Uploading photos to album creates activity without album's description [MOVED]
By User on Saturday, 09 February 2019
Posted in Feature Requests (Not Supported)
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Hello. Steps to reproduce:
1. Navigate to main photo gallery (All albums page)
2. Create new album with intereslong and long description
3. Upload photos to this album
4. Navigate to main stream

Resilt: You can see in stream activity item about it, but it doesn't contain an album's description. To see description, user need to open album in new page (90% users doesn't know that there is somewhere interested description [story] and they can't read it - they just looks at photos from the stream).

Expected result: I suppose it should work like a video adding. When we add video, we can see videos's description in stream. So album's description should display to.

Is it a bug? Or need to be suggested in another section? Or you can provide some code for me to improve it?

Thanks.
Hello. I customised file:
...templates/my_joomla_template/html/com_easysocial/stream/photos.php

and added this line to the end of file:


<?php echo $this->html('string.truncater', nl2br($album->_('caption')), 150); ?>


Result at the screenshot. Now users can read story about photos (albums description) in dashboard and timeline. And it display "More..." link if description is very long. People likes the idea. No there is no need to leave dashboard and navigate to album to read description.

May be you can add it as default feature?

But I have to edit one language string. Change it
COM_EASYSOCIAL_ALBUMS_STORY_PHOTOS_DESC="Photos that are uploaded for the stories."
to
COM_EASYSOCIAL_ALBUMS_STORY_PHOTOS_DESC=""
because users don't need to see text "Photos that are uploaded for the stories."
User
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Saturday, 29 June 2019 04:31
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Hi Dmitry,

It is not a bug, where it is intended behavior. Perhaps, if you have feature request to be suggested, can you create a new ticket under feature request, so that our developer can keep track the feature that can be implement in the future
Muhammad Fadhli
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Monday, 11 February 2019 10:33
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Hi Dmitry,

Kindly find my response for your inquiries below:
Result at the screenshot. Now users can read story about photos (albums description) in dashboard and timeline. And it display "More..." link if description is very long. People likes the idea. No there is no need to leave dashboard and navigate to album to read description.
May be you can add it as default feature?

Thanks for your insight on this. It could be best if you submit a new ticket under feature request so that our developer can keep tracks the feature that can be implement in the next release

But I have to edit one language string. Change it
COM_EASYSOCIAL_ALBUMS_STORY_PHOTOS_DESC="Photos that are uploaded for the stories."
to
COM_EASYSOCIAL_ALBUMS_STORY_PHOTOS_DESC=""
because users don't need to see text "Photos that are uploaded for the stories."

I am not really sure why you do not require the text to be display, but you always do language override for this by go to
1. Extensions>languages>overrides>select language>click new button.

Hope this helps
Muhammad Fadhli
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Monday, 01 July 2019 10:44
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Nice solution @Dmitry; I was looking for exactly that!


For those of you who are looking to implement this while using the mobile template the code inserts into the file:

.../components/com_easysocial/themes/wireframe/stream/photos.php on line 31 so it displays on top of the photos. Insert it right above the opening DIV tag.



<?php echo $this->html('string.truncater', nl2br($album->_('caption')), 500); ?>
Maarten Elout
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Thursday, 26 September 2019 18:09
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