Image search in web albums

3 months ago David Ekholm

Please add this request to the Feature Request section of our forum! It is surely an interesting idea.

3 months ago daniel nozadze

i love your site :)

3 months ago Laca Molnar

I'll handle this request to David, jAlbum author now.

3 months ago msaxer

That certainly seems like a sensible duty for jAlbum's engine to handle rather than handing off the responsibility to the skin, particularly if the skin isn't provided enough information to properly handle incremental builds.

One huge benefit of a jAlbum-generated metadata database, using something like Derby or HSQLDB presumably, is that any skin could then easily add search functionality. Of course, the implementation of this feature within jAlbum is likely far from trivial given the many ways jAlbum can be configured.

Is there a feature request along these lines floating around somewhere? The closest I could find was in the jAlbum Feature Request forum titled "SEARCH!" but that's been silent since 2008.

3 months ago Laca Molnar

I know it's a pain, but from the skin the folders not processed are invisible. The skin can't even see if a folder is simply skipped to avoid reprocessing, or it was really excluded. Maybe jAlbum could maintain such a database and save it to the album's root folder for example.

3 months ago msaxer

Yes, that is unfortunate. Seems to me that sites with lots of pictures are the most likely to use the search feature and also the most likely to do incremental builds.

I have roughly 10,000 pictures in my album and will most likely disable search functionality rather than biting the bullet and doing full album builds every time.

Any chance the search functionality could be made compatible with incremental builds? Thanks for your clarifying comments Laca.

3 months ago Laca Molnar

Unfortunately you will have to, as the search database is built every time from ground.

3 months ago msaxer

Thanks Laca. Yep, regenerating the full album did the trick; search is now working as expected. Hopefully I won't always have to do that since the incremental generation is orders of magnitude faster than generating the full album.

3 months ago Laca Molnar

Yes, Search will only work if you Make the whole album. Check if "Settings / Advanced / General / Process subdirectories" is ON and "Process only updated directories" is OFF.

3 months ago msaxer

Hmm....that's odd. I'm using Turtle (your amazing skin is one of the main reasons I like JAlbum so much) and search doesn't appear to work as you described. I'll send you a private message with my website URL and some sample searches.

Perhaps I should regenerate my entire site to see if that fixes the issue?

3 months ago Laca Molnar

Glad to hear. Folder names (and descriptions) are already included in Turtle skin's search feature.

3 months ago msaxer

I love JAlbum's search feature. Would it be possible to include folder/directory names in the list of items searched?