I have an album with only two images. One image is marked with a red flag.
I added a custom view-folder, that shows all the images that have been marked with a red or blue flag.
In the .htt template files of my skin I use the ${comment} variable to add the comment text. The comment text is used as a tooltip when you hover with the mouse over a thumbnail and as a caption below the photos.
This works fine for the two "normal" images, but for the image in the view-folder the comment text has changed to an empty string.

This is the code for a thumbnail in my template file (inside a <ja:fileiterator nodirs> loop):

<!-- Normal image -->
<% System.out.println("image") %>
<% System.out.println(" view-root: " + currentObject.getViewRoot()) %>
<% System.out.println(" file-name: " + fileName) %>
<% System.out.println("     title: " + title) %>
<% System.out.println("   comment: " + comment) %>
<% System.out.println("      date: " + originalDate) %>
<a class="thumb"
data-fancybox="gallery"
data-caption="${comment}"
href="${imagePath}">
<img class="thumb-image" src="${thumbPath}" alt="${fileName}" title="${comment}">
<br><span class="thumb-title">${fileTitle}</span>
</a>

I inserted some System.out.println() commands to see what is happening.

This is the result in the System console:

Making "Grenspalen-3" (Changes)
image
 view-root: null
 file-name: 000-20210712_115818.jpg
     title: 000
   comment: Rotonde bij Witte Huis
      date: 2021-07-12 11:58
image
 view-root: null
 file-name: 181be-20210712_133458.jpg
     title: 181be
   comment: Paal 181-be bij Eupen
      date: 2021-07-12 13:34
image
 view-root: /Custom filter view
 file-name: 000-20210712_115818.jpg
     title: 000
   comment: 
      date: 2021-07-12 11:58
"Grenspalen-3" made in 2,904s

Why has only the comment text changed to an empty string when the image 000-20210712_115818.jpg is processed the second time?

The same problem occurs in other view-folders, like Alphabetical view or Date view.

Thanks for the reply. I hoped that I made some obvious mistake...

In my normal skin I have some functions that uses the comment, like a function to replace quotes by their html-codes and a function to combine the comment and the date into one "caption". I thought that they might cause the problem. But for the test I removed all those functions (I think...) but the problem persists.

About the iterations: In my skin I use two iterations, one <ja:fileiterator nodirs>loop for images and other files (audio, video, etc.), followed by a second <ja:fileiterator><ja:if category="folder"> loop for the folders.

In my test-album I only have a main page with two images and the view-folder.

https://palthe.jalbum.net/Test%20album%20with%20view/

Edited by: palthe on 21 Nov 2025, 15:36

Perfect!
Adding supportsInternalLinking=true to the skin.propperties file solved the problem.

I have read that to use views "the skin must support it", but I saw that the internal linking option in the settings (Advanced > General) was selected, although greyed-out. So I thought it was OK.

Just out of curiosity:
When would you want to disable this option? What are the disadvantages?