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  • devbobodevbobo Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 4,339 SmugMug Employee
    edited June 15, 2007
    Nikolai wrote:
    David,
    do you think you can email me an update on CreateImage maybe prior to midday Saturday Pacific Time (GMT-8). Then I'll have good chances actually implementing all this CreateImage stuff over this weekend and make John happy again..mwink.gif
    Actually, even simple header/interface snippets (in any language or even prseudo-code notation) will do...
    Ta, mate! thumb.gif

    is this ok, this is the output of smugmug.albumtemplates.get, it should show u all the relevent album settings...

    <rsp stat="ok">
    <method>smugmug.albumtemplates.get</method>
    <AlbumTemplates>
    <AlbumTemplate id="2">
    <AlbumTemplateName>smugmug default</AlbumTemplateName>
    <Template id="0" />
    <Highlight id="0" />
    <Community id="0" />

    <SortMethod>Position</SortMethod>
    <SortDirection>0</SortDirection>
    <Public>1</Public>
    <Password />
    <Printable>1</Printable>
    <Header>0</Header>

    <Filenames>0</Filenames>
    <Comments>1</Comments>
    <External>1</External>
    <Originals>1</Originals>
    <Larges>1</Larges>
    <Clean>0</Clean>

    <EXIF>1</EXIF>
    <Share>1</Share>
    <Protected>0</Protected>
    <Watermark>0</Watermark>
    <FriendEdit>0</FriendEdit>
    <FamilyEdit>0</FamilyEdit>

    <HideOwner>0</HideOwner>
    <DefaultColor>1</DefaultColor>
    <Geography>1</Geography>
    <CanRank>1</CanRank>
    <ProofDays>0</ProofDays>
    <Backprinting />

    <SmugSearchable>1</SmugSearchable>
    <WorldSearchable>1</WorldSearchable>
    </AlbumTemplate>
    </AlbumTemplates>
    </rsp>
    David Parry
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  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited June 15, 2007
    devbobo wrote:
    is this ok, this is the output of smugmug.albumtemplates.get, it should show u all the relevent album settings...
    That's plenty! thumb.gif
    So, these are the same identical tags as in create/change album, correct?
    "May the f/stop be with you!"
  • devbobodevbobo Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 4,339 SmugMug Employee
    edited June 15, 2007
    Nikolai wrote:
    That's plenty! thumb.gif
    So, these are the same identical tags as in create/change album, correct?

    yes...and the same tags return from smugmug.albums.getInfo
    David Parry
    SmugMug API Developer
    My Photos
  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited June 15, 2007
    devbobo wrote:
    yes...and the same tags return from smugmug.albums.getInfo
    uhm, so no keywords in getInfo?
    "May the f/stop be with you!"
  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited June 16, 2007
    S*E v.172: Full set of album flags
    The following features were finally added to album creation:
    • Backprinting
    • Password Hint
    • Hide Owner
    • Default Color
    • Geography
    • Allow Ranking
    • Proof Days
    • Hello, Smug!
    • Hello, World!
    Also, it turned out the password was not set properly when creating new album. Fixed.

    Thank you John and David! thumb.gif
    "May the f/stop be with you!"
  • jfriendjfriend Registered Users Posts: 8,097 Major grins
    edited June 19, 2007
    Nikolai wrote:
    The following features were finally added to album creation:
    • Backprinting
    • Password Hint
    • Hide Owner
    • Default Color
    • Geography
    • Allow Ranking
    • Proof Days
    • Hello, Smug!
    • Hello, World!
    Also, it turned out the password was not set properly when creating new album. Fixed.

    Thank you John and David! thumb.gif

    Thanks Nik. I'm back in business using StarExplorer to create galleries for me, particularly when I need to create a bunch of them all with the same settings.

    One setting I did not see in the new dialog is the "Printable" setting. It defaults to on which is what I usually want, but thought I'd mention it.

    Also some of your labels left me unsure what they meant. For example, you use "Default Color" when "True Color" would have been much clearer to me. I had to create a test gallery and see what gallery customization showed before I knew what you meant with "default color".

    The option for "Display Custom Header" still has me confused. I checked it thinking that this would allow display of my own header, but the gallery seems to show the opposite in the customize gallery settings after creating one. I'm still confused on that.

    Anyway, thanks for adding these.
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  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited June 19, 2007
    John,
    jfriend wrote:
    One setting I did not see in the new dialog is the "Printable" setting. It defaults to on which is what I usually want, but thought I'd mention it.
    It's been there since day one, called Allow Print Ordering..:-)
    jfriend wrote:
    Also some of your labels left me unsure what they meant. For example, you use "Default Color" when "True Color" would have been much clearer to me. I had to create a test gallery and see what gallery customization showed before I knew what you meant with "default color".
    Yeah, that... That's the name of the actual API parameter... I was in a rush to get them ready and prolly didn't think good enough... I will check it and rephrase...deal.gif
    jfriend wrote:
    The option for "Display Custom Header" still has me confused. I checked it thinking that this would allow display of my own header, but the gallery seems to show the opposite in the customize gallery settings after creating one. I'm still confused on that.
    Uhm.. dunno myself... David, help? headscratch.gif
    jfriend wrote:
    Anyway, thanks for adding these.
    You're welcome! thumb.gif
    "May the f/stop be with you!"
  • devbobodevbobo Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 4,339 SmugMug Employee
    edited June 19, 2007
    Nikolai wrote:
    Uhm.. dunno myself... David, help? headscratch.gif

    default color: true (1, yes) or Auto (0, no)
    header: SmugMug (1, yes) or Custom (0, no)

    thumb.gif
    David Parry
    SmugMug API Developer
    My Photos
  • jfriendjfriend Registered Users Posts: 8,097 Major grins
    edited June 19, 2007
    Nikolai wrote:
    It's been there since day one, called Allow Print Ordering..:-)

    OK, I see the print ordering option now. Don't know why I missed that one.

    Based on David's answer, it looks like the "[X] Display Custom Header" checkbox might be reversed.
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  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited June 19, 2007
    David,
    devbobo wrote:
    default color: true (1, yes) or Auto (0, no)
    header: SmugMug (1, yes) or Custom (0, no)

    thumb.gif

    Thanks, man, much obliged!

    Couple more things:
    1) there is a watermarking parameter, but is there a watermaking index/name, and a way to get those via API?
    2) same about communities - how do I get the names for the indexes?

    TIA!
    "May the f/stop be with you!"
  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited June 19, 2007
    jfriend wrote:
    Based on David's answer, it looks like the "[X] Display Custom Header" checkbox might be reversed.
    Yeah, I guess so...
    ne_nau.gif

    I've just made internal changes:
    Default color ============> [x] True Color
    Display custom header =====> [x] Smugmug Header

    It's too minor a change to deploy a new build, but it will sure make the next release, whatever it will be...

    HTH
    "May the f/stop be with you!"
  • jfriendjfriend Registered Users Posts: 8,097 Major grins
    edited June 19, 2007
    Nikolai wrote:
    Yeah, I guess so...
    ne_nau.gif

    I've just made internal changes:
    Default color ============> [x] True Color
    Display custom header =====> [x] Smugmug Header

    It's too minor a change to deploy a new build, but it will sure make the next release, whatever it will be...

    HTH

    Sounds good.
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  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited July 22, 2007
    90,000 hits, and counting!
    Star*Explorer just crossed another threshold. Its faithful statcounter gauge is now gaining the last 10K towards 100,000 hits, as well as the user count steadily goes toward 500 (S*E current user base is 440-odd).

    Being the only commercial tool on the otherwise totally freeware market is not easy, but S*E goes strong, featuring both comprehensive and unique feature set. Upload and download, lightning-fast searches, MS-Office-compatible data structures, sales analytics...
    Check for yourself and see why the users say "your app rocks" deal.gif

    I'd like to thank all the users and promoters for letting S*E grow! bowdown.gif
    "May the f/stop be with you!"
  • dlscott56dlscott56 Registered Users Posts: 1,324 Major grins
    edited July 24, 2007
    Nikolai wrote:
    Star*Explorer just crossed another threshold. Its faithful statcounter gauge is now gaining the last 10K towards 100,000 hits, as well as the user count steadily goes toward 500 (S*E current user base is 440-odd).

    Being the only commercial tool on the otherwise totally freeware market is not easy, but S*E goes strong, featuring both comprehensive and unique feature set. Upload and download, lightning-fast searches, MS-Office-compatible data structures, sales analytics...
    Check for yourself and see why the users say "your app rocks" deal.gif

    I'd like to thank all the users and promoters for letting S*E grow! bowdown.gif

    Had a chance to use mine for at least a month now. It really makes keeping things organized, uploading, and creating new albums easy. Nice tool for SmugMuggers.
  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited July 25, 2007
    dlscott56 wrote:
    Had a chance to use mine for at least a month now. It really makes keeping things organized, uploading, and creating new albums easy. Nice tool for SmugMuggers.
    Thanks, Dave, appreciate the feedback! thumb.gif
    "May the f/stop be with you!"
  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited August 1, 2007
    Most recent upload
    Just wanted to share the results of one recent upload I did.

    I was slacking with online backup and finally decided to do it.

    To catch up I had to create ~50 albums and upload ~2,500 images, totalling ~1.9Gb.

    OK, I launched S*E, selected the category, dropped my root folder containing all those images, waited a few seconds while S*E acknowledged all the images are OK, pressed Upload button - and went on with my usual chores...

    Yes, even very good connections can be lost. I lost mine 3 times. But since the S*E queue is persistent, nothing else was lost, and I didn't have to go through adding files over and over again. Each time it was simply a matter of hitting Upload button again, and getting back on with my life.

    Now I'm all caught up :-) wings.gif
    "May the f/stop be with you!"
  • dogwooddogwood Registered Users Posts: 2,572 Major grins
    edited August 1, 2007
    Nikolai wrote:
    Yes, even very good connections can be lost.

    And on iffy connections like using Comcast and a firewall, S*E is a lifesaver! bowdown.gif

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  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited August 1, 2007
    dogwood wrote:
    And on iffy connections like using Comcast and a firewall, S*E is a lifesaver! bowdown.gif
    Thanks, Pete! thumb.gif
    "May the f/stop be with you!"
  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited August 5, 2007
    S*E v.174: Image Level keywords
    Now that API caught up, this old S*E functionality has been re-enabled in the UI. :-)

    I'm on the fence adding Geotags UI items, since I think it's beneficial to add them directly to EXIF and I don't currently have reasonable means to facilitate any map-based lookup. Let me know if you have some serious need for them.
    "May the f/stop be with you!"
  • tuggnettuggnet Registered Users Posts: 27 Big grins
    edited August 8, 2007
    I'm having a bit of a problem with my SE. Maybe it's just the way I'm using it ne_nau.gif

    Here's what's happening:

    1) Create a new album // works great
    2) Upload photos // works great
    3) Create another album // not so good here

    At this point, SE fails to create the album and tells me it failed and to check the log.

    Here's what the log says:

    0:08:56: Finished Uploading (0:07:41)
    0:09:04: Started Creating test in Other
    0:09:04: Started Creating album: test
    0:09:14: RPC-XML: (-1)
    0:09:14: Finished Creating album: test (0:00:09)
    0:09:14: Trying to re-login
    0:09:14: Started Creating album: test
    0:09:23: RPC-XML: (-1)
    0:09:23: Finished Creating album: test (0:00:09)
    0:11:25: Finished Creating test in Other (0:02:20)

    is it something I'm doing? or is this a bug?

    Cheers
  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited August 8, 2007
    tuggnet wrote:
    I'm having a bit of a problem with my SE. Maybe it's just the way I'm using it ne_nau.gif

    Here's what's happening:
    Looks like you've lost a connection for whatever reason. Please try manual File-Disconnect, then File-Connect and then creation.
    I hope this does not happen every time? rolleyes1.gif
    "May the f/stop be with you!"
  • tuggnettuggnet Registered Users Posts: 27 Big grins
    edited August 9, 2007
    Nikolai wrote:
    Looks like you've lost a connection for whatever reason. Please try manual File-Disconnect, then File-Connect and then creation.
    I hope this does not happen every time? rolleyes1.gif
    I can duplicate this problem every time. I have not tried it from home. I'll give it a try at lunch today. Maybe it has something to do with the firewall at work? I would think that unlikely.

    Cheers
  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited August 9, 2007
    tuggnet wrote:
    I can duplicate this problem every time. I have not tried it from home. I'll give it a try at lunch today. Maybe it has something to do with the firewall at work? I would think that unlikely.

    Cheers
    Wow, that's a first, never heard of such thing on consistent basis.
    PLease shoot me an email with your next results to support@starexplorer.com.
    Thanks!
    "May the f/stop be with you!"
  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited August 12, 2007
    Changing hosts
    I'm in process of changing hosting companies. MySiteSpace turned out to be a royal PITA, so I've opted for apparently more reliable GoDaddy. Brief service interruption is possible, for which I sincerely apologize. Hopefully this all will be over ina day or two.
    "May the f/stop be with you!"
  • dlscott56dlscott56 Registered Users Posts: 1,324 Major grins
    edited August 13, 2007
    Nik, I'm having trouble uploading. Keep getting an invalid album ID error. I do all of my album set ups through SE but thought maybe I needed to resynch. So I did a resynch synch tree for My Smugmug. Still get the same error.
  • dlscott56dlscott56 Registered Users Posts: 1,324 Major grins
    edited August 13, 2007
    Never mind. I just re-downloaded the album and category info and everything is fine.
  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited August 13, 2007
    Dave,
    dlscott56 wrote:
    Never mind. I just re-downloaded the album and category info and everything is fine.
    Soory about this! I had a few troubles myself this morning, prolly a "weekend issue" mwink.gif
    "May the f/stop be with you!"
  • dlscott56dlscott56 Registered Users Posts: 1,324 Major grins
    edited August 13, 2007
    Nikolai wrote:
    Soory about this! I had a few troubles myself this morning, prolly a "weekend issue" mwink.gif
    No prob. SE has been great!
  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited August 14, 2007
    New host should be active
    If you visit www.starexplorer.com and do not see the red warning on the top of the home page - you're in:-)
    Otherwise it means that your DNS has not been updated yet (but it will be soon:-)
    "May the f/stop be with you!"
  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited August 29, 2007
    S*E goes Facebook
    New Facebook user group has been created for S*E users to express and share their experience, concerns and success stories. :ivar
    "May the f/stop be with you!"
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