Please fix multi-gallery settings to allow category or sub-category selection

jfriendjfriend Registered Users Posts: 8,097 Major grins
edited April 25, 2011 in SmugMug Support
Please fix the multi-gallery setting feature to allow one to select a category or a sub-category to change the settings on all galleries in category or all galleries in a sub-category without having to select each gallery individually one at a time.

Just as an example, I needed to change the sort order on all 20 galleries within a sub-category. With the current system, it takes 4 clicks and dexterity to navigate multiple levels of a drop-down menu to select each single gallery for a total of nearly 100 clicks to make this change. It is barely fewer clicks than just doing each gallery individually without the multiple select gallery feature at all (4 clicks per gallery vs. 5 clicks per gallery) so the multi-gallery feature is hardly saving anything.

If you just let me select the sub-category, the entire change could be done in about 8 clicks vs. 100 clicks. It goes without saying that anything involving 100 clicks is certainly not helping the productivity of your pros.

This is such an obvious capability, I'm still surprised it was left out of the first implementation because as it is currently implemented, it really only saves you much time if you're applying a change to all your galleries. Manually selecting each gallery individually is so time consuming (a hierarchical drop-down is probably one of the worst UIs for selecting many galleries repeatedly).
--John
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