Searching Galleries

[F Troop]

How you we search for a specific members gallery? Thinking I may want to see what certain members have done without having to page through them all

 

[housecarl]

Search for the member whose gallery you wish to view.
Go to their profile page, and click on galleries.
Hope this helps,
Carl.

 

[theBaron]

Search for the member whose gallery you wish to view.
Go to their profile page, and click on galleries....

That's how to do it, now. But Rick raises a good point-there is no feature in the Galleries section to search for a specific gallery. There should be.
I work in software development. This is what we would call an enhancement request, a request for a feature or functionality that doesn't currently exist, but that customers would like to see.

I would write a user story, as it's called, to describe the requested feature, something like this:

"As a member of PlanetFigure who likes to view members' galleries, I would like to be able to search for a specific member's gallery from the Galleries area, so I can find it in the fewest clicks possible."

And then it'd list out acceptance criteria, that we'd use when we build and test the feature and make sure we're following the story:

"When on the Galleries page, https://www.planetfigure.com/useralbums/, the application presents a search feature
Searching on a member's name returns the main page of his gallery
if there is no gallery, indicate this to the user"

High-altitude detail, leaving things like the actual code, tools, etc to use to the developers.

Of course, the story undergoes review to decide if it's something we can do. Maybe it doesn't fit in with the current design of the application, for example. Otherwise, we plan when we want to add it.

Now, that's in a commercial organization. In our case, with an all-volunteer organization maintaining the site, that's another factor to consider, the developer's uncompensated time. Maybe the forum's software includes such a feature, maybe not. Maybe it's a lot of effort to implement it, maybe it's relatively easy. Factors like those all get considered

So, there's a little look into my world as a quality assurance analyst and business analyst.

Anyway, it would be a nice feature to have, if it's possible to do, all things considered.

Prost!
Brad

 

[Mike - The Kiwi]

Hi Brad,
Totally get “User Stories” from work & nice example shared here mate.

How you we search for a specific members gallery? Thinking I may want to see what certain members have done without having to page through them all

Good question, though I’ve personally not spent much effort on setting up Gallery, instead chosen to share my projects on VBench.
Not sure how many others have taken this approach for their “artist portfolio”.

Carl’s suggestion is what I do, though choosing “ Message Threads by Author” to review what an individual has shared.
Trust some of this helps.
MikeTheKiwi

 

[theBaron]

Even to organize the gallery pages with an alphabetical index would make it a little easier, more intuitive, to find a member's gallery with fewer clicks/steps. Present a list of letters/numbers in the Galleries page header, and then we click the appropriate letter/number and get a page with galleries by members whose forum handle falls into that category.

Prost!
Brad

 

[Nap]

Hi Guys

Personally I don’t have a Gallery , like Mike using V bench and completed forum to post

I must admit to hardly looking at any galleries though

Ref Brads ideas which I think are good , I’ll message Admin with this thread link , he’s very busy atm though

Nap

 

[F Troop]

I think I may have opened a can of worms!!!! I personally would like to see an alphabetical galleries index listed by user name. That way I can follow my favorite painters over time. Even thought about creating a gallery myself.