A few newbie questions ...

[Thom]

Thanks to Pekka for the very cool EE, I've always liked his site and finally had to give it a try, but a few questions about 1.3 ...

Countries: I read on this forum that by setting Countries to 0 in misc settings (Index page) the line "Photos from United States", for example, could be suppressed. I've tried that to no avail, so I must have misunderstood. I also tried setting Countries to "No" in the Detail List Items 1 and 2, but I didn't think that would really work and it didn't. Anyway to edit that line out?

Locations on photo page: This may be more of a suggestion than question ... I'd like to display my locations, but not the country. The photoedit page seems to be all or nothing. Would this require a mod to the code (which I am not qualified to do)? Or maybe a way to add a "new" country that is really just a blank space so nothing gets displayed?

News: I set news to 0 in the Index page setting and the panel still appears, is there anyway to suppress the black News panel altogether ... and just have the Gallery selections displayed. I don't have much news to share for my purposes :-(

Categories: I've set up about 10 catagories, modifiying the default list and adding a few, but only 5 are available for selection from the dropdown menu when viewing the main gallery page ... is there a limit or do I need to do something else?

Navigation Bar: It displays fine on all pages, except the main gallery index page, again, what am I missing?

I would appreciate any help with these items.

Thanks,

Thom

[Pekka]

Thom wrote:
Countries: I read on this forum that by setting Countries to 0 in misc settings (Index page) the line "Photos from United States", for example, could be suppressed. I've tried that to no avail, so I must have misunderstood. I also tried setting Countries to "No" in the Detail List Items 1 and 2, but I didn't think that would really work and it didn't. Anyway to edit that line out?

You last question is related to this error. See below.

Locations on photo page: This may be more of a suggestion than question ... I'd like to display my locations, but not the country. The photoedit page seems to be all or nothing. Would this require a mod to the code (which I am not qualified to do)? Or maybe a way to add a "new" country that is really just a blank space so nothing gets displayed?

There is a country "n/a" which will display as "nothing" on photo page (and also remove the comma before location display).

News: I set news to 0 in the Index page setting and the panel still appears, is there anyway to suppress the black News panel altogether ... and just have the Gallery selections displayed. I don't have much news to share for my purposes :-(

You could do that by editing indexstyles, but if you're not fluent in php and html take care that you don't break it. I'll try to add removal of news bar when news are set to zero in next version.

Categories: I've set up about 10 catagories, modifiying the default list and adding a few, but only 5 are available for selection from the dropdown menu when viewing the main gallery page ... is there a limit or do I need to do something else?

Dropdown menu shows only categories which are _assigned_ to photos in photo editor.

Navigation Bar: It displays fine on all pages, except the main gallery index page, again, what am I missing?

All I can think of is that you still have version 1.22 indexpage code there. Upload 1.3 code into indexstyles and see that all files get replaced.

[Thom]

Thank you, Pekka.

Index page Countries & News: After reloading the indexstyles for 1.3 (guess I missed it somehow) I then deleted the country section and the news table and that accomplished what I needed (I'll have to learn how to comment out code in PHP) ... AFAIK I don't think I broke anything. When you make the country and news editors active for "0" I'll replace them (or use whatever upgrade indexpage you may provide)

Thank you for pointing out the n/a country for the photo pages and the category assignment rules. I only have one photo in the gallery right now, with "all" and "architecture" assigned, but five categories still dropped down, so that's what confused me. I assigned all the categories to the one photo as a test and yep, they all showed up!