In order to keep track of much requested features and suggestions, I'll update this topic from time to time with things that will be in the next major version of Gallery ( Gallery 2.1 )

The list so far:

Features for 2.1

• AJAX Slideshow
• Profile & Menu bar links per Community Blog
• More user friendly permission manager
• Personal upload area*
• Ability to choose image to represent an album or category
• Better multi-mod in albums
• Ability to turn off "private" albums for members
• Buddy Permissions / Group albums
• Ability to store images on another server**
• Proper GIF support
• More display codes ( Flash, mp3, etc )
• Email notifications on new images/comments
• Friendly ( short ) url's to albums and images ( ie mydomain.com/community/gallery/?image=45 )
• Picture Tagging
• Ability to disable Gallery on a per group basis
• Option to upload a user thumbnail instead of generating one
• Redesigned Upload Page
• Static Import ( Point Gallery to Image locations, but don't copy or move the originals )
• Moderator Pane - Easily find comments and images that need approved
• MP3 Id3 Tag support
• Independant Category settings ( watermark, thumbnail, medium sized images, etc )
• NEW Image size selection on Slideshow

If you have a particular feature or suggestion you would like to see in 2.1, post it here and if enough customers seem to be in favor, I'll consider adding it in for 2.1

*By Personal Upload Area I mean having something ( possible AJAX enabled ) where you can just drop down a little area no matter what category/album you were in ( granted you have the permission to post images ) and directly upload media/images into that area

**This is a big maybe for 2.1, still exploring the options

You've probably heard enough from me in the other topic but I'll add my suggestions in here anyway so it keeps everything together. I'm not very techy so I'm going to try to explain what I want to the best of my ability, if something isn't clear let me know.

1) It's been mentioned but here it is again "Ability to choose image to represent an album or category" - that's a *must* IMHO.
2) Perhaps I'm missing this (I can't see it though) but it would be nice to be able to arrange files by the filename.
3) Is it possible to have the gallery set up in a different directory to the forum, so it could be reached at www.domain.com/gallery? At the minute the gallery seems like an add on to the forum but I'm hoping it's able to develop beyond that, although it's still vital it intergrates with IPB - using the same members list etc... Right now my gallery is a part of my forum whereas it should be a part of my site. Like I said, not sure if that's even a possibility but it would be nice.

Out of interest when can we *roughly* expect 2.1?

Not sure about #1 but I *definitely* agree with numbers 2 and 3.

I think bulk import options should be improved upon for 2.1 I found them to be very cumbersome in 2.0.x series of the Gallery.

I am now on my second version of the gallery - before the last upgrade to the 2.0.4 I asked if it was possible to have any comments left on an image emailed to the image poster (I run a digital scrapbooking site) people like to know when people are commenting on their hard work..... I was promised (yep promised) that this was being added to the next version - I have the next version now and as far as I can tell it is still not an option.... (mind you I think there was a mess up with my intallation from your gallery team as my gallery does not show up at all in my Admin CP - but I have raised a ticket for this) so I could be wrong - maybe it is an option now and I just dont know it.

1.Would be nice to be able to turn off the the creation of the middle images (they take up a lot space when you have a large gallery).

2.Would like an option to limit the number of images per time period (be that daily weekly etc) that a user can upload..
This means one user doesn't flood the site with 40 images in an hour and means everyone gets a chance to see recent images uploaded easily.

3. Would be nice to change the orphan file system so it stores a valid directory listing. with the current setup if i import images into the database it sees them as orphan entrys because it doesn't recognise the images as being in a valid directory. (this is a huge need for anyone wanting to transfer from another gallery system to use the invision gallery system)

As suggested in this topic, most important in my opinion:

• Make it possible to subscribe to any category and get notified when new images are posted
• Get notificantion when someone comments on images you've posted feature
• An option to allow admin to approve members album/images before they're public (Very important)
• Mark categories that have new images since your last visit
• Goto last uread comment markers

Happy to see the notification feratures in the above post. I hope to see them all...

Sort by latest action in the image list, similar to default topic ordering on IPB.

1. Permission rewrite .. (you should be able to have groups who do not have access to the gallery).

2. Refactor.. There are a lot of queries that should be moved to the task manager.

3. The orphan scanner functions need to be re-written (they should be written like the default IPB orphan scanner) ... as in their current state they try loading every single image into one giant array , also they are using the db to verify location .. not the hard disk like they should be..

ZeKinder just look at the rebuild functions in the sources/action_admin/rebuild.php for how it should be implimented..

The codebase is being heavily reworked for Gallery 2.1, this thread is more for aesthetic features and suggestions than the inner workings of the product itself.

For the code side, the MySQL RAND query is being redone, permissions are being rewritten, category/album relation is being redone, and Gallery's library functions are being split into smaller, more manageable classes.

Course, most people won't notice the backend improvements

Buddy Permissions - is this not allready a feature? [I havent actually used my gallery since the upgrade - I moved it to a site in construction] I remember you said it was in there, but turned off only for the beta's? Whats happened about this?

Thanks

rss - is this goign to added into the gallery to allow it provide feeds the same as the forum?

The reason I requested #1 was simply because my gallery is showing completely bizarre images at the minute that don't really represent the albums very well. I'd naturally assumed you'd be able to choose which images are used as the thumbnails. I think maybe it's my own fault for not reading more about the gallery though. It's very much a small add on to the forum rather than a stand-alone gallery - like coppermine.

I'd hoped by purchasing the gallery too that when Dynamic is released I'd be able to have my whole site running through Invision products. As it stands though I won't be using the gallery, which makes me question whether IPD will be for me either.

The ability to change the image rating range, say from 1 to 10, etc
Would be a 'nice to have'

I was wondering if the ability to create sub-albums within sub-albums will be added in a future release?

My members are used to being able to create a single album within a main category that they can put all their sub-albums into. Right now in order to allow that I would have to create a main category for each member and then they could create all the albums they want in there.

I'd like to be able to create this kind of structure:

Main Category
--Member #1's sub-album
| |
| --Member's sub-sub-album #1
| --Member's sub-sub-album #2
|
--Member #2's sub-album
| |
| --Member's sub-sub-album #1
| --Member's sub-sub-album #2
| --Member's sub-sub-album #3

Best regards,

Steve

I, and my members are happy with the gallery, we only want one simple thing, a link from postbit if the member has a gallery, i still cannot believe it wasnt in this version

Just a small suggestion. Nothing major, but when you click on either the latest/random images on the gallery index, it doesn't actually take you to that image, but the category that image is it, so you would have to actually search for the image in the sub-categories, like with member galleries.

So, if possible, in the next release make it so that the image links to the actual image location/information other then having to search through the categories yourself?

you may need to open a ticket , if i click an image in latest or random from index it takes me to the picture i clicked on

Oops, i think i mixed myself up .

When it doesn't take you to the actual picture is when you click on the latest members gallery picture on the index.

Sorry for the mixup . *I need sleep*

Actually that was the default way in Gallery 2.0, but everyone raised so many complaints that it was confusing their users that I switched it to "click on last uploaded, go into the category" instead of "click on last uploaded, go to image".

Oh, just seems kind of weird to me becuase you'd click the image and inorder to find it search through all the member galleries inorder to find it 0_o.

Unless there is just another way i am missing.

For the sake of consistency, would it be possible to link member names to their user profiles rather than their album collection... especially if a member's gallery link is added to the user profile page?

nice little option would be the ability to turn of ratings for a categorys (and possible albums) by member group.
at present its either on for everyone or off for everyone, which means guests can vote again...and again...and again..and again..
also means you can't have an area where you don't want votes.

would also be nice if it could read some exif/IPTC info from images.
(usefull to stop people posting copyrighted images )

Exif extraction will be in 2.1 for sure. As I was working on Gallery issues over the past few months I took note of everyone that was running PHP 4.3 and above, and had --enable-exif in their config lines. It was too risky to include with 2.0 as not everyone had the proper extensions and PHP version, but I think it's safe to say a majority has the functionality turned on now.

ze Kinder - anyword on when we'll see 2.1? I've revenrted back to my old coppermine gallery for the time being but I'm hoping that the next version of IPG will suit my needs.

Would like to see link to members gallery in their profile as well as below their avatar in a post.

Herman

One thing I would really like, would be "Attach Album to Post" but I suppose its more of an IPB feature.

Yes, that would be a great thing to have.

Something I would like to see as a feature ... http://forums.invisionpower.com/index.php?...opic=177207&hl=

Keith

I would aso like to see the addition of the Add Image to Post option. Would be kind of nce if it could be done in the same kind of way as Smilies at the moment. ie you click on a link to pop up a window that will allow you to select an image to include in the post. The other alternative would be to have a "clipboard" style system where you can browse a gallery and add images to your clipboard for use in posting in the forums. Once you create your post you can then launch your clipboard and click on the apropriate image to add it to the post. I apreciate the extra amount of coding this would require but with the release of IPD coming in the future I'm sure it would be a nice feature to be able to use this for IPD content too.

Another feature I would like to see is the ability to link your galleries directly to the blog. Not sure of the status of this but I remember hearing the idea being thrown around before.

Grooverider

its really weird as it seems every thread this has come up in noone from IPB has commented on it, one of the simplist features that ties the two products together and its repeatedly overlooked, i dont get it

Ability to use a different skin set for the gallery, as well as individual albums etc.

Not sure if this has been suggested but how about a large text capacity album description field. The existing one is no good if you want to provide a larger amount of text to describe or talk about the images in your album without wanting to type the same text for each images comment.

Amen to that.........................................

Really needed !

When rating an image via the drop down box on a thumbnail you are brought to the category the image is contained in. What if you are trying to go through the members gallery and rate them? The thumbnail dropdown should return you to the page you were on. This would eliminate all problems.

Also can Ajax be used instead so there is not a page reload? Just something to think about.

because the last x comments are not laid out in the same way as the other extended stats the setting does not interact well. It should have its own setting for how many to display.

Also it needs to do the following. If you set it to display 25 for example, each page needs to show 25, there needs to be pagination links on it and you need to be able to go back all the way to the begenning that way. If someone were to say go away for a week, coming back and only being able to see the last 25 is insufficient. It is really a basic feature, one that would not be very hard to add.

Yes please. It's about time this gets added in.

The gallery needs to do more to inform the users of upload limits. It needs to tell them exactly how much space they have left, how big upload limits are for pictures and multimedia, it just needs to get that kinda info out there more.

I've been working on this for quite some time*:
Click to view attachment

It's the new rating interface, just hover over the stars up to where you want to rate the image and click. It's controlled by AJAX, so it'll auto blank out and give you a 'ratings recap':
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The same interface is on the actual image pages as well. It also eliminates any possible ratings tampering.

The screenshot is from a copy that is under heavy development for IG 2.1, so the way everything looks in the screenshot may change drastically.

*First person to catch the reference gets a cookie

It looks very promising Adam! Keep up the good work!

Can we please have pagination at the bottom as well for members albums?
It's so very strange that it is not there, since this option is available in categories and all other IPS products.

That's a definite, it was more of an oversight on my part that it didn't get added by default to Gallery originally.

Very nice Adam, I like it.

Thanks a lot!

If you try to comment on an image that has been deleted (you loaded the comment page and in the time period between that and when you hit the post button the image was deleted) you gt a DB error. Now obviously I understand why, however the user should never be exposed to an mysql error. Is there anyway to add some checking to make sure the image is still there when submitting the comment, and if it is not give a nice IPG error page or something?

That looks good, it would also be cool if it pulled how many voted from the db

Average rating from x ammount of votes.

Any news on if we can have the ability to attach an album to a post or topic? similar to the blog? either in next IPB version or gallery version?

Thanks

I would very much like to see a "Directory Style" layout option. See for example This gallery.

I also would like to see a Thumbnail field so one can manually add thumbs if needed.

While we're at it, could we please move the Users Browsing above the Statistics to keep things consistent with IPD and Blog?

That's more of a bug, I'll open a reminder bug report in the tracker for it.



That, like a few other things related to tighter integration, will have to wait until more hooks and API's are added to the board. We've been discussing integration options in our meetings, and are working towards making the products integrate more seamlessly.



I've been designing several different layout handlers, I'll add this one to the drawing board. Gallery 2.1 will also ( hopefully ) have the ability to 'skin' different albums, just like you can skin the forum.



Yes