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Moving an album hierarchy is error prone #920

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opened 2026-10-05 00:23:50 +02:00 by adam · 1 comment
adam commented 2026-10-05 00:23:50 +02:00
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I'm talking about page [Administration > Albums > Manage > tab Move]. Let's take the following situation (see screenshot) and you want to move album 1/ * to the root of your gallery. Many users will select all albums inside album 1, whatever their level. As a result, album 1aαis also moved to the root of your gallery, while you certainly want it to stay in album 1a :-/

Screenshot_2019-08-08 Une galerie Piwigo de plus Piwigo Administration

This is the number 1 reason why some users ask for a database restore among Piwigo.com clients. For me it's obvious we have here a UX bug.

What solution do we have here?

The simplest one, the one I like the most ;-), would be to simply remove this administration page. Moving albums is not a very common task and moving several albums at once is even less likely. You can still move an album by changing it's parent album on its edition page.

Other ideas?

I'm talking about page [Administration > Albums > Manage > tab Move]. Let's take the following situation (see screenshot) and you want to move `album 1/ *` to the root of your gallery. Many users will select all albums inside `album 1`, whatever their level. As a result, `album 1aα`is also moved to the root of your gallery, while you certainly want it to stay in `album 1a` :-/ ![Screenshot_2019-08-08 Une galerie Piwigo de plus Piwigo Administration](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/9326959/62714617-36480780-b9ff-11e9-8a8a-d8a3860f3a0f.png) This is the number 1 reason why some users ask for a database restore among Piwigo.com clients. For me it's obvious we have here a UX bug. **What solution do we have here?** The simplest one, the one I like the most ;-), would be to simply remove this administration page. Moving albums is not a very common task and moving several albums at once is even less likely. You can still move an album by changing it's parent album on its edition page. Other ideas? <!-- github-sync-id:478533445 -->
adam closed this issue 2026-10-05 00:23:50 +02:00
adam commented 2026-10-05 00:23:51 +02:00
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Piwigo 2.11 will bring a brand new "move & sort" album manager which should fix the UX issue.

Piwigo 2.11 will bring a brand new "move & sort" album manager which should fix the UX issue. <!-- github-comment-id:678624422 -->
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Reference: adam/Piwigo#920