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#26 Re: Backlight 2 Support » Change email username » 2018-12-31 09:06:22
Ben,
I see that, but I am trying to change the username used to logon to the SMTP server, not the email address.
Paul
#27 Backlight 2 Support » Change email username » 2018-12-31 01:07:33
- kolohe280
- Replies: 5
I'm probably missing something obvious here, but......
I need to change the username on my email configuration. When I edit the parameters, that field is greyed out. I'm using the "mail" configuration option. If I click SMTP on that pulldown, it isn't greyed out, but that doesn't help. So, I thought, I'll go into phpliteadmin and change it there. No go. I get this error message
sizeof(): Parameter must be an array or an object that implements Countable in phpliteadmin.php on line 1501
I'm going to have to turn on recaptcha, since some bot has figured out how to fill in the form!
Paul
#28 Re: Backlight 2 Support » Infrequent internal error with publisher in BL2 » 2018-11-21 00:54:21
This happened to me a while back, and it was because I had images with the same filename but different filetypes. For example, abc.dng and abc.jpg from my phone.
I was actually kind of glad that BL threw an error, since I didn't want to publish both of them 
#29 Re: Backlight 2 Support » A couple of small issues » 2018-11-21 00:49:59
Thanks, Ben.
#30 Re: Backlight 2 Support » A couple of small issues » 2018-11-19 00:27:01
Sent.
#31 Backlight 2 Support » A couple of small issues » 2018-11-18 11:36:50
- kolohe280
- Replies: 4
Today I encountered a couple of small errors.
The first one occurs in the Backlight Publisher. I have album sets for each year in my photo collections. The Backlight Publisher seems to not like all numeric album set titles. I was using it today to set the cover image (the web pulldown lists are a lot nicer than the ones in Lightroom!) and it would not save the changes. If I changed the Album Title (should it be called Album Set Title) to something with an alpha character in it, the changes took. I could change this back to all numeric in Lightroom with no problem.
The second problem occurs in the Lightroom publisher. This could be a LR issue, but it didn't happen in Backlight 1. I started an album publish task and realized there were some other changes I needed to make. I clicked on the "X" in the LR progress bar to stop the publish. The progress bar went away, but the publish task continued until it finished the entire album.
#32 Re: General » To Lightroom or not to Lightroom » 2018-10-20 01:25:10
Have you looked at Backlight2? It's not a standalone program (well, from an ex-system-programmer point of view, no desktop app is standalone), but it doesn't require Lightroom.
#33 Re: Backlight Support » Using both Logo and Navigation in Header » 2018-10-19 07:12:22
As far as fonts go, I'm using Adobe fonts. You just have to use PHPlugins to add the necessary code. It was a lot easier than I thought it was going to be.
#34 Re: Backlight 2 Support » LightRoom Publishing oddity » 2018-10-18 23:41:04
Taking a closer look at that album, I did have images with the same filename. Usually, I mark those not to move to my Backlight catalog, but I forgot that step this time. Oops.
#35 Re: Backlight 2 Support » LightRoom Publishing oddity » 2018-10-18 07:56:03
Yes. I should have mentioned that everything Backlight-wise is up to date.
#36 Backlight 2 Support » LightRoom Publishing oddity » 2018-10-18 06:35:06
- kolohe280
- Replies: 4
For the first time in a while I published some photos this afternoon. Just to increase the number of variables, since the last time I published something I have upgraded to Backlight 2 (which is wonderful), and yesterday LightRoom updated to release 8.0.
I started the publish from the album set for 2018. It worked through 3 albums with no problems, but when I got to the 4th one, several of the photos failed to upload with this error:
An internal error has occurred: recordPublishPhotoUrl: must be called after recordPublishedPhotoId
After this happened for a couple of photos, I clicked on the X on the progress bar. The progress bar went away, but the upload continued. The only way to stop it was to shutdown LightRoom.
After I restarted LightRoom, I tried to publish just the one album, and the above error continued. I moved on to the next album, and it uploaded correctly, but all of the photos were placed into the "Modified Photos to Re-publish" category. I published this album again, and everything was fine.
The final album uploaded with no issues.
I then went into the admin page, deleted the album with issues and went back to LightRoom. It published correctly the second time around.
#37 Re: Backlight 2 Customization » Create a custom image loop w/ PHPlugins » 2018-10-11 11:19:59
That question was probably from me, and was something I added on to a somewhat unrelated topic (bad me).
Is there some code I can look at lists all the data/function calls that are accessible? Examples are great, but I'm an old mainframe guy who was accustomed to volumes and volumes of documentation that listed everything. I don't mind hunting through the code to figure it out, but I have no idea where to start looking.
Thanks!
#38 Re: General » Backlight Hosting? » 2018-10-05 00:11:41
1and1. Been with them for going on 20 years. Backlight works great on their service.
#39 Re: Backlight 2 Support » Slight bug in phplugins-pangolin-sample.php... » 2018-10-05 00:08:51
I've done that, Rod. But I don't see anywhere that gets into the actual data that I have access to. I am using phplugins to add some headers to my pages and support Adobe fonts, so I'm familiar with it.
#40 Re: Backlight 2 Support » Slight bug in phplugins-pangolin-sample.php... » 2018-10-03 23:22:24
I've been interested in the possibilities of this feature since I saw the announcement, but I've been wondering where to look to find information and what information is available and how to access it.
#41 Re: Backlight 2 Support » Backlight 2 installation - Database update failed » 2018-09-19 00:24:42
While I'm not in Germany, I use 1and1, which I believe is based in Germany. I've been with them for close to 20 years and have never had any significant problems with their service, just a few little ones that most of the time were because I wasn't paying attention. Backlight works great there. Their prices are very reasonable for what you get, at least by US standards.
#42 Re: Backlight Support » Multiple top level gallery folders » 2018-08-19 04:42:37
Thanks, Rod. The support of this product is one of the reasons I will gladly pay for the V2 upgrade. If I could get answers this quickly for every piece of software I use, I'd be a happy person indeed!
#43 Backlight Support » Multiple top level gallery folders » 2018-08-19 02:54:12
- kolohe280
- Replies: 2
I've been doing some digging around in the forum for posts related to this capability, and they answer all of my questions except one.
If I decide to do this, I understand that I would need a second publisher instance in Lightroom. The question is this - does this second publisher instance need to reside in the same catalog as the first one?
I don't see any reason why it would need to, but I obviously don't know the inner workings of Backlight.
Thanks, Paul
#44 Re: Backlight Support » Galleria thumbnails are blurry & other Publish Service questions » 2018-02-24 05:14:46
Regarding publishing more than one album at a time......
Lightroom will allow it. All you have to do is go to each album and click on publish and it will start multiple publishing streams. However, don't do it!!! Either Lightroom of Backlight (not really sure which) can't handle it, and you will end up with messed up galleries on your site. Some of the things you'll see are captions missing and photos out of order. It's easy to fix, but a waste of time.
There is one way that does work, but it won't apply in all circumstances. If you have a collection/album set defined in the publisher interface. you can click on it (bringing up the display of all the photos in the set), and then click on Publish, and it will work it's way through everything in the albums in that set that needs to be published. Since that does them one at a time, things don't get screwed up.
#45 Re: Backlight Support » Can't update this collection error » 2017-11-08 15:37:45
I'm using 1and1, and running Backlight has been completely painless. No problems of any kind.
#46 Re: Backlight Support » Search function questions » 2017-09-25 02:32:28
I guess I would have found that page if I hadn't limited my search to backlight!
Thanks!
#47 Backlight Support » Search function questions » 2017-09-25 01:54:33
- kolohe280
- Replies: 3
A couple of questions about search (I've tried searching the forums for this information, but it's possible that I'm not good at searching )
What data is search searching? I'm guessing based on what I see that it looks at the title, caption and keywords. Anything else?
If I enter multiple words in a search does this result in an AND or OR of those words?
Is it possible to search for a phrase or other more complex things?
Thanks!
#48 Re: Backlight Support » Distorted thumbnails » 2017-09-04 03:16:02
After taking a look at what I'm trying to do, don't spend a lot of time trying to fix this on my account.
I've switched over to the Justified thumbnail layout. It seems to be working for me, and has caused a couple of other problems caused by some really long photo captions to go away.
I suspect there are other more pressing need for your time, Matt.
Great product, by the way! I waited a long time before buying, and I shouldn't have!!
#49 Re: Backlight Support » Distorted thumbnails » 2017-09-03 14:24:07
I see that now that I tried it on another album.
Might have to switch to another layout.
#50 Re: Backlight Support » Distorted thumbnails » 2017-09-03 12:09:25
I took a look at this with Chrome's developer tools (which I had never used before - pretty cool).
If I change the class of the IMG element from landscape to portrait, it renders correctly.
I'll leave it to those of you who have more in-depth knowledge of CSS than I to determine why