Hide Individual Photos in a Gallery - is it working correctly?

beardedgit

This isn't a bug , I'm just looking for confirmation, preferably from someone at SM, that "Hide Individual Photos in a Gallery" is working as it should be in New SM. It's item 3 below that I'm unsure about, I've found nothing yet in the help portal that defines how that bit is supposed to behave:

This is how it's working for me:

1. If I hide a pic (Tools > Organize > Hide) the affected pic is visible to me when I'm logged in - in the gallery it is greyed-out (with the line-through-eye icon shown), and I can still click it to see it in Lightbox, where it's not greyed-out and there's no eye icon. When I'm logged-out, the pic isn't displayed at all. No problem with all that.
2. While in Lightbox (and logged in) if I try to get a link (Share > Get a Link) it tells me "This photo is hidden, and not shareable" and so no link is available. No problem with that either.
3. However, if I hide a photo that I've previously shared (embedded externally in a blog), that photo is still available externally and displays there as if it isn't hidden.

Is this how it's supposed to work?

Whatever the answer, could the page that I linked to be amended to say what's supposed to happen when hiding pics that have already been embedded externally, please?

TIA!

The Mechanic

Hello,

It sounds like your examples are all working correctly. Hiding the image of a previously externally embedded image should not affect the embedded image. It will change what is seen in the gallery but that is it. To remove this from an embedded location turn external links to off.

Please note these tools are the same in Legacy or the New SmugMug. The New SmugMug not just shows the icons on the hidden images in the gallery to make it easier to see these hidden images as the admin.

-Scott

Allen

You can also break the external linked photo by "make a copy" and delete original.

beardedgit

The Mechanic wrote: »

Hello,

It sounds like your examples are all working correctly. Hiding the image of a previously externally embedded image should not affect the embedded image. It will change what is seen in the gallery but that is it. To remove this from an embedded location turn external links to off.

Please note these tools are the same in Legacy or the New SmugMug. The New SmugMug not just shows the icons on the hidden images in the gallery to make it easier to see these hidden images as the admin.

-Scott

Thanks, Scott. Now I can confidently hide a few gallery pics and not have bemused visitors to my blog. I wasn't entirely sure about that before, especially as the help portal page that I linked to warns about hiding the bio and/or header pics.

beardedgit

Allen wrote: »

You can also break the external linked photo by "make a copy" and delete original.

Yeah, I found out too late about that - I made a copy, decided that I didn't need it, and accidentally deleted the wrong one. It would have helped if the process of copying had either incremented the "version" digit in the link or had appended something like "copy" to the filename but hey ho, it didn't, I had a flap and got it wrong. A lesson learned.

Allen

beardedgit wrote: »

Yeah, I found out too late about that - I made a copy, decided that I didn't need it, and accidentally deleted the wrong one. It would have helped if the process of copying had either incremented the "version" digit in the link or had appended something like "copy" to the filename but hey ho, it didn't, I had a flap and got it wrong. A lesson learned.

I found I had to look and remember the photo key of the original so I knew which was which.
The photo number also increased but NewSmug doesn't show the number.

beardedgit

Just a quickie - was my request for help-portal page amendment noted? Or even noticed?

beardedgit

I guess the answer's "no".