Random Category Change

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I have had great trouble and tribulations with my site today Feb 5. (http://eworley.smugmug.com). Every time I go to the site I get a different random arrangement of my private galleries in the categories named (other and Densons). In addition a category named "Denson Family" that I have tried to delete keeps coming back.

I am at the end of my rope. The worst thing that one can have in working with a computer system is random action.

Please help.

devbobo

eworley wrote:

I have had great trouble and tribulations with my site today Feb 5. (http://eworley.smugmug.com). Every time I go to the site I get a different random arrangement of my private galleries in the categories named (other and Densons). In addition a category named "Denson Family" that I have tried to delete keeps coming back.

I am at the end of my rope. The worst thing that one can have in working with a computer system is random action.

Please help.

Hi Eugene,

In regard to the random category ordering that you are seeing, are you uploading photos in between visits ? If so, the reason for this behaviour is the default category ordering being set to "most recent". So if you upload a photo to a category, next you go to ur website, that category will be the first one.

Alternatively, you can set the category ordering to "Position (Arrange)" where you order the categories as you want them.

Hope this helps,

David

System

devbobo wrote:

Hi Eugene,

In regard to the random category ordering that you are seeing, are you uploading photos in between visits ? If so, the reason for this behaviour is the default category ordering being set to "most recent". So if you upload a photo to a category, next you go to ur website, that category will be the first one.

Alternatively, you can set the category ordering to "Position (Arrange)" where you order the categories as you want them.

Hope this helps,

David

Thanks, but I am not uploading photos at all. I am merely trying to assign gallaries. But I cannot do that. In fact every time I refresh the page they are assigned to a different category -- alternating between "other" and "Densons". Sometimes i will have multiple instances of "other" saying there are multiple gallaries contained. But when I click on one of the "other" I only see one gallaries.

This situation is making SMUGMUG completely unuseable in the extreme!!!

Eugene

System

devbobo wrote:

Hi Eugene,

In regard to the random category ordering that you are seeing, are you uploading photos in between visits ? If so, the reason for this behaviour is the default category ordering being set to "most recent". So if you upload a photo to a category, next you go to ur website, that category will be the first one.

Alternatively, you can set the category ordering to "Position (Arrange)" where you order the categories as you want them.

Hope this helps,

David

Let me be clearer. I am not talking at all about the order in which galleries are presented. rather and much more importantly I am talking about there appearing random galleries in some of my categories. And the arrangement of galleries changes every time I refresh. Not the order, under what category galleries are contained. I, therefore, have no control of what my site looks like and have no control of the galleries in categories. In fact sometimes I see three(3) "other" categories.

I don't know whether this is clearer or not, but what I am seeing is weird squared!!!!

Please can someone help??

Eugene

Andy

eworley wrote:

Please can someone help??

Eugene

Eugene,

Try again now. Your issue may be related to a small fix that Onethumb made earlier.

Let us know.

Andy

System

Andy wrote:

Eugene,

Try again now. Your issue may be related to a small fix that Onethumb made earlier.

Let us know.

Andy

Thanks for trying, but I am not sure that the problem has gone away. Now the private galleries (that were supposed to be in the category "Densons") do seem to be there now, but when I and not logged in and try to go to the URL http://eworley.smugmug.com/Densons I get a message that "No galleries found". What is going on here?

Eugene

devbobo

eworley wrote:

Thanks for trying, but I am not sure that the problem has gone away. Now the private galleries (that were supposed to be in the category "Densons") do seem to be there now, but when I and not logged in and try to go to the URL http://eworley.smugmug.com/Densons I get a message that "No galleries found". What is going on here?

Eugene

Eugene,

The operation you described is correct. If you want people to have access via the category url, you need to make the galleries public and hide the category from the front page using this method

David

System

devbobo wrote:

Eugene,

The operation you described is correct. If you want people to have access via the category url, you need to make the galleries public and hide the category from the front page using this method

David

OK what do you mean "use this method"?

Sorry that I don't understand!

Eugene

Andy

eworley wrote:

Thanks for trying, but I am not sure that the problem has gone away. Now the private galleries (that were supposed to be in the category "Densons") do seem to be there now, but when I and not logged in and try to go to the URL http://eworley.smugmug.com/Densons I get a message that "No galleries found". What is going on here?

Eugene

Use Devbobo's trick, or share the galleries like this:

http://eworley.smugmug.com/gallery/XXXXXX

If all the galleries are private, the category link
http://eworley.smugmug.com/Densons

Will show with "no galleries found" As intended.

Andy

Eugene,

You can further customize your site by hiding the SmugMug header and footer

See my FAQ for how to do it.

devbobo

eworley wrote:

OK what do you mean "use this method"?

Sorry that I don't understand!

Eugene

Eugene,

If you add this code to your javascript block, it will automatically remove the Densons category from your homepage.....

addEvent(window, "load", delCategory);

function delCategory()
{
  re = /\.smugmug\.com\/Densons/;
  divTag = document.getElementById("homepage");

  if (divTag)
  {
    divTags = divTag.getElementsByTagName("div");
    for (i=0; i<divTags.length; i++)
    {
      if (divTags[i].className == "miniBox")
      {
        if (re.test(divTags[i].innerHTML))
          divTags[i].parentNode.removeChild(divTags[i]);
      }
    }
  }
}

System

Thank you very much!! That works as advertised.

I am sorry for panicking earlier. I was getting all of those random errors with the galleries popping in and out of my Category = Densons and into and out of Category = Other. It then seemed to me that the whole thing was coming apart at the seams and I was fixing to loose my photos. Then when the private command didn't work like I thought I had read, incorrectly I must say, then I was sure that it was coming apart.

But thanks for your kind patience and help. I am ready now to get back into customizing my site.

Eugene

devbobo

That's cool Eugene. Glad it worked out for you.

devbobo

BTW, I love ur galleries of Antartic. Some really amazing stuff there !!

How did u get such an opportunity ? My uncle spent a year down there in '75 with the Australian Army.

David

System

devbobo wrote:

BTW, I love ur galleries of Antartic. Some really amazing stuff there !!

How did u get such an opportunity ? My uncle spent a year down there in '75 with the Australian Army.

David

I went to Antarctica last December with Michael Reichman on a digital photgraphic expedition. We were on a small ship (only about 40 passengers) totally dedicated to digital photography. We had some digital photo heavies on board (I was not one of them by a long shot). We had a spectacular time. He is taking another expedition in 2007 with the same instructors that were on our expedition. You can read about it at http://www.luminous-landscape.com/workshops/antarctic-workshop-07.shtml

Thanks again for all of the great help. I am SmugMug fan as I grow in understanding the power that is available.

Have a good day.

Eugene