Photos not displaying on home page

ldyhumbirdldyhumbird Registered Users Posts: 2 Beginner grinner
edited August 4, 2013 in SmugMug Support
I selected a layout with a collage format. The problem is, my photos were uploaded into unlisted galleries, because I need to put different print mark (signatures) on the photos within the same gallery. Some times one print mark does not work due to color or placement. I then created the gallery for the group of photos and made it a smart gallery - so it found the photos from the unlisted signature galleries and put them in the right place.
With the collage format on the home page, it will not display the photos from an unlisted gallery. So even though I selected some 36 photos from my different galleries, they don't show up.
So how do I do what I need to do to get different signatures on photos that belong together and still get them to show up in the home page.
I will say that when I did it, everything showed on my screen in edit mode and in preview. I did not find out they did not show until I unveiled. How Nice!
Thank you for your assistance.

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  • ldyhumbirdldyhumbird Registered Users Posts: 2 Beginner grinner
    edited August 4, 2013
    I posted this to the Smugmug heros -
    sorry this is so confusing.
    So starting from the top. My site - skarskiphotoarts.com.
    I will use the gallery competitions as my example.
    1) I take photos for events and due to change in backgrounds - I cannot use the same signature on all the photos for the event.
    The event's photos will go into one gallery.
    2) I created a gallery that is unlisted - signature see # 2 screen shot - there are a number of these each with a different signature or printmark as it left grey or right black etc.
    3) I then created a gallery for the photos - Competition gallery. public with smart gallery settings. See #3 screen shots (two of them)
    4) Photos are then uploaded (or were when lightroom upload worked) into the appropriate signature gallery.
    5) Photos are visible to me in both the signature and competition galleries.
    6) Photos are only visible to the public in the competition galleries.
    Now that is how it worked before and so far that still appears to work - well all but the lightroom piece.
    Now comes the new smugmug. The home page collage apparently does not allow for photos that are in an unlisted gallery, which had I known, I would not have unveiled. So here is one problem.
    7) When I view the home page in either the edit or preview mode under the customize -
    The photos show and everything looks fine on the home page. - see screen shot #7
    8) When I unveiled only photos that did not get loaded into a signature unlisted gallery show. see screen shot #8
    9) Now the single photo used as the header photo - which is a photo of the teton range - which is also from the gallery national parks which means it was uploaded into a unlisted signature gallery and then using the smart gallery into the appropriate national park gallery. It shows on the client view able home page. Why is that?
    Now I have also included screen shots from my smugmug account while not logged in - in response to someone who said my photos would not show in those galleries because I uploaded them to an unlisted gallery. They do show.

    So now - the question I posed is -
    Since uploading to an unlisted gallery and using the smart gallery settings to include them in a gallery for a specific event, though they show in the client viewable gallery, are not able to be seen on the home page, making the home page WORTHLESS.
    How am I to be able to have photos in one gallery with different signatures and still have them show up on the home page?

    Hopefully I have stated this clearly and with enough examples in order for you to be able to provide the appropriate how to.

    The response I got - was to change the external gallery settings and see if that helps. Well it does not. I had already changed those based on a request to no avail.
  • awwaww Registered Users Posts: 17 Big grins
    edited August 4, 2013
    ldyhumbird wrote: »
    I posted this to the Smugmug heros -
    sorry this is so confusing.
    So starting from the top. My site - skarskiphotoarts.com.
    I will use the gallery competitions as my example.
    1) I take photos for events and due to change in backgrounds - I cannot use the same signature on all the photos for the event.
    The event's photos will go into one gallery.
    2) I created a gallery that is unlisted - signature see # 2 screen shot - there are a number of these each with a different signature or printmark as it left grey or right black etc.
    3) I then created a gallery for the photos - Competition gallery. public with smart gallery settings. See #3 screen shots (two of them)
    4) Photos are then uploaded (or were when lightroom upload worked) into the appropriate signature gallery.
    5) Photos are visible to me in both the signature and competition galleries.
    6) Photos are only visible to the public in the competition galleries.
    Now that is how it worked before and so far that still appears to work - well all but the lightroom piece.
    Now comes the new smugmug. The home page collage apparently does not allow for photos that are in an unlisted gallery, which had I known, I would not have unveiled. So here is one problem.
    7) When I view the home page in either the edit or preview mode under the customize -
    The photos show and everything looks fine on the home page. - see screen shot #7
    8) When I unveiled only photos that did not get loaded into a signature unlisted gallery show. see screen shot #8
    9) Now the single photo used as the header photo - which is a photo of the teton range - which is also from the gallery national parks which means it was uploaded into a unlisted signature gallery and then using the smart gallery into the appropriate national park gallery. It shows on the client view able home page. Why is that?
    Now I have also included screen shots from my smugmug account while not logged in - in response to someone who said my photos would not show in those galleries because I uploaded them to an unlisted gallery. They do show.

    So now - the question I posed is -
    Since uploading to an unlisted gallery and using the smart gallery settings to include them in a gallery for a specific event, though they show in the client viewable gallery, are not able to be seen on the home page, making the home page WORTHLESS.
    How am I to be able to have photos in one gallery with different signatures and still have them show up on the home page?

    Hopefully I have stated this clearly and with enough examples in order for you to be able to provide the appropriate how to.

    The response I got - was to change the external gallery settings and see if that helps. Well it does not. I had already changed those based on a request to no avail.

    See if this addresses your issue: http://dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=237259
  • jsinonjsinon Registered Users Posts: 130 Major grins
    edited August 4, 2013
    It sounds like the same type of privacy setting issue I was having. I found that no matter what I set the privacy to in the galleries I took my home page photo and logo from, because the parent folder they were in had more restrictive settings, that's how they were treated. So I created a separate folder for an unlisted galleries set to "Unlisted" That way they would still show where I wanted them.

    Hope that helped.
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