Community @ The Turning Gate

Hi there,

I have Backlight installed since some time and set-up my galleries, but actually never published it, since it is so slow.

I read through some topics in this forum also discussing speed problems, but all seem to be different and some never have been solved.

However, in my galleries it takes about 10 seconds to come from one picture to the next, quite exactly always the same, no big difference in speed.

I have the same images in static galleries (the ones actually published) using the old TTG Lightroom plugin. Here it takes only a fraction of a second to browse through the images. So it should be something with PHP, Backlight or between the two.

To compare you can look at the static version https://www.entscheidend-is-aufm-platz. … index.html and the Backlight version: https://www.entscheidend-is-aufm-platz. … 017_03_16/

On my webspace PHP 5.6 is installed. Unfortunately they wrote that SQLite is not available for newer PHP versions, whyever.

I also looked on this http://backlight.theturninggate.net/doc … e_settings and noticed, that on my webspace the settings are by default already on the values suggested to change to. i.e. PERSIST/OFF.
I did not try to change them instead to the values that are described as default on your help page, did not want to break anything not knowing if this change could be helpful for speed problems at all.
Is it worth a try to change the settings to DELETE/FULL?

Summary:
- Should I try the DELETE/FULL settings for SQLITE?
- Any other idea?

Thanks,
Markus

Hi,

I have downloaded the latest v2.2.2 r3 and wonder how to proceed for upgrading from version 1.1.1.

My theory according to the changelog:

do: **v1.2.0** (2017-06-30)
skip: **v1.2.1** (2017-07-07)
skip: **v1.2.2 Release 1** (2017-07-18)
skip: **v1.2.2 Release 2** (2017-07-31)
do: **v1.2.2 Release 3** (2017-09-10)

Assuming to find the required directories/files for the 1.2.0 procedure in the 1.2.2 r3 download as well.

Thanks,
Markus

Good day,

1) I have some problems with the size of the thumbnails:

I have set all thumbnail sizes I could find in templates (both album set and album templates) to 168 width + 168 height.

I republished an album from Lightroom, the width of the thumbnails in Backlight now is 168, but the height is whatever it takes to keep the correct aspect ratio having a width of 168. I would expect that 168 is used for either height or width whatever if larger and the other dimension is smaller to keep the correct aspect ratio. Is my expectation wrong or are there some settings missing from my side?

2) How can I customize the header section of Backlight pages? I mean the area above the navigation area.
The only option I found yet is to set a Company Name in the Backlight Settings, which is displayed as text in the header.

Thanks,
Markus

Good day,

when I enter text in a Backlight page, Backlight seems to interprete some characters not as text.
E.g. a dash "-" or a number like "2." seem to result in effects like line breaks and the character itself is not displayed.

Is there a list of "forbidden" characters and the effects when using them? And can these banned elements be masked somehow so they are treated as text again?

Thanks,
Markus

Good day,

I wanted to move my Backlight page to a new folder for migration period.

Used to be in "domain", shall be in "domain/ttg".

I moved index.php and .htaccess to folder ttg,
moved folders backlight and galleries to folder ttg.

I can access the galleries with domain/ttg/galleries.
I can acess the backlight login with domain/ttg/backlight.

But if I try to login, I get
"Not Found
The requested URL /ttg/backlight/ was not found on this server."

The same for the search:
"The requested URL /ttg/backlight/search/ was not found on this server."

The other pages can be found, like the galleries themselves, the about and contact pages.

Obviously somewhere I have to edit some paths somehow, but where? In the administration or in the index.php?

Thanks,
Markus

Hi there,

I have a webpage with sport pics, the pictures are ordered by season, then by league, then by match.

So I created in Lightroom album sets for the seasons, then within each season album set the league album sets, then within each league album set the match albums.

Now I want to order it on top level by season year descending=latest first,
on second level by whatever league order I prefer,
on album level again by match date descending=latest first.

The result should be like this:

season 2017
- league A
>> match 2
>> match 1
- league B
>> match 2
>> match 1
season 2016
- league A
>> match 2
>> match 1
- league B
>> match 2
>> match 1

I gave all album sets and albums a slug so I could order it descending by slug to get the wished order.
So my slugs ordered descending would look like this:

2017
2017_02
2017_02_02
2017_02_01
2017_01
2017_01_02
2017_01_01
2016
2016_02
2016_02_02
2016_02_01
2016_01
2016_01_02
2016_01_01

The only place I found where I can set some ordering is in Backlight>Publisher>Top-level Galleries>Order Albums by, what I set to "Slug -descending".

As a result, I get this order:

2017
2017_01
2017_02_01
2017_02_02
2017_02
2017_01_01
2017_01_02
2016
2016_01
2016_02_01
2016_02_02
2016_02
2016_01_01
2016_01_02

Meaning, the top level is ordered by slug descending, the other levels ascending.

Is this a feature, or did I miss some settings for the lower levels?
And, do the lower levels order at all by slug ascending or maybe by whatever else criteria (creation date, title,...) leading to this result?

Thanks,
Markus