I have a list of albums that I have created. One album represents a different artist. I would like to create a sub-album for some of the artists in order to separate some of their work by say media like pastels or acrylics etc. or by the type of art it is such as landscapes or abstracts etc.

Ideally I would like to click on one artist album and that that go to a sub album index with say tow or three thumbnails like landscapes and abstracts each going to different groupings of or sub-albums.

Is there a way to create more than one album below an existing album?

If this is not possible, any suggestions for a workaround would be VERY appreciated!

Anybody?

1. xcgallery 2.0.3 is based on CPG 1.1 (very odl version of CPG) - it means, you have got only the possibility to use keywords to create different kinds of searching.
2. You can try to use CPG 1.4.x and bridge it with xoops. That's external connection (CPG uses data from XOOPS tables), but inside CPG 1.4.x you've got a few new utilities, f.e. "virtual" albums (the possibility to place photo in one album and display it in others).

Hey Thanks for the help Panwac but I am not sure we understand each other or at least I am not understanding you. :)

I am not asking about searching. I just want to create an album beneath an existing album. Although I will want the existing search routine to see those Albums just like it currently does parsing title, keywords and custom fields. Is that what you mean about searching?

As far as the album configuration is concerned, perhaps the following example will be clearer.

When you click on the root album (Album-Artist 1 below) you see the two sub albums.(Landscapes & Abstracts)

Example:

Album 1 - John Doe Artist (Contains thumbs for sub-Albums 1A & 1B only, no other images.
- sub-Album 1A: Landscapes (this contains only landscape art photos)
- sub-Album 1B: Abstracts (this contains only abstract art photos)

Are we talking about the same thing?

With xcgal, you can nest categories, but not albums. But, using your example, you could have a category for each artist, with different albums for each type of work.

Are the images in each album user-submitted? I think that would make this more difficult, unless you created the albums and allowed public submission to those albums.

You can see how I have arranged albums in categories at Design n Bloom's web site

Thanks skenow that is certainly something to consider. However in most cases for my situation there is only one album per artist. It is only on occasion that an artist would have two or more collections of work that need to be separated.

Therefore it seems visitors would have to make two clicks deep to see the art work. I really like the one click from an index of albums from a visual and usability standpoint.

If there is someone out there who could code this feature, "nesting Albums", I would be interested in perusing the viability of that.

To answer your question, I will be the only one uploading art users will not.