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John-Simpson

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Registered: 15-Jan-2008

How do Viewers of a Tiger Web Gallery identify a Photo to Me?
Posted: 27 Feb 23, 13:11

I think the best way, is to quote the file name. It is probably unique and should be reasonably short.

I've managed to get the file name to display in both the photo caption and photo data but I am struggling to give both a meaningful title.

1. In Light box (Caption):

Image Ref: <div class="title">${fileName}</div>

This gives for example:

Image Ref:
2006-02-047.jpg

This is fine but I would prefer it all on one line and Image Ref: in bold and the rest not bold.

2. In Lightbox (Photo Data):

# File Name
File.File Name

This gives for example: File.File Name 2006-02-047.jpg

Also okay but would just like the title to be: Image Ref:

I'm not sure if I need to use both of the above! I would say that the advantage of being in the caption is that people are more likely to see the Image Ref and use it, but it produces more clutter!

3. The display title for KEYWORDS /TAGS is strangely called SUBJECT! Can this be changed to Keywords please?

4. I don't think there is an easy way to show where the original photo was located when found in a search? My idea is to manually add a Keyword to each photo that describes to me where it is.

A convention that might be adopted is: folder-nameoffolder

Point 4 is not strictly necessary if I'm given the file reference by someone wishing to discuss a photo or a hyperlink.

PS I don't want to use Widget Comments for feedback. Tried it once and didn't like it!

I'm sure 1 and 2 are easy solutions to do.

JeffTucker

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Registered: 31-Jan-2006

Re: How do Viewers of a Tiger Web Gallery identify a Photo to Me?
Posted: 27 Feb 23, 13:21

in response to: John-Simpson

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John-Simpson wrote:
1. In Light box (Caption):
...
This is fine but I would prefer it all on one line and Image Ref: in bold and the rest not bold.

Try this:

<div class="title">Image Ref: <span style="font-weight: normal">${fileName}</span></div>

Tested, and it seems to work.

The other three items are "Laza things."

ETA: If you want to display the file name without its extension, use label instead of fileName.

John-Simpson

Posts: 164
Registered: 15-Jan-2008

Re: How do Viewers of a Tiger Web Gallery identify a Photo to Me?
Posted: 27 Feb 23, 13:43

in response to: JeffTucker

Thanks Jeff, that works just fine.

I'll wait to hear from Laza about the other things.

Laza

Posts: 1,555
Registered: 6-Sep-2005

Re: How do Viewers of a Tiger Web Gallery identify a Photo to Me?
Posted: 27 Feb 23, 16:11

in response to: John-Simpson

Generally, there's no way you can change the label for a given metadata. If it's stored as "File.File name", then the photo data box will display this. The same goes for the subject. I'm not a native speaker, so I don't know why the keywords are stored as "subject" in the exif data. Here's one example from my photos:

xmp.dc:subject[1]=Arno
xmp.dc:subject[2]=Firenze
xmp.dc:subject[3]=Florence
xmp.dc:subject[4]=Italy
xmp.dc:subject[5]=bridge
xmp.dc:subject[6]=river
xmp.dc:subject[7]=sunset

You can use the caption template though to display both the file name and the keywords with a custom label:

<div class="title">Image ref: <span style="font-weight: normal;">${label}</span></div>
<div class="comment"><strong>Keywords:</strong> ${keywords}</div>

The search results show a folder icon on the thumbnails, which links to the original folder, however, this cannot be displayed. Tagging should work.

John-Simpson

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Registered: 15-Jan-2008

Re: How do Viewers of a Tiger Web Gallery identify a Photo to Me?
Posted: 27 Feb 23, 17:47

in response to: Laza

Laza wrote:
Generally, there's no way you can change the label for a given metadata. If it's stored as "File.File name", then the photo data box will display this. The same goes for the subject. I'm not a native speaker, so I don't know why the keywords are stored as "subject" in the exif data.

I don't know why they are called subject, but maybe this is what keywords were called before the name keywords became fashionable! Are keywords the same as hashtags which is the latest craze?

You can use the caption template though to display both the file name and the keywords with a custom label:

<div class="title">Image ref: <span style="font-weight: normal;">${label}</span></div>
<div class="comment"><strong>Keywords:</strong> ${keywords}</div>

Yes, that works, although I've got to be careful not to bloat the user experience with unnecessary stuff.

The search results show a folder icon on the thumbnails, which links to the original folder, however, this cannot be displayed. Tagging should work.

Well, I didn't know that and it makes perfect sense too! I wonder if other users realize this function? Knowing about the folder icon probably means that don't need to populate images with a folder keyword.

Thanks - I'm finding the search facility of TIGER immensely useful.

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