Can’t find detailed instructions on using Categories

  • Resolved coffeecuplj

    (@coffeecuplj)


    8 years, 1 month ago

    Try as I have, I haven’t been able to achieve what I’d like to do.

    Currently I have 1 Album set up for each user, and have a Page that contains the [wppa type=”thumbs” album=”#owner,#me][/wppa] – resulting in only the user’s specific Album being presented for their update.

    What I’d like to do to give users 2 Albums, one that contains a category of ‘Mine’ and in other Album to have a category of ‘General’.

    I’d then I’d amend the webpage to have two calls to apps, such as

    Here is your Album, for you specific photos
    [wppa type=”thumbs” album=”#owner,#me #cat,Mine”][/wppa]

    Here is your General Album, for off-topic photos
    [wppa type=”thumbs” album=”#owner,#me #cat,General”][/wppa]

    Then, in another part of the website I’d like to have a Gallery of all the members photos that meet the specific category of ‘Mine’. I’d thought of something like [wppa type=”thumbs” album=”#all #cat,Mine”][/wppa]….

    OK, I admit two points, first that I might be getting the [wppa type=”thumbs” album=”#owner,#me #cat,Mine”][/wppa] string completely wrong. Second, that the way I’m going about this with two Albums and two Categories could be achieved another way.

    What I would appreciate though is some guidance and assistance please, as I’ve tried may different ways and not got anywhere,

    Thanks in advance

    LJ

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  • Plugin Author Jacob N. Breetvelt

    (@opajaap)

    I think you best implement this by using more than one ‘grated parent’.

    Assuming you are familiar with the concept of ‘granted albums’ as explained here where you can display the users album cover by a shortcode like 

    
[wppa type="cover" album="#owner,#me,66"][/wppa]

    where 66 is the album id of the ‘grant parent’, i recommend you to have a second ‘grant parent’ to be used on the other page.
    You can have as many ‘grant parents’ as you like, select them in the multi selectionbox in Table IX-D11.1. (if IX-D11.0 is set to ‘album (multi) selectionbox’).
    Alternatively you can specify ‘An album category’ in IX-D11.0, and the category in D11.1; this will mean that all the albums that have that specific category are automaticly grant parents.

    Plugin Author Jacob N. Breetvelt

    (@opajaap)

    Tip: Set an upload widget on the page. This will make sure the user albums are created. The user may have to load the page twice for the album to appear.

    Thread Starter coffeecuplj

    (@coffeecuplj)

    Thanks Jacob for your guidance.

    I now use a Parent record for each Album Type, and then each child Album has a category added. All works now as I’d hoped to set it up.

    Cheers,

    LJ

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