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Addition of cart to a test site went perfectly as per my previous post. However, adding cart to another site site seemed to go as well except that the cart buttons on thumbnails and large images don't do anything. On the home page, however the cart buttons work as expected. Only the galleries malfunction. Templates all have cart enabled. Publisher has been updated and all the galleries and albums have been republished after enabling the cart in lightroom publisher. Template cache and browser cache have been cleared. Granted, I've been at this now pretty much all day and it's quite possible my brain has turned to tapioca and I'm missing the obvious.
Site is here: http://markhoffmanphotography.com
Ideas?
Thanks Rod. In fact, John Beardsworth at http://lightroomsolutions.com/ had the perfect solution for this metadata conundrum in the form of a plug-in to copy metadata from basically any field to any other field. Quite handy. Very fast. Using it now.
Regards, Mark
Update to 1.0.3 went smoothly (following instructions to the letter) Updated Client response to 7.0.1, also smoothly (following instructions to the letter). Added Cart 400, piece of cake. Then! Drum Roll! Updated all of the cart settings from CE4 to Backlight (again, following instructions, very very very carefully). The pricing schemes, products, etc. were complicated and I was, admittedly, anxious. But everything fell into place like bricks in a wall. Beautiful work guys. Just one niggling little thing: I had my per/photo pricing scheme stored in the "headline" metadata field. So I had to edit the metadata on a couple hundred photos to put my pricing scheme in the "category" field, then republish. Other than that it's quite lovely. Anyone know an easy way to simultaneously take what's in one metadata field and copy it to another on a thousand or so images?
Regards
Mark
Test site can be seen at http://backlightpp.markhoffmanphotography.com
Be gentle. It's still a work in progress.
Cool. Simple enough. Will give that a go. Many thanks.
Hi Rod, As a matter of fact I did change .htaccess file on my main site as directed in the TTG post about fixing cross domain issues which it seemed I was having. I copied the fix and pasted it into the file. Thing is, I made exactly the same change to 2 other test sites that I'm running in subdomains and they both work fine. The site that crashed was not in a subdomain but in the root of my server. Naturally, as always, I'm confused as to why the subdomain sites continue to work fine but the root site does not. Any pointers?
Mark
Have discovered that all of a sudden I can no longer publish to my backlight site from within lightroom. This was working fine till now. When I try to check authentication from lightroom I get this error: Unable to perform action: checkAuth, Message: the page sent an action which was not available.
Anyone got a handle on this little bump in the road?
Mark
Cool site!
M
Echoing aebolzan's thoughts on how wonderful it is to have moved past the Lightroom Web module. Backlight is miles (or kilometers) ahead of Lightroom.
M
Hi Rod, yes I had clients etc in my CE4 site but now I'm backtracking on just how I got the ttg-be directory to the test site. Let me try a couple things in CPanel and I'll be back in a bit.
M
My bad. I moved what I thought was a current copy of the TTG-BE directory to the test site. Wasn't current. When I grabbed the correct directory and copied it into the test site, Viola'. All is well.
In my world, just cuz it sounds simple don't make it so.
M
Curiouser and curiouser. Now (several hours since I last tried the Migration), it works. Sort of. Nothing was changed in the interim. However, none of my clients are there but the conversion says it updated the databases etc. anyone else seeing this strangeness?
Test site in a subdomain with directory structure like this:
backlight/
galleries/
ttg-be/crg
Clicking Migrate CE4 Client Response Gallery
produces this error:
CE4 Client Response Gallery was not found
see http://backlightmarks-photos.markhoffmanphotography.com
ideas?
M
Um... OK. But menus in backlight don't go to individual albums, so I add this to the name of the directory listing in CPanel?
Thought I saw how this was implemented in the CRG documentation but I can't find it. I have this enabled in the album template but it doesn't seem to be working. Or, as is often the case, I've missed the obvious.
Markh
Confused. Photoswipe is gone. But where exactly am I supposed to append: ?reloadModel&skipCache to the end of an album URL?
Markh
Duh, it's in publisher settings. Didn't dig far enough.
I've created a template for the search page and applied it via templates>assign templates.
I added some text in the album copy section of that template but it doesn't appear on the search page.
I was betting there was a simple way to change what appears on the search page and I thought this was it.
I was wrong. What'd I miss?
Mark
At Matt's suggestion I did some trimming of the code above until it looked like this:
/*page column color gradient
==================================*/
.page__column.page__main {
background-color: #F1F1F1;
background-image: linear-gradient(180deg, #ADEAA8, #1A6A1A 100%);
background-attachment: fixed;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
}
/*page-body color gradient
=====================================*/
.page__body > main {
background-color: #F1F1F1;
background-image: linear-gradient(0deg, #ADEAA8, #60C75F 100%);
background-attachment: fixed;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
}
This seems to work just fine.
Mark
P.S. naturally the colors are the hex values after the #
and can be changed to suit your needs.
Thanks Matt. Good to know. Obviously, I'm from the "olden times", you know, last year.
3AM on a Monday and I'm busy fooling around with custom.CSS. Note to self: get a life. Anyway, to add a color gradient to the main column or page background you can add the following to custom.css, after making sure, of course, that it's applied to the template you're using. Disclaimer: I'm not a coder but I'm pretty good with an axe.
/*page column color gradient
==================================*/
.page__column.page__main {
background-color: #F1F1F1;
background-image: -webkit-linear-gradient( 180deg, #ADEAA8, #1A6A1A 100%);
background-image: -moz-linear-gradient( 180deg, #ADEAA8, #1A6A1A 100%);
background-image: -o-linear-gradient( 180deg, #ADEAA8, #1A6A1A 100%);
background-image: -ms-linear-gradient( 180deg, #ADEAA8, #1A6A1A 100%);
background-image: linear-gradient(180deg, #ADEAA8, #1A6A1A 100%);
background-attachment: fixed;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
}
/*page-body color gradient
=====================================*/
.page__body > main {
background-color: #F1F1F1;
background-image: -webkit-linear-gradient( 90deg, #ADEAA8, #60C75F 100%);
background-image: -moz-linear-gradient( 90deg, #ADEAA8, #60C75F 100%);
background-image: -o-linear-gradient( 90deg, #ADEAA8, #60C75F 100%);
background-image: -ms-linear-gradient( 90deg, #ADEAA8, #60C75F 100%);
background-image: linear-gradient(90deg, #ADEAA8, #60C75F 100%);
background-attachment: fixed;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
}
Regards
Mark
EDIT - see this at http://markhoffmanphotography.com
Suggestions for improvement, embellishment, or error correction are encouraged and gleefully accepted.
Ya! I had the eyeball. Wondered what that was, DUH. That link was bad temporarily as my home page suddenly disappeared, sort of. It somehow got its embedded album set to something else, lost its masthead, and just generally stopped working, for no apparent reason. Not sure what it was I did to fix it but it seems to be fixed now.
As for the hidden album, it is in fact really hidden when I open the site in a different browser where I'm not logged in to backlight. Thanks Rod.
M
Has a bit of a problem. I've created the custom-thumbnails album and checked the "hide from album set" and "hide from search" boxes but the album is still appearing with the other albums in my galleries page. See it here: http://backlightmhp.markhoffmanphotography.com
Mark
They weren't in the changelogs but... just wishing out loud.
Mark
I'll grab it. Thanks again.
That's fixed it. Thanks Ben.
Yup. And it seemed to go as expected. I can also log into Backlight on the site as usual.