Forum OpenACS Q&A: Pictures in photo-album folders

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1: Pictures in photo-album folders
Posted by Gabriel Burca on 05/27/04 10:50 PM
Is there a reason pictures can not be added to photo-album folders directly (only as part of an album)? I'd like to be able to upload a photo collection and retain the current layout. For example:

Folder1
    SubFolderA
        Photo1
    SubFolderB
        Photo2
    Photo3
    Photo4
Folder2
    SubFolderC
        SubSubFolderD
            Photo5
        Photo6
    Photo7

The equivalent thing could also be accomplished by being able to create sub-albums within albums (which is not currently possible either).

Does anyone know if there is a reason for these limitations, and if it is easy to remove them?

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2: Re: Pictures in photo-album folders (response to 1)
Posted by Jeff Davis on 05/28/04 12:50 AM
I think it's a historical artifact although maybe it has to do with the difficulty of subclassing content_folder. I think fixing it in the code (assuming subclassing content_folder is not hard) is not too bad but the upgrade scripts might be a little hairy.

It would be a worthwhile thing to fix, the current design is universally reviled.