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Hey?  They lied to me in my local WalkAbout bar?!?!?!? 

Hmm, I'm sure keywords could be made to work. 

With my working method, I place the pupilID into Metadata >> caption because this allows the most flexible options for file renaming and filenaming upon export.  The relevant head and shoulders images can be renamed upon export easily using Lightrooms {Caption>>} or {Title>>} as the export filename criteria. 

Lightroom will export keywords as filenaming criteria, but it just dumps all keywords relevant to that image into the filename (separated with spaces !!!, which as we all know, is a right pain the arse on unix hosting). 

If I'm honest, the best method for me would be to search only on filenames.  Exact relevant intelligent filenames (such as WP14-D01-123456-001) are easy to sort later on even when just viewing them on the remote server, and can be easily matched back to the printing  which always contains the filenames on the reverse of the print (called backprinting).  Parents printed proof cards always get the image filenames too.  I had a lab bill of over £11,000 last year, so you can imagine how easy it is for a random customer to simply turn the print over and I can match that to the Lightroom database in seconds and know exactly which school, year and even which pupil it is.

Also, at the moment all schools require images for the database importation to be named exactly as pupilID.jpg and nothing else 

Is the database able to search on image filenames or other metadata apart form keyword?

Thanks for giving this some thought Ben, I know I must be a right pain in the arse, and understand if you tell me it's not possible.

kris.

Edit - I'm not very familiar with Publisher, is it possible to have different publisher examples on different sub-domains?  For example, I might have scchoolname.schoolphotographerwebsite.com for each school.  This might simplify the database administration somewhat.

Thanks both.

Maybe more of a background may be useful?

I shoot numerous schools, amongst other things.  Each school has a SIMS database, where each pupil has a unique six digit pupilID.  This is gathered at shoot time for the schools image importation.

Photographers (the larger school photography companies) uses pupilID for parents to search on. It's ideal because it follows the pupil through their school career, so can see all their photographs from previous years   

However, it must return null if an exact match is not found.  It can't allow parents to guess a code or worse search on a wild card type part code and have the dB return all matches

More questions...

1.  With issue one above, is it possible to force the search to only use +criteria?
2.  I don't want to hide an album, just search only one database.  This might not be an issue though with multiple search criteria as long as they can choose the code for their school. (Wp14 above). 

For those images that are returned from the dB, is it possible that they can be added to the cart and then click on continue browsing and be returned to their search criteria images?  I'm assuming so. 

I don't have ce4 yet, eagerly awaiting cart launch.

I realise this is way above the ce4 intended usage.  I know tempest spent tens of thousands on their schoool photography  dB.

Thanks,
Kris

Not just me then...

Yes, I've taken to right click >> update with current settings rather than using the refresh button.

It can even do it on changing tabs in the web panel.

Seems to be fine under Win8.1 too.

It's largely irrelevant, as Fotomoto have been taken over by a lab in America, and will therefore use it to (quite rightly) feed their lab with prints.

Us in Europe shouldn't really be using a US lab for simple printing as it very environmentally suspect.

Fm used to integrate with Whitewall in Germany, but their prices were sky-high and their postage costs made them totally unrealistic. 

Use cart and self fulfill is the only real option.

http://theturninggate.net/2013/07/progr … ess-theme/

Final para.

Use an uptime monitor to give you exact logs of your 'downtime' and take that to bluehost. 

I use

http://www.uptimerobot.com/

and follow their simple instructions.  Make sure it looks for a specific insignificant file so that it doesn't interfere with your google analytic.

Some browsers won't (quite rightly) let you disable the right click whatsover.

Not all crawlers are benign.

Not all galleries (e.g. boudoir, wedding etc.) are public interest, even though held on a www server.

robots.txt is the standard way. 

Unfortunately, it is entirely voluntary on the part of the web crawler whether to honour it or not.

Hia all.

I have my upgrade discount code, but I cant seem to find the discount code text entry field in the check out.

I am assuming it is at step 2 in the process, but that comes after the requirement of typing in all my address details etc etc.  At the moment, I was just wondering what the discount actually is....

Am I missing something?

You should be able to add a 2nd email <fieldset> shouldn't you, assuming it doesn't break Matt's eula?