Question regarding photo galleries and categories

One thing I have noticed when you create photo galleries is that after a while you could accumulate many of these, even into the hundreds and beyond, and this could make it a long list to look through.
So my question or even a suggestion is this:

Could it be possible to have an option for creating categories to hold galleries you create ? So for instance you may create a category for ' 2015 Photos ' or maybe something like ' Burlesque Shows ' and then you would create the galleries within them. So instead of having let's say 10 different Burlesque Show photo galleries spread about in the galleries as we have them now those 10 Burlesque Show Galleries would all be in that one category. This will then give a shorter list to look through to find your photos you wish to look at, maybe also have a thumbnail where you can set a default image before the category, much like where you have a youtube image before it's title.

What do you think about this and if possible or not?
updated by @john-bizley: 05/25/15 01:09:14PM

You could always add a 'gallery_category' field using the Form Designer then modify the Gallery templates to suit (look at the Blog templates to see how they handle categories, or maybe the Audio templates where they handle 'audio_album' (same principle))
hth
Pa


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Paul Asher - JR Developer and System Import Specialist

Thanks Paul will look into that, if I did create a category this way would the other items regarding pulling out the images to view still work, ie if the galleries are within a category and someone goes to view a gallery in the category or would the image lists and Lightbox need adjusting also ?

Do you think though this might be something to consider to add into Jamroom as an option to use ?

All the individual gallery and image views would still work. All categories might do is provide a level of filtering/listing.
Possibily, but the JR ethos is to keep modules as simple as possible (not always easy!!). That is why we offer the Form Designer, so that modules can be 'beefed up' with features/functionality.


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Paul Asher - JR Developer and System Import Specialist