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Offline Jorgemonkey

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Exposure Manager upload question
« on: May 11, 2010, 05:34:30 PM »
So I'm starting to use the upload feature to upload the images directly to my EM galleries.  What I've found is when I upload the images, they are all set to "Print Ready" when they should be set to "Display only".  When I upload the images normally via my other FTP client, I have to log into the site, then specify which gallery the images goto, and whether they should be set to "print only" or "display only".  Is there a setting I'm missing somewhere in PM, or is PM able to change this setting for me?

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Re: Exposure Manager upload question
« Reply #1 on: May 11, 2010, 05:44:24 PM »
So I'm starting to use the upload feature to upload the images directly to my EM galleries.  What I've found is when I upload the images, they are all set to "Print Ready" when they should be set to "Display only".  When I upload the images normally via my other FTP client, I have to log into the site, then specify which gallery the images goto, and whether they should be set to "print only" or "display only".  Is there a setting I'm missing somewhere in PM, or is PM able to change this setting for me?

PM has no control over this setting.  It defaults to your user config settings.  Check your settings on EM and see if you can change the default behavior.

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Re: Exposure Manager upload question
« Reply #2 on: May 11, 2010, 06:05:14 PM »
As far as I can tell the default it display only.  When I upload via a different FTP client, I am able to specify which one is chosen, but it defaults to the "Display only" settings.

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Re: Exposure Manager upload question
« Reply #3 on: May 11, 2010, 06:10:07 PM »
As far as I can tell the default it display only.  When I upload via a different FTP client, I am able to specify which one is chosen, but it defaults to the "Display only" settings.

The API documentation for EM claims that there is a setting that can specify whether the job is print_ready, but PM doesn't provide the value to EM, letting EM use the default.  Here is what the documentation says:

   METHOD: POST
    Input:
        <uploadjob>
          <gallery uri=".../rest/gallery/sports" />     # required
          <settings
                    email_account_yn="0|1"              # optional, defaults to user config
                    process_subgalleries_yn="0|1"       # optional, defaults to user config
                    print_ready="0|1"                   # optional, defaults to user config
                    rotate="0|1"                        # optional, defaults to user config
                    position="0|1"                      # optional. 0=put images at the start of the gallery, 1=at end
          />
        </uploadjob>

PM send an empty settings key which should be OK since all of the settings are optional.  They're supposed to default to your user config settings.  You could contact them and ask them to see if they're handling the optional settings correctly.

In a future version of PM, we could provide that setting and set it to a default (print_ready="0")

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Re: Exposure Manager upload question
« Reply #4 on: May 11, 2010, 06:16:12 PM »
Sounds good, I'll go ahead and pass on the info to them & see what they say.