Sort by Category/Collection, album icon generation

[Philippe Bernery]

Hi everyone,

I just started to use digiKam to manage my photos. I use version 2.8.0,
packaged with Kubuntu 12.10.

I search the Internet and the user manual how to sort my albums by
category (or by collection as written in the manual). I set a category
to one of my albums to test the feature, however I cannot find where I
can select "sort by category/collection"  in the menu or in the toolbar.
In the manual, it is said to select the View -> Sort albums -> By
collection but I do not see any "Sort albums" sub-menu, only "sort images".

Also, I read and saw some screenshots about image icon in place of a
folder icon in the album tree view. I manage to set an image icon from a
photo manually but I wonder if there is a way to let digiKam select an
image automatically. I read in the manual that digiKam should take the
first image of an album for that but it seems it does not work here.

Thank you for your help.

Philippe
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[tosca]

I'm not sure which manual you're refering to... I'm not aware there is a document that reflects more or less the current state of Digikam; but I might have missed this interesting piece of documentation. ;-)

As far as I know, albums/sub-albums have always been sorted in alphabetic order; so I simply prefix them with an appropriate number so they are sorted according to my needs. And it is always possible to rename albums if you want to change the sorting order sometime in the future.
By the way, there is an album category feature (see Configuration -> Configurer Digikam -> Catégories d'albums - in the french version) that might allows you to sort albums by category; I've never used it (yet) but it might do the trick you're looking for.

I've never seen a way to automatically assign a picture to an album icon... but these icons are so tiny (I use the smallest so I can display much information) that I don't assign picture to them; I'd rather rely on meaningful album names to manage my collections.

Hope this helps,
Marie-Noëlle

2012/12/22 Philippe Bernery <[hidden email]>

Hi everyone,

I just started to use digiKam to manage my photos. I use version 2.8.0,
packaged with Kubuntu 12.10.

I search the Internet and the user manual how to sort my albums by
category (or by collection as written in the manual). I set a category
to one of my albums to test the feature, however I cannot find where I
can select "sort by category/collection"  in the menu or in the toolbar.
In the manual, it is said to select the View -> Sort albums -> By
collection but I do not see any "Sort albums" sub-menu, only "sort images".

Also, I read and saw some screenshots about image icon in place of a
folder icon in the album tree view. I manage to set an image icon from a
photo manually but I wonder if there is a way to let digiKam select an
image automatically. I read in the manual that digiKam should take the
first image of an album for that but it seems it does not work here.

Thank you for your help.

Philippe
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[Philippe Bernery]

Thank you Marie-Noëlle for your answer.

Le Sat Dec 22 14:56:57 2012, Marie-Noëlle Augendre a écrit :
> I'm not sure which manual you're refering to... I'm not aware there is
> a document that reflects more or less the current state of Digikam;
> but I might have missed this interesting piece of documentation. ;-)
I am refering to the manual accessible with F1, in section Albums
View/Managing Albums. Below the Figure 2.1, the second point talks about
Album Collection.

> By the way, there is an album category feature (see Configuration ->
> Configurer Digikam -> Catégories d'albums - in the french version)
> that might allows you to sort albums by category; I've never used it
> (yet) but it might do the trick you're looking for.
This is exactly the feature I am refering to (in french too ;)). I
assigned a category to one of my albums but could not figure out where I
can sort my albums by category and actually see these categories.
Any thoughts?

> I've never seen a way to automatically assign a picture to an album
> icon... but these icons are so tiny (I use the smallest so I can
> display much information) that I don't assign picture to them; I'd
> rather rely on meaningful album names to manage my collections.
I did not know about the custom album icon size, good to know.
Anyway, this was more out of curiosity than anything else.

Philippe
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