Ordering the gallery view and editing multiple titles

[DavidB2026]

Hello,

I am progressing with the transfer of all my images from Multithumb to Phoca Gallery and have come across two issues I cannot solve so I would like to ask for your help again.

I am using J5.4.6 and PG 5.1.3. I have tried this with Chrome 149.0 and Firefox 152.0. In styles, all are published except for theme_standard.

Issue 1. I am unable to order the category view by title. This is the page I am working on: https://www.angloboerwar.com/photo-gall ... ure-groups

In options, Category view, Image ordering = Title Ascending.

It appears the sort order is derived from the id, not the title.

Whatever I set the Image Ordering to, the order is always by id ascending. Each time I change the PG Options I delete the server cache.

Issue 2. I have several thousand images to transfer. For each one I need to set the title. Is there a faster method than opening each image, editing the title, saving and then closing? I wonder if there is any sort of table or grid view that lists one image per line with the title editable? Or perhaps a 'Save and next' as an extra button. Can the title be edited directly via the table?

Can you suggest any solutions please?

With thanks
David

[Jan]

Hi, do you use plugin or component?
1)
Both frontend and backend have own ordering. For frontend you set the ordering in Options.

2) maybe you could use some database program like phpMyAdmin, where you can edit the titles at once on one site.

[DavidB2026]

Thank you for your reply, Jan.

I am using the PG component 5.1.3 and the PG gallery plugin 5.0.0.

It is the frontend where I am having difficulty. It seems that any setting for Options | Category view | Image Ordering is ignored. The category always displays in id order on the frontend. This can be seen with this page: https://angloboerwar.com/photo-gallery/ ... ure-groups I am trying to set this category to display in Title order.

In Options | Category view there is another option, Category Image Ordering. I do not quite understand this as the helptext explains 'If image will be displayed instead of Folder Icon in Category View, set which image will be selected (random, first, last, etc.). The options in the drop-down are not 'first', 'last' etc but the same as Image Ordering ie 'Ordering ascending' etc.

It seems that regardless of the setting of Image Ordering or Category Image ordering, the frontend always orders by id ascending.

With thanks again for your help
David

[Jan]

"I am using the PG component 5.1.3 and the PG gallery plugin 5.0.0."

I need to know which part do you use on the page where it does not work. If this is on plugin page, plugin has different functions to order the items than the component.

https://www.phoca.cz/documentation/77-p ... ery-plugin

See imageordering variable.

Jan

[DavidB2026]

Ah, I see now. Using this string ordered the images by title ascending.

{phocagallery view=category|categoryid=8|imageordering=3}

I had thought that setting the parameter in Options would have acted as the default for those articles where it was not explicitly set. But that was wrong. This explains why changing the setting in Options to any value had no effect.

Thank you. Happy to close this as resolved.

With thanks
David