riggers

Sorry for the extra questions but I wonder if you can recommend the best workflow for importing? My set up is as follows:

I edit photos in Lightroom (RAW) and then publish them from Lightroom to a folder on my hard drive which matches the name of the album I’ve created in WPPA. E.g. I have an album called landscapes and I publish to a folder called landscapes. I then use SmartFTP to upload these to the depot folder (keeping the folder structure within the depot folder).

Then I use the import function and set the source directory to be the sub folder I uploaded for the album e..g. …depot\landscapes. Then I set the default album to e.g. landscapes and then I click import (or update).

Please can you let me know if there is a better way to do this.

Oh I see. I had not appreciated the depot is just a temporary area for the duration of the import. So for all those pictures (and sub folders) I’ve imported already should I just delete them via my FTP access?

Ok I just found the new Featured photo function. This is nice but would it be possible to have an option for the POTD to just use featured photos?

Sorry for not replying more quickly.

Having thought about it I think option a above would do the job nicely for me because that way I can display the top rated material really easily and I also have a way to ensure photos rated e.g. 1 or 2 are not displayed.

In terms of a Virtual Album, I just found the option in Album Admin to copy selected pictures to a different album so I would think this option would solve this niceley. The only downside maybe if you are actually creating a physical copy when we use this function as that would obviously affect disk space. I assume you don’t do that and just create a virtual copy in the new album.

Yes I’ve found the setting for limiting the number of top ten. I’ve set it to 50 to be sure any picture I allocate a rating too are shown on the slideshow on my home page.

I want to be able to easily change which photos are included / excluded from this virtual album. Maybe an additional album function can be provided called ‘virtual album’ whereby you can allocate some SQL to say what will be included / excluded. I can imagine the user front end stuff to support that would be quite hard work so hopefully something simpler is possible.

I would think it would be quite a useful feature to be able to have a virtual album – basically all your favourite pics – in a slideshow on your front page as it’s a great way to show off your work. But it is the sort of thing you need to be able to adjust quite often.

Ok, I’ve got it working nicely now. I just needed to select the ‘update’ switch when importing as you said earlier.

A pal of mine helped me fix it and by editing the file wppa-style.css with the single line marked z-index as follows:

/* Slideshow */
.slide-frame {
	position: relative;
	width: 100%;
	padding: 0 !important;
        z-index: 1; /* This line of code is what fixed the z-index problem between lightbox and the slideshow! */
}

Is that what you meant?