Why an event instead of a sub-category?

jfriend

Can someone explain why someone would use an event instead of a sub-category?

When I have multiple galleries for a particular sports season, I create a sub-category for the team, then put all the galleries in that sub-category and share the sub-category. This gives me a lasting structure so the images can be neatly categories on the site for as long as I want them there.

Besides the favorites features (which I don't understand why they aren't available for all galleries), what additional functionality does an event offer me? Why would one use an event instead of a sub-category?

jfriend

Bump. Nobody knows why you would use an event?

pilotdave

jfriend wrote: »

Bump. Nobody knows why you would use an event?

Your way of organizing your site may make it easier to replace an event with a subcategory. That wouldn't usually work well for me.

Also events have a whole set of features that subcategories don't.

On the other hand, I would find it very very unusual to need or want multiple galleries for a single event. Events adds an extra layer of complexity that I don't need. I'm not sure why the events features couldn't just be implemented at the gallery level. The only feature I want is favorites.

Dave

jfriend

pilotdave wrote: »

Your way of organizing your site may make it easier to replace an event with a subcategory. That wouldn't usually work well for me.

Also events have a whole set of features that subcategories don't.

On the other hand, I would find it very very unusual to need or want multiple galleries for a single event. Events adds an extra layer of complexity that I don't need. I'm not sure why the events features couldn't just be implemented at the gallery level. The only feature I want is favorites.

Dave

Same here. The only feature I want from them is favorites and I want favorites on the gallery level or sub-category level. But, because they made this "event" thingy and that's the only place they put favorites and events don't make sense on my site, I'm stuck with no favorites. It just doesn't seem that well thought out to me. It would have made more sense to implement favorites for any gallery and then, if there was still some need for an event thingy, add that on top of it. As it is now, favorites are blocked from being used on zillions of galleries. My viewers would love to have favorites, but I have no need for events.

WinsomeWorks

Yes, it seems like you might need an event thing for a whole sub-category, John... I mean with the structure of that sub-category visible somehow. I may be in the same boat, but I'm still just trying to wrap my head around how/where/if I might be able to use this Event thing. I read a whole bunch of stuff about it, and think I get the basic concept. But let me get one thing straight first. There's absolutely no correlation between the actual "Events" category that exists for our use here on Smug, right? I mean, putting an event in that particular category does nothing different for this new "Event... favorites" ability, right? I'm asking because I only have a few events there, and most of them are virtual galleries since the actual events fit better as subcategories or galleries under another category or sub-category like "Family" or "Music".... & I don't even have "Events" on my navbar for people to find anyway.

And if the above is true, it looks to me like I could really add any gallery from any category or sub-category to my "Event" to get all the capability this has... correct? It doesn't really matter what my basic underlying structure is that people are normally seeing?

It seems that there would be some way in there, John, to get your structure to sorta work with this type of "favorites" capability, but if there is, I don't have it worked out yet. I guess the problem in your case would be that the key attendees (i.e. parents or other interested onlookers) will have been to a bunch of events in each season, and looking for photos of their kid within all those events. So I see why you have each player with their own gallery. Maybe there would be a way to tweak it so that the player is the event, rather than the game being the event. But maybe the wording isn't very tweakable. Or if you made that sport be the event, could you just add each player's gallery to the event and send the event gallery invites to everyone who may be interested? I don't know... guess you've already thought this all through. I'm just trying to understand it so that I can figure out if it's useful for me or not. A lot of the same issues with sports would apply to band or choir as well... multiple events and players in a season. But I don't have the same individual galleries for the players, except my own kids. I don't know if that makes a difference.