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In Gallery Pro, there's the option to automatically create a post on a nominated Board and Topic ID.

There appears to be a similar feature in DownloadsPro but the TopicID is replaced with Topic Prefix:

"Information: If you select a board, on a new download that is approved a post will be created."

What needs to go in Topic Prefix?  I've tried using the Topic ID but this doesn't create the required post.

Gallery Pro 9.0.3 SMF 2.0.18

An issue has appeared today affecting those with permissions to upload pictures.  Admin doesn't have the issue which is as follows.

When selecting Add Picture the next screen allows the uploader to select a Category from a dropdown.  All available categories are shown.

Having selected a Category and then Add Picture, the next screen no longer shows the selected Category.  Instead it shows "Select Category" and the dropdown is restricted to only seven Categories.  Consequently most uploaders can't see their own Category to which they can upload pictures.

I've not made any changes to Gallery or the Forum.  Nor can I see what could have changed to cause this?

Can you help?

The Bulk Upload Many Pictures option is used a lot by my forum members. Typically using the maximum of 15 images at a time.

One of my regular contributors has asked if it's possible to (optionally) set the title to use the file name?  This would save time by not having to enter the Title.

For example if the Upload Picture file is named:

AAL-A319N744P.bmp

The Title would be the same.

Perhaps this could be a check box option at the bottom of the Bulk Upload page, something like the attached?

If a Title is used for one or more of the Bulk Uploads, this would be used even if box was checked.

Before I launched Gallery Pro on my forum, I bulk imported over 60,000 images.  These were placed into categories, one per image creator.  Typically thousands per creator.  This was a one-time process and new images are being uploaded by the creator to their relevant category with a custom field displaying the author's name.

Members are doing searches and mentioning results don't show the creator for bulk imported images.  I appreciate the author couldn't be attached to the bulk import (see earlier post).

However, is there an option to display the category under which the image is stored?

Does the Search support wildcards?

For example if I wanted to find all picture titles beginning with "G"?

Tried "G**" without success.

Is there a setting which will restrict a picture uploader to a specific category?

I have a Membergroup that can upload pictures and have set Categories for each member of that group (approx 10 members).  But they can upload pictures to any of the Categories.  Ideally I would like to restrict them to Uploading, Editing and Deleting only pictures in their assigned Category.

I was testing the Posting Option when adding a new Category to set a Board and Topic ID to post the new, approved image.

This worked OK.

Then I deleted the image and the original topic, including previous messages, has disappeared.  This may be a bug?

If I try to view the original topic I get the message:

An Error Has Occurred!
The topic or board you are looking for appears to be either missing or off limits to you.

The topic and messages are in the back-end database but I can't view them in the forum.

Two questions:

1. Is this a bug or feature, where deleting a single or multiple iamages "hides" the original topic?
2. Can I make the topic visible again, minus the messages associated with the deleted image(s)?  If so, how do I achive this?