Sorting for galleries

Check The Judge by Compudata. https://www.compudatagroup.com/compudata/
It does upload images and reports automatically.

I really do not want to change software EW is the best one so far, I have tried and used others that were lacking and also had a yearly subscription and no judging module.

Josie I know it would be a coding change but why can’t we sort the file before we upload for the adding the extra info and have EW sort the images the same as the spreadsheet.

Dan C

Did you try sorting the images on the listing page (click the header of the column ) right before you do the attaching? That ought to sort by a single column, although I don’t think it will deal with a secondary sort.

Yes that s what I do now but would be nice for a secondary sort and even a third the clubs I do have prints and categories but when the gallery is created they are still lump together by the same author so could have 5 nature images by the same author in a row. I guess it would be difficult to change the order as in the spread sheet that I upload with the added scores and judges comments?

Maybe add it to future updates of EW

Dan C

OK, I’ll put it on my list of things to look into.

Another thought: If you were willing to accept a prefix (either the concatenated type and category or just a number reflecting that) on your title or caption, you could sort on that in the existing setup. ( You would need to add it to the “Extra Data displayed in the spreadsheet” in order to see it in the list page. )

I will look into that for next month I already setup the gallery. But I did notice with wordpress gallery I had to sort high(P) to low(A) to get it in the gallery low (assignment) to hi (pictorial If I did a sort in category assignment first it would be last in the gallery page … I guess wordpress gallery is not setup for sorted images. I only look after EW on these web sites they both have their own webmaster so I am limited as to what I can and cannot do re the galleries.

TKS
Dan C

One more thing I setup the whole year for the clubs clinics in the fall, I do set the end date and time but would be nice if you added a start date and time. I have been sent email stating the new clinic should be going as I foregot to activate them. Just food for thought.

Dan C

It turned out that modifying the javascript to do a secondary sort was not workable.

What I did for 1.3.10 was to allow you to add an additional “tag” to the image along with title, caption, etc, and to display this tag in a spreadsheet column. Then you can sort on it in the item-list view before attaching to the page.

I’ve added “start date/time” to my list of things to think about.

But I’m afraid I’m really going to have to declare a moratorium on new features for at least the next few months — far too much stuff is piling up in my to-do list.