

1. Add the Galleries box to your homepage (we will hide it later). Set it to show galleries.
2. In the Advanced Customizer, add the following:

Css

.homepage #galleriesBox { display: none; }
.galleries #galleriesBox { display: block; }

Bottom Javascript

function hasPath(sPath)
{
re = new RegExp("\/" + sPath + "(\/|$)");
return re.test(window.location)
} 

if (hasPath("galleries"))
YD.addClass(document.body, "galleries");

You can now browse to <yourhomepage>/galleries and see a listing of all your galleries. Like I said before, this only works if you are not using the Gallery Categories/Galleries box on you homepage for something else.

Haiku

GREAT! Works just like I want it to!

Thank you very much.

Fo those interested, this is my impression of smugmug so far:
almost limitless possibilities, but damn it's user unfriendly... it seems that it's made by programmers for programmers, not by designers for photographers. it's complete opposite of dphoto, that was my second photohosting candidate.

But this forum saves the day. I stay on smugmug.

jpc

I agree with you completely. Smugmug is very user unfriendly and counter-intuitive. Eventually, you'll get things to work as you become more familiar, but I have always felt that Smugmug has lost their perspective on how difficult it is to use their product when seeing it for the first time (or even the 100th). Wait until you have to move pictures from one gallery to another and realize that the galleries show up as one giant drop-down list, with no hierarchy whatsoever. The exception is the drop-down list used when "collecting" photos, but for some reason it has not been implemented site-wide.

This forum is the saving grace and it's packed with people that will help you find solutions. Good luck!

SamirD

But it's important to note that because of SM's complexity and flexibility, it's possible to do things that are not possible with the competitors. This is good for highly customized solutions, but I do agree that for the normal working pro, it is a bit of a steep learning curve.