Hello,

In the parameters panel, in Site / Hero / Title, the label for the folder modification date parameter is displayed as :

<b><font color="blue">${folderModDate} =</font></b>

This remains understandable however

Edited by: JeffTucker on 4 Feb 2025, 17:23, to add "code" tags

It would appear to be a bug with Tiger. The gui seems to be using, for example

add("br", new JLabelFor("${folderModDate} =", folderDateSource));

Other gui elements are using the texts files as, for example

add("br", new JLabelFor(getText("ui.caption"), titleCaptionPresets));

It might be intended but looks wrong.

If you look at the image attached above you'll see (ringed in red) that the gui label for folderModDate is ${folderModDate}=

The texts file, for English shows
ui.folderModDate=Last file modification date

Maybe it is intentional, just looks weird though.

Well, it does, eventually. If you choose [Custom] as the Caption, then click somewhere below, the custom template appears. It's a little balky. In light of that, the JComboBox for ${folderModDate} probably shouldn't be visible until you've chosen to use a custom caption.

As long as the folder caption template was displayed as HTML code, it was clear that ${folderModDate} referred to a variable in the box above. But I changed it so the caption template is only displayed when the (Custom) option is used, as the HTML code was intimidating for many users. Now, it's confusing to see in this form, even though I'd like to keep the date source selector visible, as some options in that caption box are still using the date. I'll change the variable name to some more human-readable label, e.g., "Date source."

The problem is that the JComboBox label is cryptic and doesn't explain what the JComboBox is for. I know what ${folderModDate} is (and so do you ), but I think that's not the case for a lot of people.

When I was developing GUIs, there were 2 important rules:

• The label of an input component should explain what is being entered with that component. For example, Position or Caption are OK, but ${folderModDate} = is definitely not an explanation, especially for users who don't know jAlbum variables.
• A data should always be referred to in the same way or with the same wording, regardless of the location. Here, the data is the date, and is referred to as "date" in the caption predefined values, and "${folderModDate} =" in the dropdown label, and both refer to the same thing: this is inconsistent IMHO.

So, to be consistent, either should be "date" or "${folderModDate}", but I admit that a predefined Caption like "Title + ${folderModDate} + Description" is not very nice...

And just a note: this combo is displayed, even if there is no date in the selected caption (at least with predefined captions), it is not necessary. However, for custom captions, this is useful.

Oops, looks like there was a problem with the attachment, fixed!