random thumbnailed feature photo - only drawn from 1 gallery?

[wrollins]

Greetings everyone :D

I had inquired about this sometime ago, but figured it might be worth asking again....

Could it be possible for the thumbnail for a category to be pulled from ALL the gallery albums (including those within sub categories) instead of just the most recent? depending on your organization this can REALLY limit a viewer's experience....

As an example:

Sports (category) 5 galleries with 100 photos
---- Football (subcategory) 2 galleries with 20 photos
--------- Football Game #1 (gallery album) <-contains 2 photos
--------- Football Game #2 (gallery album) <-contains 18 photos
---- Basketball (subcategory) 2 galleries with 40 photos
--------- Basketball Game #1 (gallery album) <-contains 20 photos
--------- Basketball Game #2 (gallery album) <-contains 20 photos
---- Hockey (subcategory) 1 gallery with 40 photos
--------- Hockey Game #1 (gallery album) <- contains 40 photos


The Sports category above will currently ONLY display a random thumbnail of 1 of the 2 photos from the Football Game #1 gallery. This neglects 98% of the other photos contained in the entire category!!!

I have no idea what code on SM's side is used to call the thumbnail, but I wouldn't imagine it would be terribly difficult to include this.

Any help or thoughts? :dunno

Thanks!

[Baldy]

Hi Bill,

Unfortunately, I think the honest answer is anything's possible but...the number of high-priority things we have going at the moment makes this hard to get to.

I wish I had a better answer for you.

All the best,
Chris

[wrollins]

Baldy,

Thanks for your quick reply... (sorry for my delayed response!)

I suppose I can sit back and let some of the bigger issues be worked on and go hide out for awhile... :flush

Just thought I'd mention it because it has bothered me for sometime, but no worries though. It's certainly not a showstopper. But I'm sure I'll bring this back to the surface in a few more months :wink

Cheers everyone.

[wrollins]

well i said i would drop back in again, and it's been a few months... so here i am :D

i realize there are obviously always going to be bigger issues, but i just wanted the SM group to know i'm still keeping my fingers crossed :wink

thanks guys!

[wrollins]

Hey Everyone,

Me again. Just de-lurking for another moment to bump my eternal request back to daylight from the depths of the forum :thumb

I'm sure there will always be bigger and higher priority issues to be addressed, but I figure that as a smugmug customer I have a voice and might as well use it, right?

Anyways, keep on making smugmug great. I always enjoy the new enhancements, just adding my own wishes here to make it even better!

Thanks.

[ClubFlys]

I gotta bring this one back to light!

Shortly after starting to "really" use my SmugMug account, I too realized the way random category and subcategory images only pull from the first album and disregards the rest of the albums.

I would love to see all albums included in the randomization for a category and subcategory thumbnail.

I would like to also be able to use a random thumnail urls for a category and subcategory as we can for albums.

[darryl]

*Bump*

[Andy]

*Bump*
It's an FR, Baldy's acknowledged it :D I'm sorry we don't have more to say on it.