Bulk Importer
| Most people get started quickly with the starter galleries and the sponsor hosted galleries, but many people quickly require the bulk import tools The bulk importer allows you to pull galleries in from text based files. You dont need to supply all the data, you can actually get by with just 1 url per line. |
A Bulk Import Tour.
| The full list of import fields are. | ||
| Position | Name | Description |
| 00 | Url | full url to a gallery including http:// |
| 01 | Category | (optional)Can be any category name, does not have to exist the script will create it. |
| 02 | Description | (optional)Any text string, but avoid commas and apostrophes and quotes. |
| 03 | Number of pics | (optional)You can force the pic count, but the script can scan and count pics. |
| 04 | Vote | (optional)A rating that you can set for the gallery from 1 best to 10 worst. |
| 05 | Thumb | (optional)A path to a thumb, can be local to the thumbs folder, or http:// on any server you like. Script will not hotlink but will import the thumb. |
| 06 | Keywords | (optional)A ist of keywords split by spaces, you can use these to squeeze the gallery into other categories later. |
| 07 | HASH | (system)This is used by the system as a check against duplicates, Comus creates a unique ID for each gallery that can stop galleries which have had their URL's modified, (say due to sponsor codes conversion), from being overwritten. In other words HASH's alow us to stop duplicates from creeping into multi site configurations. |
| 08 | Clicks | (system)The script can export the click count between sites, sometimes this is desirable when exporting to only grab the best clicked. |
| 09 | Click Periods | (system)The number of builds the thumb has been used before. |
| 10 | Rating | (system)The system rating performance score, this is a rather vague number though, and might mean nothing to your new site, because it is scaled by the amount of traffic a site does. It is however a good measure to export on, if you want the most popuplar thumbs to go to your new site. |
| 11 | DateRating | (system)The date introduced to the system, (submitted or imported). |
| 12 | Status | (system)The status of Approved or Pending or Dissapproved, etc, can be used to bulk remove galleries. |
| 13 | Click Power | (system)A system variable which measures the power of a thumb. |
| 14 | Srcx | (system)A value which tracks the start X position of the cropped thumb |
| 15 | Srcy | (system)A value which tracks the start Y position of the cropped thumb |
| 16 | Srcw | (system)A value which tracks the width dimension of the cropped thumb |
| 17 | Srch | (system)A value which tracks the height dimension of the cropped thumb |
| 18 | Srcu | (system)The URL where the cropped thumb was collected. |