Duplicate image in first two positions in image galleries

URL is:

http://www.thechocolatelife.info/thechocolatelife/clay/gallery/all

The first two images are the same image - URL and tooltip text are identical. It's not that they are duplicates - the first image in this view is always displayed twice.
updated by @claygordon: 02/25/15 08:07:17PM

I'm not seeing this here in jrNingja on my site. I've tried both the profile level (clicking on "Gallery") as well as the "images" section.

When you hold you edit the images are the ID's the same?


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Brian Johnson
Founder and Lead Developer - Jamroom
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Brian - when you visit my dev site do you see it? I am working in a cloned skin with many modifications.

Yes, the two images have the same ID when editing ...

e.g., http://www.thechocolatelife.info/thechocolatelife/gallery/detail/id=46

The id changes based on page refresh as the arrangment of images appears to be set to random.
updated by @claygordon: 01/16/15 02:01:22PM

I see this too when using "all" which shows ALL the profiles images on the same page:

http://demo.jamroom.net/jrNingja/demoadmin/gallery/all

Drop the "all":

http://demo.jamroom.net/jrNingja/demoadmin/gallery

And that looks better. I will check out why the first image is being duplicated with "all" but I would recommend that you DO NOT link to "all" as that is going to be a very slow experience if someone has a thousand images uploaded.


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Brian Johnson
Founder and Lead Developer - Jamroom
https://www.jamroom.net

Brian -

I want the ALL because Images is semantically different from Galleries. Images shows images. Gallery shows galleries.

When you click Images in the top nav you get a grid of images. It make little sense (to me) to have Image and Gallery in my profile nav result in displaying the same thing.

There's a paginate function on the image display in the top nav. I'd be happy to add that if you can give some good hints. I will be happy to share back the code to other ex-Ningsters who'd like to do the same.

Brian-

Also, this is the Ningja skin and image import and there is the option to group by gallery or not. Other skins do not have this option.

So just to be clear - even if someone has 1,000 images in their profile you want the "images" menu item to link to ALL of them, on the same page?

I would also assume that you would never want to have BOTH "gallery" and "images" in your profile menu - I can't see how that would do anything to make it easier to understand.

I apologize - I know this issue has beat around a lot - and every time I think I understand exactly what you're looking for I feel like I get a curveball and I'm back to square one.

Sorry!


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Brian Johnson
Founder and Lead Developer - Jamroom
https://www.jamroom.net

Group By Gallery is not part of the NingJa skin - it is part of the Image Galleries module.


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Brian Johnson
Founder and Lead Developer - Jamroom
https://www.jamroom.net
updated by @brian: 01/16/15 02:40:24PM

Right. Typing too fast.

But if I turn Group by Gallery off then I get the "all" listing with no way to display galleries - just a paginated listing of images. Unless I am missing something completely.

I can still create galleries, but if group by gallery is off there is no way that I can see to actually display and work with and in the galleries.

I need to have both - and it's the behavior Ningsters expect.
updated by @claygordon: 01/16/15 02:41:02PM

I was under the impression that Ning users were not going to want galleries - they want everything to be in a "single" gallery. That is why the Group by Gallery option was added, as well as the ability to bring in all a profile's images to a single gallery on import.

So right now I can't think of a way for you to use it both ways at the same time.


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Brian Johnson
Founder and Lead Developer - Jamroom
https://www.jamroom.net

Brian -

The sample size of emigrants right now is small so there are going to be biases. There are something like 9000 images on TheChocolateLife and close to 400 albums (galleries). My community uses them. The default is to show grids of images and then to arrange them into albums.

I think one of the reasons more people did not use the Albums is that the drag and drop to rearrange functionality really sucked and there was no decent way to create and manage galleries with more than about 16-20 images (one page's worth). If the Album functionality was actually decent more people would have used it, I firmly believe.

I managed to do it by appending "All" to the images:### button. It's a hack, I know - but it works for me.

One reason I want to encourage it, especially with the Lightbox function in JR, is that it's easier to create photo-heavy travel blogs as a Gallery than it is to embed a whole bunch of images in a blog post. In fact, I am not exactly sure how I would upload more than one image in a blog post using the version of the TinyMCE editor that's used. There is no inline upload image command.

I suppose I could add src as allowed HTML and that would enable people to embed images they'd uploaded to a gallery ...

Unless there is something I am missing about enabling inline image embedding in blog posts.

I just checked and all the images embedded in blog posts are served from Ning. Now that's going to be a lot of work to fix if it's at all possible.
updated by @claygordon: 01/16/15 02:53:53PM

Hopefully Paul will see this to confirm, but "inlined" images in imported items are looked for on import, and the URL is rewritten to reference the local Ning_Media folder.

Paul is that correct?

Thanks!


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Brian Johnson
Founder and Lead Developer - Jamroom
https://www.jamroom.net

Brian- Ning users use galleries all the time, and love them. Or maybe I'm thinking of 'albums'. (dang!)
The only reason we had asked you to give us the option to import a member's photos all into one place was because the jrImport was putting them ALL into galleries in some odd way that was causing confusion. To get around that, we just asked to import a member's total pix into one lump in their profile, so the members could re-sort them into their proper albums later if they wanted to, and create more albums on their own in the future.
I recall there was some confusion about what was a gallery vs an album...but can't now recall the exact details. But anyway- it wasn't because ning folks don't use them...i think. Wish I could find that thread but oh well. =8-*


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updated by @strumelia: 01/16/15 05:47:07PM

Brian -

I did a much closer inspection and I could only see one image where the URL was not re-written. I updated that by hand. All good.