Photo are not in order

Hello,

     When user uploads their pictures in their album, Pictures doesn't show up in order with filename or timestamp. How do i make pictures in album to show up in right order (Ascending or Discending)? Its very annoying to users of the site because their pictures shows up in random order.

     Can you please guide me?

Regards,

Goopchoop

There were several posts about this issue during the RC phase. I do not believe anyone has resolved the issue. I also do not think Boonex has accepted that it is a problem.

I agree with you. Order by name would be the best of all possible solutions.

Thank You for taking time to reply. I guess, i have to put a disclaimer on my site about how the pictures are being displayed, which is SAD.

When the picture is uploaded the picture filename is converted into a numerical string and thrown into the image folder without rhym or reason.  They will have to overhaul the photos module to make this work the way everyone else works, so until then photos and placement are random.

Thank you for your kind reply and time to explain the reason.

I hope some day Boonex will wake up and think about how their modules are being used.

I like Boonex but how can i convince site users that their photos won't be an order, after upload. No one will use the photo module, it is point less from user perspective.

Waited such a long time for bulk photo upload now, i have to wait for album to appear in order.

I hope design would have been easier so the change would have been easier.

Goopchoop

Log into your account

Go to photos

Click on the album containing the photos.

Click on organize.

Drag photos around to any order you want them to appear in.

They may be randomly placed when uploaded, but the order can be changed.

LOL Really!?

Talk about a back door fix!

Hey, I don't want to get mud on my new carpet (what?). This has also annoyed me, but as said above, I just tell people to use the organize feature for their photos.

Now, that is cool!  Good Job Boonex!  Let's give Boonex some love, they are getting bashed pretty good here in the forum.  Gotta admit, this feature is pretty cool, especially coming from D6.

Not to mention the Cooliris photo album feature!

Deano and Magnusoft,

Are you serious?

Do you want user to spend time on organizing album after they have uploaded their pictures and see that they are not in order?

Don't take me wrong here, i like Boonex and thus i waited to get full support of Album creation with multiple photo upload. But, i think its pretty basic feature if boonex has to compete with other good software.

Team has done a wonderful work, but it seems that Boonex is always one step behind....

Also, i am not bashing boonex here, just helping out to make a product better so it can be widely use with its cool features.

Regards,

Goopchoop

It's the only option at the moment, but also keep in mind that some users may not want their photos displayed in the order they were uploaded or by filename.

This gives them the ability to arrange them any way they want them to appear.

Now i am not saying that can't be improved. Uploaded files should be placed at the end of the current user defined order. So you also don't want to actually force a specific order on your members either.

Thank You, i guess i have to put a Disclaimer at the site as "BEWARE".

Regards to you all experts,

Goopchoop

Hello everyone!

By default all photos are placed by their 'upload time' order (descending). In albums, D7 uses order from organize area.

If something works not so then plz check it our demozzz.com/dolphin7b and then show me this "problem area" - it needs for checking from our side too. If problem exists somewhere we'll take care about it.

PS. - Default order will not be changed from upload time to file name - it was told before.

Regard

It doesn't work. If you upload 5 (or more) at a time using the flash uploader, it mixes them up during the upload process. Try it and you'll see. Upload image 1 - image 2 - image 3 - image 4 - image 5, and you'll see it set the wacky order during the process, image 2. - image 3, - image 1, etc...

Most cameras set the order by date and time in the name of the photo. Why can't Boonex just use that name instead of creating a new one? If you are worried about files with the same name being uploaded and causing a conflict, append the time and date to the end of the original name so the order doesn't get screwed up.

MY members upload TONS of images and just like the sadly lacking email validation system, I'll be spending inordinate amounts of time answering "why does it do this?" messages from my members.

I agree, this is very annoying, more over makes the photo module unusable for users... my site users are also complaining about this..

i hope boonex will wake up one day to provide the fix.

Regards,

goopchoop

The reason boonex and many other sites don't use the name people provide is because of the differences in what characters different operating systems consider valid characters as a file name. Also characters that are valid for URL's, mysql and PHP functions also need to be considered. Thus, some characters might need to be changed. So rather than scanning the file name replacing invalid characters, it is easier and functionally faster to just generate a new file name.

Of course i understand this does not help you in anyway other than to explain the primary reason why a new file name is choosen.

I would rather have a script tell my member that specific characters in the name are not allowed and block the upload than to make them go through all this brain damage. There's only a few languages that use those special type characters and I can't imagine that it's really that big of a problem anyway. In fact, I think if you just apply normal file/folder naming conventions as the requirements for an uploaded files name you completely eliminate the problem because those naming conventions already exist on everyones PC anyway.

I think it's just a shortcut. They didn't want to be bothered with the small amount of extra work it would have required to do it right. I don't understand why they won't deal with this problem. Dolphin users have been complaining about it since I got here and judging by the dates on some of the complaint posts, they were complaining about it long before I ever arrived.

If they are worried about the possible use of forbidden characters, then make the system work the way it is. I really don't care if it changes the name. The feature that allows multiple uploads is where the real problem lies anyway. If you upload them one image at a time, a different timestamp is applied and there is no problem. Multiple uploads (the ones most people use) must be applying the same timestamp to all the images then the system is randomly mixing them up because it can't determine what order to display them in.

I do not see this as such a big problem that one of the resident geniuses would have to spend more than about an hour working it out. You just have to give a sh*t in the first place.