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#1 2017-07-22 23:01:33
One Lightroom Album, multiple albums online with search engine
I just thought of another solution to put online photos online with BACKLIGHT.
Usually, in lightroom, I make collections of albums, and in different smart album.
But what happens is that sometimes, an image can belong to several albums or categories. Hence the obligation to browse the different smart albums to update them ... and can be long...
What I thought, would be to make only one album with all the pictures and check "Hide from album set".
Once online in the admin of Backlight, it would be enough to create searches with keywords or city etc. these search modules would appear like albums, or it would be enough to assign them online in the admin of Backlight to Albums set.
The advantage, we spend much less time to update in lightroom (just a single album) then we could easily redesign the Albums set or search in Backlight online.
I do not know if I was very clear but it seems to me that the time saving and the flexibility would really be at the top.
Is it possible?
Nico
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#2 2017-07-22 23:36:03
- rod barbee
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Re: One Lightroom Album, multiple albums online with search engine
This is certainly possible, in fact, Monte Trumbull has done something very much like you describe. On the front page of his website you'll find some thumbnails at the bottom. The first two, Recent Additions and Personal Favorites, each link to a different search term and open an album based on that search:
https://www.montetrumbull.com/
You would just need to write the urls such that they use your search terms.
Rod
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#3 2017-07-23 00:56:45
Re: One Lightroom Album, multiple albums online with search engine
Ok not bad indeed!
The only thing I wonder is how he managed to remove the result rows "Albums" and leave only thumbnails "Photos" on a search result page.
Also, is there way to sort the search results. I used to name my files with the date and sort them from the newest through the option in Lightroom Backlight Plugin with: "Photos Order" "Order by Filename - Descending" ?
Thanks Rod
Nico
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#4 2017-07-23 01:06:46
- rod barbee
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Re: One Lightroom Album, multiple albums online with search engine
The only thing I wonder is how he managed to remove the result rows "Albums" and leave only thumbnails "Photos" on a search result page.
You can remove the Albums and Photos titles by blanking out those fields in Backlight > Publisher > Settings > Search
then custom css to set the search result breadcrumbs to display:none;
Also, is there way to sort the search results. I used to name my files with the date and sort them from the newest through the option in Lightroom Backlight Plugin with: "Photos Order" "Order by Filename - Descending" ?
I don't think so. Ben or Matt would have to comment on that though.
Rod
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#5 2017-07-23 08:31:17
Re: One Lightroom Album, multiple albums online with search engine
OK Rod, I see thanks
I will look at this in detail when I have time
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