Gallery Setting - Multiple Galleris is a .......

Art ScottArt Scott Registered Users Posts: 8,959 Major grins
edited March 4, 2011 in SmugMug Support
Gallery Setting - Multiple Galleries is a pain to work in.
I have several galleries that need the exact same changes made...so I went in to the Multiple Galleries button...but I can only pick 1 gallery at a time.......this is NO much faster than going to each gallery and click on the gallery setting box to make the changes..................

1- Why can't we click CTRL (pc here) and then HighLight all the gallery's we want to change??

2- If I check All My Galleries......is that exactly as it states all my galleries site wide or is for all the galleries in the Category that shows under Essentials??
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  • jfriendjfriend Registered Users Posts: 8,097 Major grins
    edited January 31, 2011
    Art Scott wrote: »
    Gallery Setting - Multiple Galleries is a pain to work in.
    I have several galleries that need the exact same changes made...so I went in to the Multiple Galleries button...but I can only pick 1 gallery at a time.......this is NO much faster than going to each gallery and click on the gallery setting box to make the changes..................

    1- Why can't we click CTRL (pc here) and then HighLight all the gallery's we want to change??

    2- If I check All My Galleries......is that exactly as it states all my galleries site wide or is for all the galleries in the Category that shows under Essentials??
    Smugmug blew the most obvious use cases when they implemented the multiple gallery settings. They almost has a wonderful feature. As it is now, I can pretty much never use it. It had to be someone designing it that just doesn't manage a lot of galleries and really needed this faeture. All galleries is all galleries. There is no way to operate on just the galleries in a category which is SUCH an obvious use case. You will have to pick each gallery in the category one by one.

    I agree with your sentiment. There ought to be just a big screen with your galleries in a collapsible hiearchical view and you can check a category or individual galleries real quickly all in one screen and then go. This business about picking individual galleries one at a time through a hierarchical menu is about the least efficient way it could have been implemented. Wait until Smugmug has even more levels and this UI is going to be even worse.
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  • juliankjuliank Registered Users Posts: 43 Big grins
    edited February 27, 2011
    Found this post and lost all my hope to find an easy way to change settings on multiple galleries ..... omg.
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  • SamirDSamirD Registered Users Posts: 3,474 Major grins
    edited February 27, 2011
    Yeah, it's a pain. I had to change a couple of hundred once and it took the whole day.

    Here's the quickest way I found to do it though.

    Reboot your computer and only run your browser. Open your main page or category that has all the galleries. Open each album in a different tab, as many as your system can handle without getting slow. Now go through each tab, making the same change and hitting save. Change to the next tab as soon as it starts saving. It helps if you have a high resolution monitor so you don't have to scroll. If you can use a keyboard shortcut to move between tabs, use it. This way you mouse with one hand and move tabs with another. Once you've made changes and saved all your galleries, close the tabs, starting with the one you saved first since it will be done saving. Then you're left with your page of albums again and you can continue the process.

    It's better to have only a few tabs open and your system not slow down than a bunch and it slow down. If it's slowing down, it's closer to crashing. And after doing this a few times, there's going to be memory leak issues that will eventually crash the system if you continue long enough. Different browsers will have different efficiencies and speed, so experiement.
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  • juliankjuliank Registered Users Posts: 43 Big grins
    edited February 27, 2011
    Thank you for this hint!

    I just tried using change settings for multiple galleries, but it looks that I will have to go in individually for some settings. For example it doesn't allow to update the watermark on existing images when it updates multiple galleries.
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  • juliankjuliank Registered Users Posts: 43 Big grins
    edited February 27, 2011
    Added this suggestion on the feedback forum:

    http://feedback.smugmug.com/forums/17723-smugmug/suggestions/1538577-simplify-settings-update-for-multiple-galleries?ref=title
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  • SamirDSamirD Registered Users Posts: 3,474 Major grins
    edited March 3, 2011
    It says that idea has been deleted. headscratch.gif
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  • rainforest1155rainforest1155 Registered Users Posts: 4,566 Major grins
    edited March 4, 2011
    Try entering multiple galleries on the feedback page. There's a number of suggestions that come up. Maybe the one Julian linked to was a duplicate of sorts or there's a problem with the link?
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  • SamirDSamirD Registered Users Posts: 3,474 Major grins
    edited March 4, 2011
    First thing I tried... ne_nau.gif
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  • juliankjuliank Registered Users Posts: 43 Big grins
    edited March 4, 2011
    Sorry for a late update ... busy week.

    When I look at feedback from my end it shows 'status: duplicate'. I guess they removed my entry and there must be somewhere a similar feedback. I will be glad to add a vote, but I need to find it first.


    Couple minutes later, and just found the other feedback here.

    The one that I tried to start was: "One idea .... have a list of gallery names on the left side and have an ability to move names to a list on the right side, and then apply the selected settings."
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