David,
do you think you can email me an update on CreateImage maybe prior to midday Saturday Pacific Time (GMT-8). Then I'll have good chances actually implementing all this CreateImage stuff over this weekend and make John happy again..
Actually, even simple header/interface snippets (in any language or even prseudo-code notation) will do...
Ta, mate!
is this ok, this is the output of smugmug.albumtemplates.get, it should show u all the relevent album settings...
The following features were finally added to album creation:
Backprinting
Password Hint
Hide Owner
Default Color
Geography
Allow Ranking
Proof Days
Hello, Smug!
Hello, World!
Also, it turned out the password was not set properly when creating new album. Fixed.
Thank you John and David!
Thanks Nik. I'm back in business using StarExplorer to create galleries for me, particularly when I need to create a bunch of them all with the same settings.
One setting I did not see in the new dialog is the "Printable" setting. It defaults to on which is what I usually want, but thought I'd mention it.
Also some of your labels left me unsure what they meant. For example, you use "Default Color" when "True Color" would have been much clearer to me. I had to create a test gallery and see what gallery customization showed before I knew what you meant with "default color".
The option for "Display Custom Header" still has me confused. I checked it thinking that this would allow display of my own header, but the gallery seems to show the opposite in the customize gallery settings after creating one. I'm still confused on that.
Also some of your labels left me unsure what they meant. For example, you use "Default Color" when "True Color" would have been much clearer to me. I had to create a test gallery and see what gallery customization showed before I knew what you meant with "default color".
Yeah, that... That's the name of the actual API parameter... I was in a rush to get them ready and prolly didn't think good enough... I will check it and rephrase...
The option for "Display Custom Header" still has me confused. I checked it thinking that this would allow display of my own header, but the gallery seems to show the opposite in the customize gallery settings after creating one. I'm still confused on that.
default color: true (1, yes) or Auto (0, no)
header: SmugMug (1, yes) or Custom (0, no)
Thanks, man, much obliged!
Couple more things:
1) there is a watermarking parameter, but is there a watermaking index/name, and a way to get those via API?
2) same about communities - how do I get the names for the indexes?
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Being the only commercial tool on the otherwise totally freeware market is not easy, but S*E goes strong, featuring both comprehensive and unique feature set. Upload and download, lightning-fast searches, MS-Office-compatible data structures, sales analytics... Check for yourself and see why the users say "your app rocks"
I'd like to thank all the users and promoters for letting S*E grow!
Star*Explorer just crossed another threshold. Its faithful statcounter gauge is now gaining the last 10K towards 100,000 hits, as well as the user count steadily goes toward 500 (S*E current user base is 440-odd).
Being the only commercial tool on the otherwise totally freeware market is not easy, but S*E goes strong, featuring both comprehensive and unique feature set. Upload and download, lightning-fast searches, MS-Office-compatible data structures, sales analytics... Check for yourself and see why the users say "your app rocks"
I'd like to thank all the users and promoters for letting S*E grow!
Had a chance to use mine for at least a month now. It really makes keeping things organized, uploading, and creating new albums easy. Nice tool for SmugMuggers.
Had a chance to use mine for at least a month now. It really makes keeping things organized, uploading, and creating new albums easy. Nice tool for SmugMuggers.
Most recent upload
Just wanted to share the results of one recent upload I did.
I was slacking with online backup and finally decided to do it.
To catch up I had to create ~50 albums and upload ~2,500 images, totalling ~1.9Gb.
OK, I launched S*E, selected the category, dropped my root folder containing all those images, waited a few seconds while S*E acknowledged all the images are OK, pressed Upload button - and went on with my usual chores...
Yes, even very good connections can be lost. I lost mine 3 times. But since the S*E queue is persistent, nothing else was lost, and I didn't have to go through adding files over and over again. Each time it was simply a matter of hitting Upload button again, and getting back on with my life.
S*E v.174: Image Level keywords
Now that API caught up, this old S*E functionality has been re-enabled in the UI. :-)
I'm on the fence adding Geotags UI items, since I think it's beneficial to add them directly to EXIF and I don't currently have reasonable means to facilitate any map-based lookup. Let me know if you have some serious need for them.
I'm having a bit of a problem with my SE. Maybe it's just the way I'm using it
Here's what's happening:
1) Create a new album // works great
2) Upload photos // works great
3) Create another album // not so good here
At this point, SE fails to create the album and tells me it failed and to check the log.
Here's what the log says:
0:08:56: Finished Uploading (0:07:41)
0:09:04: Started Creating test in Other
0:09:04: Started Creating album: test
0:09:14: RPC-XML: (-1)
0:09:14: Finished Creating album: test (0:00:09)
0:09:14: Trying to re-login
0:09:14: Started Creating album: test
0:09:23: RPC-XML: (-1)
0:09:23: Finished Creating album: test (0:00:09)
0:11:25: Finished Creating test in Other (0:02:20)
I'm having a bit of a problem with my SE. Maybe it's just the way I'm using it
Here's what's happening:
Looks like you've lost a connection for whatever reason. Please try manual File-Disconnect, then File-Connect and then creation.
I hope this does not happen every time?
Looks like you've lost a connection for whatever reason. Please try manual File-Disconnect, then File-Connect and then creation.
I hope this does not happen every time?
I can duplicate this problem every time. I have not tried it from home. I'll give it a try at lunch today. Maybe it has something to do with the firewall at work? I would think that unlikely.
I can duplicate this problem every time. I have not tried it from home. I'll give it a try at lunch today. Maybe it has something to do with the firewall at work? I would think that unlikely.
Cheers
Wow, that's a first, never heard of such thing on consistent basis.
PLease shoot me an email with your next results to support@starexplorer.com.
Thanks!
Changing hosts
I'm in process of changing hosting companies. MySiteSpace turned out to be a royal PITA, so I've opted for apparently more reliable GoDaddy. Brief service interruption is possible, for which I sincerely apologize. Hopefully this all will be over ina day or two.
Nik, I'm having trouble uploading. Keep getting an invalid album ID error. I do all of my album set ups through SE but thought maybe I needed to resynch. So I did a resynch synch tree for My Smugmug. Still get the same error.
New host should be active
If you visit www.starexplorer.com and do not see the red warning on the top of the home page - you're in:-)
Otherwise it means that your DNS has not been updated yet (but it will be soon:-)
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is this ok, this is the output of smugmug.albumtemplates.get, it should show u all the relevent album settings...
<rsp stat="ok">
<method>smugmug.albumtemplates.get</method>
<AlbumTemplates>
<AlbumTemplate id="2">
<AlbumTemplateName>smugmug default</AlbumTemplateName>
<Template id="0" />
<Highlight id="0" />
<Community id="0" />
<SortMethod>Position</SortMethod>
<SortDirection>0</SortDirection>
<Public>1</Public>
<Password />
<Printable>1</Printable>
<Header>0</Header>
<Filenames>0</Filenames>
<Comments>1</Comments>
<External>1</External>
<Originals>1</Originals>
<Larges>1</Larges>
<Clean>0</Clean>
<EXIF>1</EXIF>
<Share>1</Share>
<Protected>0</Protected>
<Watermark>0</Watermark>
<FriendEdit>0</FriendEdit>
<FamilyEdit>0</FamilyEdit>
<HideOwner>0</HideOwner>
<DefaultColor>1</DefaultColor>
<Geography>1</Geography>
<CanRank>1</CanRank>
<ProofDays>0</ProofDays>
<Backprinting />
<SmugSearchable>1</SmugSearchable>
<WorldSearchable>1</WorldSearchable>
</AlbumTemplate>
</AlbumTemplates>
</rsp>
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So, these are the same identical tags as in create/change album, correct?
yes...and the same tags return from smugmug.albums.getInfo
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My Photos
The following features were finally added to album creation:
- Backprinting
- Password Hint
- Hide Owner
- Default Color
- Geography
- Allow Ranking
- Proof Days
- Hello, Smug!
- Hello, World!
Also, it turned out the password was not set properly when creating new album. Fixed.Thank you John and David!
Thanks Nik. I'm back in business using StarExplorer to create galleries for me, particularly when I need to create a bunch of them all with the same settings.
One setting I did not see in the new dialog is the "Printable" setting. It defaults to on which is what I usually want, but thought I'd mention it.
Also some of your labels left me unsure what they meant. For example, you use "Default Color" when "True Color" would have been much clearer to me. I had to create a test gallery and see what gallery customization showed before I knew what you meant with "default color".
The option for "Display Custom Header" still has me confused. I checked it thinking that this would allow display of my own header, but the gallery seems to show the opposite in the customize gallery settings after creating one. I'm still confused on that.
Anyway, thanks for adding these.
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It's been there since day one, called Allow Print Ordering..:-)
Yeah, that... That's the name of the actual API parameter... I was in a rush to get them ready and prolly didn't think good enough... I will check it and rephrase...
Uhm.. dunno myself... David, help?
You're welcome!
default color: true (1, yes) or Auto (0, no)
header: SmugMug (1, yes) or Custom (0, no)
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OK, I see the print ordering option now. Don't know why I missed that one.
Based on David's answer, it looks like the "[X] Display Custom Header" checkbox might be reversed.
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Thanks, man, much obliged!
Couple more things:
1) there is a watermarking parameter, but is there a watermaking index/name, and a way to get those via API?
2) same about communities - how do I get the names for the indexes?
TIA!
I've just made internal changes:
Default color ============> [x] True Color
Display custom header =====> [x] Smugmug Header
It's too minor a change to deploy a new build, but it will sure make the next release, whatever it will be...
HTH
Sounds good.
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Being the only commercial tool on the otherwise totally freeware market is not easy, but S*E goes strong, featuring both comprehensive and unique feature set. Upload and download, lightning-fast searches, MS-Office-compatible data structures, sales analytics...
Check for yourself and see why the users say "your app rocks"
I'd like to thank all the users and promoters for letting S*E grow!
Had a chance to use mine for at least a month now. It really makes keeping things organized, uploading, and creating new albums easy. Nice tool for SmugMuggers.
My Photos
My Facebook
Just wanted to share the results of one recent upload I did.
I was slacking with online backup and finally decided to do it.
To catch up I had to create ~50 albums and upload ~2,500 images, totalling ~1.9Gb.
OK, I launched S*E, selected the category, dropped my root folder containing all those images, waited a few seconds while S*E acknowledged all the images are OK, pressed Upload button - and went on with my usual chores...
Yes, even very good connections can be lost. I lost mine 3 times. But since the S*E queue is persistent, nothing else was lost, and I didn't have to go through adding files over and over again. Each time it was simply a matter of hitting Upload button again, and getting back on with my life.
Now I'm all caught up :-)
And on iffy connections like using Comcast and a firewall, S*E is a lifesaver!
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Now that API caught up, this old S*E functionality has been re-enabled in the UI. :-)
I'm on the fence adding Geotags UI items, since I think it's beneficial to add them directly to EXIF and I don't currently have reasonable means to facilitate any map-based lookup. Let me know if you have some serious need for them.
Here's what's happening:
1) Create a new album // works great
2) Upload photos // works great
3) Create another album // not so good here
At this point, SE fails to create the album and tells me it failed and to check the log.
Here's what the log says:
0:08:56: Finished Uploading (0:07:41)
0:09:04: Started Creating test in Other
0:09:04: Started Creating album: test
0:09:14: RPC-XML: (-1)
0:09:14: Finished Creating album: test (0:00:09)
0:09:14: Trying to re-login
0:09:14: Started Creating album: test
0:09:23: RPC-XML: (-1)
0:09:23: Finished Creating album: test (0:00:09)
0:11:25: Finished Creating test in Other (0:02:20)
is it something I'm doing? or is this a bug?
Cheers
I hope this does not happen every time?
Cheers
PLease shoot me an email with your next results to support@starexplorer.com.
Thanks!
I'm in process of changing hosting companies. MySiteSpace turned out to be a royal PITA, so I've opted for apparently more reliable GoDaddy. Brief service interruption is possible, for which I sincerely apologize. Hopefully this all will be over ina day or two.
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Soory about this! I had a few troubles myself this morning, prolly a "weekend issue"
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If you visit www.starexplorer.com and do not see the red warning on the top of the home page - you're in:-)
Otherwise it means that your DNS has not been updated yet (but it will be soon:-)
New Facebook user group has been created for S*E users to express and share their experience, concerns and success stories. :ivar