Reserved words

BigRed · September 21, 2015

Are there any reserved words in New Smugmug (folder/gallery/page names, keywords, etc.)? If so, are they documented somewhere? For example, could I name a root folder "Galleries" or "Photo Galleries" (initial caps)?

denisegoldberg · September 21, 2015

I believe the SmugMug system pages all start with lower-case letters. For a list, see http://school.smugmug.com/SmugMug-Tips/Customize-Your-System-Pages. These pages will only open using the lower-case starting letter.

While our folder and gallery names are forced to start with an upper-case letter, typing the url with the lower-case letter works as long as you aren't using the same word as a system page. For example, http://www.denisegoldberg.com/Kaleidoscope and http://www.denisegoldberg.com/kaleidoscope take the viewer to the same page.

--- Denise

Allen · September 21, 2015

There are a few system pages. lower case all
/popular
/search
/keyword
/date
etc.

In Old Smug there were some default category names but not in NewSmug

leftquark · September 22, 2015

Denise and Allen nailed it .. as always, they're so quick and correct!

WinsomeWorks · September 22, 2015

It would be nice to see the exact list of all the reserved words. The OP asked if there was a complete list somewhere.

leftquark wrote: »

Denise and Allen nailed it .. as always, they're so quick and correct!

leftquark · September 22, 2015

WinsomeWorks wrote: »

It would be nice to see the exact list of all the reserved words. The OP asked if there was a complete list somewhere.

As Denise pointed out, all galleries names start with an Uppercase letter. Anything "reserved", SmugMug includes with a lowercase. In other words: there are no reserved words since we take care of it by the case of the first letter.

Additionally, our help pages, also as Denise linked, are usually the best resource to go to for things like this!

WinsomeWorks · September 22, 2015

Right, but we'd still like to know what they are so far, because most of us would like to avoid using those words in our titles so that there's never confusion over upper / lower case. Does this mean that FB (etc) links back to galleries that originally had lowercase beginning letters (especially if they contain now-reserved words) are broken? (I'm talking about if we did the "Publish to FB" option using Old Smug in which we chose the link-back to go to the original gallery rather than each original photo).

leftquark wrote: »

As Denise pointed out, all galleries names start with an Uppercase letter. Anything "reserved", SmugMug includes with a lowercase. In other words: there are no reserved words since we take care of it by the case of the first letter.

Additionally, our help pages, also as Denise linked, are usually the best resource to go to for things like this!

leftquark · September 22, 2015

WinsomeWorks wrote: »

Right, but we'd still like to know what they are so far

Please see the help page that Denise posted above. I don't want to copy and paste the Help page because information on DGrin can become stale or old. The help pages always contain the most up to date information.

phaserbeam · September 22, 2015

leftquark wrote: »

Please see the help page that Denise posted above. I don't want to copy and paste the Help page because information on DGrin can become stale or old. The help pages always contain the most up to date information.

This list is not complete

There is another reserved keyword not yet listed on the help page: customize

I can create a gallery or folder named like Customize. Because of Uppergate (URLS are Upper/lower case sensitive...) if someone vistis url/Customize he will see the photos but if he types url/customize (lower case 'C') he will not be redirected to the correct URL (see the example from denisegoldberg), he will see the smugmug website instead.

The redirection is just a workaround because it only works for the first letter. Means real url/KaleidoScope is different to url/kaleidoscope and does not even match url/Kaleidoscope.

I don't really care at the moment, i have shut down my whole site. But maybe SmugMug want to add customize to the list of reserved keywords/URLs.

leftquark · September 22, 2015

As each of you has pointed out, using URL's are case sensitive. The fact that we force all of your galleries to have an uppercase letter means that there are no official reserved words. You can use all of the words that we use and those will work just fine, though your visitors, if they're manually typing in the URL, will need to make sure they are case sensitive.

phaserbeam · September 22, 2015

leftquark wrote: »

You can use all of the words that we use and those will work just fine, though your visitors, if they're manually typing in the URL, will need to make sure they are case sensitive.

Well.. this will bring us back to the old discussion about case sensitive URLs...

Right now i can type kaleidoscope instead of the correct URL Kaleidoscope (see example from denise) but this does not work for Customize. Without the SmugMug workaround for the first letter this would be true, visitors need to type the correct URL... but with the workaround using lower case c for customize would not redirect me to the correct URL but would redirect me for the kaleidoscope example.

leftquark · September 22, 2015

There may be more, but here's a pretty good list of folder or gallery names that will not redirect properly if a user enters a lowercase first letter:

date
keyword
password
popular
search
browse
customize
organize
client
sales
homepage
settings
login
logout
help
prints
about
dashboard

BigRed · October 12, 2015

OK, so I avoided all the reserved words. But it appears that the lower-case-redirect-to-upper-case-URL only works with GALLERY names -- not FOLDERS. For example, http://www.janicebrowne.com/photo-galleries hits my (customized) 404 page instead of http://www.janicebrowne.com/Photo-Galleries. Is this a bug?

From this 2014 thread:

rainforest1155 wrote: »

...If there is no system page by the same url, we'll redirect to the user folder, gallery or page. So to go with your example:
/local-Events
would go to:
/Local-Events

CORRECTION: The redirect seems to work with galleries, folders, and pages equally. What confused me originally is that only the first letter of the name is modified (which is the only letter that must be capitalized in the actual name/URL). The rest of the "custom URL" is strictly case sensitive. So "photo-Galleries" does redirect to "Photo-Galleries" -- even though "photo-galleries" does not. While I'd prefer to see case sensitivity removed altogether, at least I understand how it works.

agallia · October 12, 2015

leftquark wrote: »

There may be more, but here's a pretty good list of folder or gallery names that will not redirect properly if a user enters a lowercase first letter:

date
keyword
password
popular
search
browse
customize
organize
client
sales
homepage
settings
login
logout
help
prints
about
dashboard

Thanks for info. Is this list in the Help somewhere?

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