Enhanced bulk actions

  • First off, this plugin is great. Easy to use and efficient.
    Only problem I’ve encountered so far is to perform bulk actions. If I add, for example, 100 images to the catalogue via FTP they are all uncategorized by default. With the current controls, I’d have to edit each individual item to add it to a specific category. Doing this for 1 or 2 (or 10) is fine but, for 100s, it’s mind-numbingly boring.
    It could be that this feature already exists and I haven’t figured it out so far. If that’s the case… my apologies. But if not then please consider adding in a future revision.
    Other nice to haves would be quick item renaming, date and drag and drop reordering.
    Keep up the good work!

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  • Plugin Author macguru2000

    (@macguru2000)

    Zorgatos,

    Thank you so much for your compliments, I don’t have a lot of time to spend describing all the planned features, just know that two bulk actions are in the works for CataBlog 1.2.6, edit category and regenerate images. I can’t think of any other fields right now that need to be bulk editable, maybe price.

    Drag and drop reordering was available in 1.1 and 1.2 of CataBlog, and everyone complained that it was to hard to use with large libraries, so I removed it and plan on implementing some kind of gallery or collection system that will let people drag and drop reorder within each gallery. I can get into the technical details about this later, but you may also read my blog posting about it at https://catablog.illproductions.com/2011/04/ordering-multiple-categories/

    One thing to keep in mind with bulk edits, it can be very easy to create thousands of database queries in one page load. So these are features I need to design well and test thoroughly before releasing. Again thanks for you interest in CataBlog and if you have a chance and haven’t already, please

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    Plugin Author macguru2000

    (@macguru2000)

    Also, you could use the CSV import feature, here would be the steps I would take.

    1. Upload your images via FTP
    2. Rescan your originals folder
    3. Export a CSV version of your catalog
    4. Edit the CSV, adding in all categories (separate categories with a vertical bar, | )
    5. Import the new CSV file with the replace all option checked.
    6. Viola, done ??

    Hope that helps you out until I get more bulk actions done, cheers!

    Plugin Author macguru2000

    (@macguru2000)

    A new version of CataBlog, 1.2.7 will be released very soon and one of the features is going to be bulk category edits. It might be a bit of an elementary implementation of it, but still should a least be a step in the right direction for your mind numbing concern…

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