Tag changes

Tag changes [Tuesday, 03 August 2010 19:45]

Written by Dan Brown

We've been wondering for a while if the tag/gallery link is unclear to people - It certainly seems so from the people we have watched trying to use Moa. I think it the best thing about Moa personally, but as that is subjective we plan to make a change to help clear up things.

So, for the next release the plan is to have a tickbox on each gallery that toggles between "fixed" and "live" gallery views. "Live" is the current system, tags decide what gallery an image ends up in to make the whole system dynamic. "Fixed" will be the default however, meaning that an image uploaded gets linked to that gallery (like a regular web gallery) and the tag field is then entirely optional. Both live and fixed galleries can be used anywhere and an image uploaded to a fixed gallery will be available for a live gallery to use, assuming it has tags. This will hopefully help people get up to speed with Moa as quickly as possible when they first start, but still allow them to play with the live views later if they want.

The change involved also makes some of our wishlist much easier, including re-ordering images, multi-page galleries, etc.

In other news, this next release (1.2.3) is looking to be a bit of a usability-polish. Currently we are hard at work improving the forms with tooltip help, field checking throughout and some HTML markup improvements. The other two features we want to get in place this time are URL rewriting (SEO-friendly URLs such as www.somesite.com/gallery/Regents_Park/612/trees.jpg) and searching, but those two depend on time.

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