Album Cover

agusalsa

Joined: 2014-03-21
Posts: 18

Posted: Mon, 2014-03-24 16:35

Do I have to set an album cover manually? I just created a new album as a user and uploaded some pictures but the album cover still blank. Is this about permissions? Thank you in advance. (when create albums as admin it takes one of the images as a cover automatically)

spags

Joined: 2010-03-26
Posts: 120

Posted: Mon, 2014-03-24 20:40

A cover will get selected automatically (randomly I assume).

The image it selected may just happened to not have generated the thumbnail correctly. There is a maintenance task to rebuild dirty images - I'd start by giving that a try and see if it helps. It is in the Admin menu, then Maintenance. The one you want is Rebuild Images, which hopefully shows some images need attention.

Failing this, you can manually select the cover. From memory, you navigate down to the desired image and one of the menu options for it is called something like Select album cover (or something of that nature).

agusalsa

Joined: 2014-03-21
Posts: 18

Posted: Tue, 2014-03-25 01:41

Thank you Spags It worked.

agusalsa

Joined: 2014-03-21
Posts: 18

Posted: Tue, 2014-03-25 04:28

Well, It worked for a while, when admin upload images to a new album it assign a cover automatically, when users upload images to an album the admin have to select a cover manually. Thats may be caused for the "Gallery3:Modules:square thumbs" I installed.

floridave

Joined: 2003-12-22
Posts: 27300

Posted: Tue, 2014-03-25 04:38

Album covers are first chosen by the first item added. Subsequent items they are not changed. That is by design.
If you want to have the most recent item added be the album highlight you can use the http://codex.galleryproject.org/Gallery3:Modules:recent_album_highlight

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the admin have to select a cover manually.

The user can as well (if they have edit permissions).

There is also two other modules in regards to album highlights:
http://codex.galleryproject.org/Gallery3:Modules:random_album_highlight & http://codex.galleryproject.org/Gallery3:Modules:album_cover_browser

Dave
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agusalsa

Joined: 2014-03-21
Posts: 18

Posted: Tue, 2014-03-25 15:07

Hi all, there seems to be an error because in new albums if the image is uploaded by the administrator then cover is filled automatically, but if a user upload a photo on a new album the cover stays blank. I will try those modules you recommend. Thank you.

agusalsa Joined: 2014-03-21 Posts: 18	Posted: Mon, 2014-03-24 16:35
	Do I have to set an album cover manually? I just created a new album as a user and uploaded some pictures but the album cover still blank. Is this about permissions? Thank you in advance. (when create albums as admin it takes one of the images as a cover automatically)
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spags Joined: 2010-03-26 Posts: 120	Posted: Mon, 2014-03-24 20:40
	A cover will get selected automatically (randomly I assume). The image it selected may just happened to not have generated the thumbnail correctly. There is a maintenance task to rebuild dirty images - I'd start by giving that a try and see if it helps. It is in the Admin menu, then Maintenance. The one you want is Rebuild Images, which hopefully shows some images need attention. Failing this, you can manually select the cover. From memory, you navigate down to the desired image and one of the menu options for it is called something like Select album cover (or something of that nature).

agusalsa Joined: 2014-03-21 Posts: 18	Posted: Tue, 2014-03-25 01:41
	Thank you Spags It worked.

agusalsa Joined: 2014-03-21 Posts: 18	Posted: Tue, 2014-03-25 04:28
	Well, It worked for a while, when admin upload images to a new album it assign a cover automatically, when users upload images to an album the admin have to select a cover manually. Thats may be caused for the "Gallery3:Modules:square thumbs" I installed.

floridave Joined: 2003-12-22 Posts: 27300	Posted: Tue, 2014-03-25 04:38
	Album covers are first chosen by the first item added. Subsequent items they are not changed. That is by design. If you want to have the most recent item added be the album highlight you can use the http://codex.galleryproject.org/Gallery3:Modules:recent_album_highlight Quote: the admin have to select a cover manually. The user can as well (if they have edit permissions). There is also two other modules in regards to album highlights: http://codex.galleryproject.org/Gallery3:Modules:random_album_highlight & http://codex.galleryproject.org/Gallery3:Modules:album_cover_browser Dave _____________________________________________ Blog & G2 \|\| floridave - Gallery Team

agusalsa Joined: 2014-03-21 Posts: 18	Posted: Tue, 2014-03-25 15:07
	Hi all, there seems to be an error because in new albums if the image is uploaded by the administrator then cover is filled automatically, but if a user upload a photo on a new album the cover stays blank. I will try those modules you recommend. Thank you.

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