Okay, I'm in love with keywords and the Position Descending sorting option.
However, after implementing the sorting gallery-wide today I discovered a few frustrating things.
After changing the "Default sort order for files" in the "Thumbnail view" settings to "Position Descending":1) In order for it to apply to an album I had to go into the "Sort my pictures" and apply it to the album, whether or not I moved anything.
2) After applying it to certain galleries that house images that are linked in other galleries, I discovered that they then were thrown sporadically into the other galleries and then messing up the order of the images in there.
Here, with pictures to explain:
What I want:(https://forum.coppermine-gallery.net/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi5.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fy160%2Famiyuy01%2Fother%2Fthumbnailorder-want.jpg&hash=df5d012ad52e7b5a848dbd43415516aad4ca8c07)
This is the way it looked before I did the "Apply Modifications" to the gallery that "PJ friends" is in.
What I have:(https://forum.coppermine-gallery.net/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi5.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fy160%2Famiyuy01%2Fother%2Fthumbnailorder-have.jpg&hash=c8e56696a3d60ad10cb3d2c78519a23d6535e2c8)
This album has 3 pictures directly in it and I sorted them to have "Heero pose," "Smile," and "Decals" as the first three images. "PJ friends" is linked from another Album.
However, when I did the "Apply Modifications" to the gallery that "PJ friends" is in it threw that image into the middle of the other images in this gallery. This is the easiest way to show it, but it happened with MANY of our albums and has thrown off a lot of the ordering that we had just fixed. Since I can't change the order of the linked images within that album, they're stuck there in the middle of the ones that I CAN change the order of.
After searching the forums for help I found this thread:
http://forum.coppermine-gallery.net/index.php?topic=20704.0However, I saw no update to it and it didn't address the problem with linked files, so I'm here asking for help to see if there is anything that I can do to fix this.
I need to be able to:
- Get linked images to show up at the end of the galleries instead of in the middle of the other images
And a bonus would be to:
- Change the way some albums are sorting thumbnails independently from the default setting of the gallery
EDIT:
This album is showing exactly what I want. I have done the "Apply modifications" to that album (Naruto) but have not to the album of the linked images that are displaying at the bottom ("Gaara, Hinata, Sakura, and Sasuke," "Magazine Page 6," and "Sakura and Sasuke") so the linked images are still displaying at the end of the main album.