On 11/05/2014 14:37, Fæ wrote:
With regard to the hyphen, I tried padding the fields with a space, but the padding gets trimmed again by GWT. Unfortunate, particularly as including renaming as part of automated house-keeping is not very good practice, even for new uploads.
Based on a separate discussion with David H., I may defer this run until GWT can allow a custom template option; hopefully in the coming week. Although I would like to use the default Artwork template, these oddities of automated formatting (mandated creator template, forced filename structure, html codes rather than characters) are creating a programming burden on my volunteer time that it would be sensible to avoid.
Fae
None of the latter (mandated creator template, forced filename structure, html codes rather than characters) are problems with the {{Artwork}} template.
They are all design choices made by GWToolset, regardless of the template used.
The filename thing can be worked around (or at least this is what I did with the BL pics), by pre-processing the XML file to add a new field your own filename, and then using this new bespoke field as the "unique identifier". The downside (IIRC) is the GMToolset will still try to add the "Title" field, so this needs to be left empty.
The FIXES needed to GWToolset that therefore suggest themselves are: (1) Add a space either side of the hyphen, when creating compound filenames (2) Add a checkbox, to turn off the creation of compound filenames, or, alternatively, to enable the user to nominate which fields will be compounded, rather than inevatibly using the title-field.
The html code thing is also something that needs to be FIXed. (IIRC, I flagged the same thing six weeks ago, and eventually fixed mine with an AWB run; but then I was only uploading 430 images).
GWT was also suppressing <br> and <p> tags when I used it. I don't know if that is something it is still doing?
-- J.