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SunFoxNC

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Registered: 2015-09-04

Posts: 80

Order of custom thumbnail filenames in Publisher album set/album list?

I've got a custom thumbnails album for my publisher instance where I've been putting the thumbnails used in my album sets / albums and it contains thumbnails with filenames like this:

Mode                LastWriteTime         Length Name
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-a----        6/18/2017     11:31          55981 emw_20170604_115455_Studio5_Recital_1100_1512.jpg
-a----        6/18/2017     11:28          60486 emw_20170604_131122_Studio5_Recital_1100_4367.jpg
-a----        6/18/2017     11:51          65593 emw_20170604_135756_Studio5_Recital_1330_0583.jpg
-a----        6/18/2017     12:41          64767 emw_20170604_164938_Studio5_Recital_1615_0512.jpg
-a----         9/9/2018     22:59          57397 emw_20170921_201929_Gilbert_Evil_Dead_0097_thumbnail.jpg
-a----         9/9/2018     22:59          36878 emw_20170921_210719_Gilbert_Evil_Dead_1119_thumbnail.jpg
-a----         9/9/2018     22:58          69603 emw_20170921_215410_Gilbert_Evil_Dead_2092_thumbnail.jpg
-a----         9/9/2018     23:00          63212 emw_20170921_215456_Gilbert_Evil_Dead_2113_thumbnail.jpg
-a----       11/26/2017     18:53          31875 emw_20171122_202547_Its_A_Wonderful_Life_0485.jpg
-a----         2/3/2018     06:30          59637 emw_20180201_203333_Gilbert_Venus_in_Fur_0319_thumbnail.jpg
-a----         2/3/2018     06:30          67890 emw_20180201_211423_Gilbert_Venus_in_Fur_0956_thumbnail.jpg
-a----         2/3/2018     06:30          71589 emw_20180201_215301_Gilbert_Venus_in_Fur_1437_thumbnail.jpg
-a----         4/6/2018     12:27          60397 emw_20180405_202739_Gilbert_Antigone_D810_0107_thumbnail.jpg
-a----         4/6/2018     12:25          32054 emw_20180405_203008_Gilbert_Antigone_D810_0127_thumbnail.jpg
-a----         4/6/2018     12:30          50289 emw_20180405_204515_Gilbert_Antigone_D810_0286_thumbnail.jpg
-a----         4/6/2018     12:22          72989 emw_20180405_220950_Gilbert_Antigone_D810_0873_thumbnail.jpg
-a----         6/1/2018     22:13          36413 emw_20180531_201308_Gilbert_CatOnAHotTinRoof_0081_thumbnail.jpg
-a----         6/1/2018     22:14          53397 emw_20180531_202705_Gilbert_CatOnAHotTinRoof_0295_thumbnail.jpg
-a----         6/1/2018     22:12          61926 emw_20180531_205509_Gilbert_CatOnAHotTinRoof_0940_thumbnail.jpg
-a----         6/1/2018     22:15          56800 emw_20180531_214311_Gilbert_CatOnAHotTinRoof_1433_thumbnail.jpg
-a----         9/9/2018     23:12          50875 emw_20180908_181224_Pryer_Awards_2018_0011_thumbnail.jpg
-a----         9/9/2018     23:13          67235 emw_20180908_185404_Pryer_Awards_2018_0147_thumbnail.jpg
-a----         9/9/2018     23:10          41897 emw_20180908_204745_Pryer_Awards_2018_0676_thumbnail.jpg
-a----        9/23/2018     16:50          72490 emw_20180920_194432_Godspell_0006_thumbnail.jpg
-a----        9/23/2018     16:50          89557 emw_20180920_204842_Godspell_0677_thumbnail.jpg
-a----        9/23/2018     16:50          71607 emw_20180920_205336_Godspell_0811_thumbnail.jpg
-a----        9/23/2018     16:50          71241 emw_20180920_205737_Godspell_0920_thumbnail.jpg
-a----        9/26/2018     23:55          48609 gilbert_2012_2013_seasonposter.jpg
-a----        9/28/2018     07:31          40425 gilbert_2013_2014_seasonposter.jpg
-a----        9/26/2018     23:59          44810 gilbert_2014_2015_seasonposter.jpg
-a----        9/26/2018     23:58          54746 gilbert_2015_2016_seasonposter.jpg
-a----        9/26/2018     23:57          75395 gilbert_2016_2017_seasonposter.jpg
-a----        9/23/2018     15:57          41122 gilbert_2017_2018_seasonposter.jpg
-a----        9/23/2018     14:45          46829 gilbert_2018_2019_seasonposter.jpg

This custom thumbnails album is set to order on filename in Lightroom and if you look in the album in Backlight 2's publisher section, you can see that the filename sorting is respected.

But when the list of custom thumbnails are offered in the Lightroom Publisher plug-in popups for album sets/albums...the filenames offered in the list are presented in a random order making finding and selecting the desired custom thumbnail somewhat painful. 

Would it be possible to have that drop list offer the filenames in the custom thumbnail album's defined order?

Also, it'd be nice if I'm looking to choose from a custom thumbnail that only the custom thumbnails be offered in the drop list.  The current implementation seems to pull all of the potential thumbnails after the custom thumbnails are offered which for some of my albums can be a huge list.

Thanks! 

Ben

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From: Melbourne, Australia

Registered: 2012-09-29

Posts: 4,399

Re: Order of custom thumbnail filenames in Publisher album set/album list?

Thanks for raising this.  I've added it on my to-do list to look into

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Ben

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Ben

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From: Melbourne, Australia

Registered: 2012-09-29

Posts: 4,399

Re: Order of custom thumbnail filenames in Publisher album set/album list?

Further conversation can be found on this newer topic: http://community.theturninggate.net/mod … =10726&p=1

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Ben

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https://somethingchanged.com