Question about clearing data (attributes) from albums/images/categories etc.

flyingdutchie

Hi David or anyone else who knows the answer

How can one programatically remove data from objects such as images/albums/categories, etc.?

Examples are:

• How can I clear the caption of an Image?
  Sending an empty string won't work, since all null or empty values will be ignored.
• How can I move an album from being under a Sub Category to just being under a Category
  E.g. its CategoryID=1 and SubCategoryID=34. But now i want to move the album to be immediately under CategoryID=1. I can not clear the SubCategoryID by sending null (or an empty string) for its value... it will be ignored.
• How can I remove a piece of data so that its Smugmug-default value is used again.
  E.g. i set BackPrinting string to some value for an Album, but i want to use the my account's Backprinting string again. I can not send null or an empty string...

Thanks!
-- Anton Spaans.

devbobo

Dutchie, as below...

flyingdutchie wrote:

• How can I clear the caption of an Image?
  Sending an empty string won't work, since all null or empty values will be ignored.

/?method=smugmug.images.changeSettings&ImageID=xxx&Caption=

flyingdutchie wrote:

• How can I move an album from being under a Sub Category to just being under a Category
  E.g. its CategoryID=1 and SubCategoryID=34. But now i want to move the album to be immediately under CategoryID=1. I can not clear the SubCategoryID by sending null (or an empty string) for its value... it will be ignored.

SubCategoryID=0

flyingdutchie wrote:

• How can I remove a piece of data so that its Smugmug-default value is used again.
  E.g. i set BackPrinting string to some value for an Album, but i want to use the my account's Backprinting string again. I can not send null or an empty string...

/?method=smugmug.albums.changeSettings&AlbumID=xxx&Backprinting=