batch add hidden photos

jchin

Is there a way to add a batch of photos but make them hidden within a gallery? Or do you have to manually hide each photo within the gallery?

Andy

Manually hide them.

jfriend

It would be possible to write a script that uses the Smugmug API to apply the hidden setting to a large group of photos in a gallery. To be practical, you'd probably have to be able to identify the images to be hidden in some way - either upload all the ones to be hidden first, then run the script on that whole gallery, then upload the rest or be able to tell which are to be hidden from some attribute on the image (caption, filename, etc...) and write the script to mark only the ones with that attribute to be hidden.

jchin

Can there be a way to say 'hide all photos' in a gallery and then 'move to gallery' all of those images? Effectively move hidden images into a gallery with visible images? If not now, maybe a possible future feature?

Reason, I have an event with over 800 images. They are allowed to see only 300 of them. However, I'd like to store the other 500 images in the same place so I don't have to have 2 galleries for the same event (one public and one private). Just wanted to keep it easier for management and not drive myself nuts in the future when I look back for an image.

jfriend

jchin wrote: »

Can there be a way to say 'hide all photos' in a gallery and then 'move to gallery' all of those images? Effectively move hidden images into a gallery with visible images? If not now, maybe a possible future feature?

Reason, I have an event with over 800 images. They are allowed to see only 300 of them. However, I'd like to store the other 500 images in the same place so I don't have to have 2 galleries for the same event (one public and one private). Just wanted to keep it easier for management and not drive myself nuts in the future when I look back for an image.

It can be done via an API script. I don't know any other way to do it.

jchin

How do I do an API script?

jfriend

jchin wrote: »

How do I do an API script?

Are you a software developer?

FYI, I almost never use Hidden images in my public galleries because I find it way too difficult to keep track of what is and isn't public and way too easy to accidentally make a mistake in what is and isn't public. Further, there's no way to ever give anyone else access to hidden images. So, I put non-public images in unlisted galleries (with or without passwords depending upon the privacy protection desired) and if they are related to another gallery, I put them in the same category/sub-category as that gallery and order them next to each other. Then, it's 100% clear to me what is and isn't public and I never have an issue with a mistake in that regard. And, if I want to offer someone access to the non-public images, I can also do that. I can make things public or make things private in large blocks by moving images between the two galleries.

jchin

I am a programmer, but I wouldn't go as far as saying software developer. I do write code to do system functions (I do systems administration as my day job). However, I've never written a web-based API script for a foreign server. All the code I've done is on the server directly.

As for your idea of having separate galleries, I think I will give that a try first and see how it works out before trying to write a bunch of code. Especially since we can now move images between galleries (I remember the days when we had to re-upload the image).

SamirD

The API isn't hard to get used to. I'm not a programmer and I've written stuff. And your creation could be used by others too. I'd make it a bulk gallery hide script. Feed it the album id and key and it automatically hides all the images in the gallery. Then you can just move all those images to your public gallery.

One caveat--if keeping images hidden is critically important to you, I wouldn't trust it. I recently found one of my galleries stripped of all its hide marks, and no explanation from SM. I haven't seen this before or on any of the other hundreds of galleries (I checked the published ones), but it has happened.

Allen

Put a keyword on each hidden photo like 'hidden photo' and you'll always be
able to find them. Also logged out, you can see if any went public, just look
for the keyword on the keyword page.

I used single quotes inside the double quotes so it sorts first on my keyword
page and very obvious if it appears logged out.
"'hidden photo'"

SamirD

Allen wrote: »

Put a keyword on each hidden photo like 'hidden photo' and you'll always be
able to find them. Also logged out, you can see if any went public, just look
for the keyword on the keyword page.

I used single quotes inside the double quotes so it sorts first on my keyword
page and very obvious if it appears logged out.
"'hidden photo'"

Not a bad idea, but all of my galleries are unlisted. Plus the time it would take to put that keyword in takes a lot more time than hitting 'h' to originally hide the photo.

Allen

SamirD wrote: »

Not a bad idea, but all of my galleries are unlisted. Plus the time it would take to put that keyword in takes a lot more time than hitting 'h' to originally hide the photo.

You will be able to see all keywords in unlisted and passworded galleries logged in.

SamirD

Allen wrote: »

You will be able to see all keywords in unlisted and passworded galleries logged in.

Good to know. But is there a super-fast way to keyword each of the hidden photos? Without resorting to the API.