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Supera380

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Tiger 3 skin - questions on Views
Posted: 4 Aug 26, 15:58
 
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Hello,

I am looking for some assistance in using Views.

I have created a Date View based on Creation date which gives me folders sequenced by year with the earliest year at the top, most recent at the bottom. I would like to reverse the sequence so the current year is at the top. If I use the sort/filter button within the View folder there is a Reverse option shown in the context sensitive menu, but regardless of whether "Reverse is ticked or not, the same old to recent year sequence prevails. i.e I am not able to make "Reverse" work.

Second question is, I have two Views created, one by Date and another by Place. I have in the Settings Site/Functions/Top Navigation section Include web locations and pages both checked, but the views do not appear in the top Navigation bar. Only when I am inside that View does the top navigation menu display. Do I misunderstand where the View menus can be created in the navigation menus?

Thank you.
JeffTucker

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Re: Tiger 3 skin - questions on Views
Posted: 4 Aug 26, 16:14   in response to: Supera380 in response to: Supera380
 
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Supera380 wrote:
I have created a Date View based on Creation date which gives me folders sequenced by year with the earliest year at the top, most recent at the bottom. I would like to reverse the sequence so the current year is at the top. If I use the sort/filter button within the View folder there is a Reverse option shown in the context sensitive menu, but regardless of whether "Reverse is ticked or not, the same old to recent year sequence prevails. i.e I am not able to make "Reverse" work.

It's very counterintuitive, but once the date view has been created, try sorting it by name, and reverse the order. Double-click the thumbnail in Explore for the date view. In the window that opens, click the Image ordering icon at upper right. Now choose Name and Reverse.

I know, it's weird, but I think it will do what you want. Not sure about applying it to subfolders - if there are months, for example, that might result in April, December, February, January, July, June, and so on.
RobM

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Re: Tiger 3 skin - questions on Views
Posted: 4 Aug 26, 19:40   in response to: Supera380 in response to: Supera380
 
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Supera380 wrote:
Hello,

I am looking for some assistance in using Views.

For all details on Views see https://jalbum.net/help/en/JAlbum/Views
Laza

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Re: Tiger 3 skin - questions on Views
Posted: 5 Aug 26, 09:13   in response to: Supera380 in response to: Supera380
 
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Views are folders, so they must appear in the top menu if you check "Folders". If it's enabled, and they still won't appear, that might be because Settings / Advanced / Process only updated directories is enabled.
Supera380

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Re: Tiger 3 skin - questions on Views
Posted: 22 Aug 26, 16:46   in response to: JeffTucker in response to: JeffTucker
 
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Hey Jeff,

Apologies for not getting back to you but had no chance to play around with Jalbum for the last couple of weeks.

You were right. When I clicked the Name option they automagically resorted themselves in the reverse order with 2026 on top. So that solved it! Many thanks for that tip!

cheers
Mark
Supera380

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Re: Tiger 3 skin - questions on Views
Posted: 22 Aug 26, 16:57   in response to: Laza in response to: Laza
 
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Hi Laza,

Thx for the advice.Process only update directories was disabled so that is not the problem.

I think I now understand why the Views are not appearing. There seems to be a difference if I view the album via Desktop PC (Windows) and if I view the same album from a mobile device.

when I reported the missing Views issue , I was using my Desktop PC.Here's what I observe.
If I am at the top level of the album, I see the Hamburger icon in top left corner. If I hoverover it a list of folders appears in a vertical navigation pane/list but the the 2 views I have created are missing. Why is this?

Well my hunch is the list of folders is limited by number e.g. My list of folders goes to the bottom of the monitor screen and it does not show all the folders including the 2 new views which are located at the very bottom. Is there a limit to how many folders it can show? The list of folders does not scroll for me.

Now on my smartphone, the list of folders when i tap the hamburger icon presents the entire list. The folder list is scrollable and I see the views at the very bottom.

In summary, I think the Desktop PC view has a limit of how many folders it can display and based on my organisation of folders, they are not viewable since they are located at the very bottom. I will try and move those 2 views to the top to prove my hunch.

Will report back.
Supera380

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Re: Tiger 3 skin - questions on Views
Posted: 22 Aug 26, 17:07   in response to: Supera380 in response to: Supera380
 
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Confirmed. Places and Year now appear under the hamburger icon.

So I think the problem is the folder list is limited by number or is truncated in some way.
Is there any way to handle this so the complete list of folders is shown in the menu when Jalbum is using Desktop PC/Windows?

For the record, I currently have 59 folders in total, of which 3 are hidden and 2 are views, so the active list is 56 folders including 2 views. The folders are organised/titled by a combination of location and year E.g. Frankfurt Airport June 2025.

It looks to me it can show approx 50 folders max.

Cheers
Mark
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