Edit a category
Informations
- name: rename the category (a virtual rename in case
of a physical category).
- description: short text giving a general idea of the content,
this text will be displayed at the bottom of the thumbnails page.
Move
If the category is virtual, you can move it. Moving a category means
changing its parent category.
Options
- Access type: Permissions management. If you make a
category private, all its child categories becomes private. If you make a
category public, all its parent categories becomes public.
- Lock: The category and its sub-categories will
be temporary disabled for maintenance.
- Comments: Authorize users to comment elements of this
category.
- Authorize upload: Authorize users to upload
images files. This option is available for physical (not
virtual) categories only .
You can also manage these options on the "Properties"
management screen (screens Upload, Comments, Lock,
Public/Private, Representative available from Administration, Categories, Properties).
Sort order
Use the default images sort order.
Indicate whether this sort order will apply to subcategories also.
Select specific sorting criteria to be used with this category.
- Creation date: Picture shooting date
- Post date: Synchronization date
- Average rate (*): Average rate could be changed by the visitor rating
- Most visited (*): The current visit might change the most visited order
- File name: Name given in information field
- Id: Internal Id (recent categories have an higher id than previous ones.
(*)Warning: Be sure to test these sort orders by yourself as they can give unexpected results.
Representant
The category representative is the thumbnail displayed on the main page (category.php) to represent
the category when
it contains only sub-categories and no direct element (just as the root category).
There are 4 different ways to set the representative picture of a category :
- Picture page: one of the action buttons let you set the current picture as the representative for the
displayed category. This button is available only for administrators.
- Modify informations about a picture in
administration. This screen can be reached from picture.php or Batch
management in unit mode. See the help of this screen for
details.
- Administration, Categories, Properties,
Representative. See the help of this screen for details.
- Edit a category (the present screen).
The choice of a representative depends on the
allow_random_representative configuration parameter (see include/config_default.inc.php).
In default mode (allow_random_representative set to false),
each category containing at least one element is represented by a fixed
element. Once set (at category creation), the representative changes only
when an administrator ask for it. If the representative is not appropriate,
you can ask to Find a new representant by random.
If the allow_random_representative configuration parameter is
set to true, a category containing elements may have no fixed
representant. Just use Delete representant button.
If the category contains only sub-categories and no element, it can nonetheless be represented by any element thanks to Modify
informations about a picture screen. The only option on the current screen
is the Delete representant button.
Link all album elements to a new album
- Virtual album name: Name of the new category to be created,
all pictures of the current category will be linked to the new one.
- Parent album: Where the new category will be,
leave empty to create it at root.
Link all category elements to existing categories
- Categories: Choose the destination category.
Send an information email to group members
- Group: recipients group
- Mail content: Free text to send to them.