The native TNG search form and pagination controls in browsemedia.php are laid out and interact differently than in other TNG search pages.
This mod reconfigures them so that, for example, the pagination controls are now adjacent to the "Matches x to y of z" message,
and both are below the the search form.
Under the control of three mod configuration settings:
A "Media Collections" selection box is displayed so users can more easily switch to another collection,
while keeping the current search string and tree.
An information icon is placed next to the searchstring field. The popup help text is
An information icon is placed next to the Gallery button, to explain what "Gallery" means and does.
In the results table:
The fixed-width "Info" column (which is often empty) is allowed to float with the results table.
The fixed width of the "Linked to" column is enlarged.
If more than one tree is active in the search, there is now a column for the tree ID.
When "All Media" are being displayed, there is now a column for the Collection.
The results table is no longer forced to be the full width of the page.
Samuel Davis Matheny's Kids Top Row: Elizabeth Rains, Janette Garrett, Jane Young Bottom Row: Emily Clark, William Grimsley Matheny, Mary Ann Smith, Keziah Vick
Samuel Keebler, 1804 - 1892 Many thanks to Janelle Walker Warden for this portrait, which she copied from the Brabson Family Papers donated by her Brabson family to ETSU's Appalachian Archives. Samuel Keebler was the youngest son of Jacob and Mary Young Keebler. He never married, moved with his family from Kendricks Creek (Fordtown) to Cedar Branch (Bowmantown). He and his sister, Mary Ann Keebler, raised nieces Mary Ann Prudence and Caroline Ingersoll after their mother, Catherine Keebler Ingersoll died. Samuel left his home to Mary Ann Prudence. Sadly, Caroline Ingersoll died at age 20, before she could marry and have children. When Janelle sent this picture, I couldn't believe I was actually seeing the legendary (to me, anyway) Sam Keebler. Am so happy to know what he looked like.
Si (Josiah) Kuykendall and family Si was an uncle of my great grandmother Olive Irene Kuykendall. Franklin and Emily were his son and daughter-in-law. and Pearl and Bill were Franklin and Emily's children (Si's Grandchildren). Pearl was born in 1885.
Site of Joseph Hull's house SITE OF THE HOUSE BUILT BY REV. JOSEPH HULL WHO WITH ELDER THOMAS DIMMOCK WAS GIVEN THE CHARTER FOR THE LAND NOW OCCUPIED BY THE TOWN OF BARNSTABLE. "Hull moved to the Plymouth Colony, and then to Barnstable. A memorial tablet was dedicated there in 1939 (the 300th anniversary of the town's founding) marking the site of his home there, and the rock from which he preached still stands in the middle of the highway there." Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Hull
Media items (whether images, PDF files, word-processiong files, web pages, recording, videos, etc.)
saved within this application are listed in a database table that describes the media item
and points to its file.
They are organized into "Collections" by their content rather than by the file format.
This search focuses on the "photos" collection and selects items if
the search string is found in one of these three database fields:
Title. Titles are hyperlinked at the top of the Description column
in the results table below.
Description. Longer than the title, but usually no more than a few lines long.
BodyText. This can be an arbitrarily large block of text with rich formatting
(i.e headings, lists, borders, backgrounds, colors, hyperlinks, etc).
The bodytext sometimes just adds a bit more information beyond the description and
and sometimes it is virtually a full web page.
But most media items do not have a bodytext value, ,
(The bodytext is not shown on this page.
You can see it only if you view the media item by clicking on the image thumbnail or hyperlinked title.)
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What's in the 'Gallery'
The Gallery shows just thumbnail images; no descriptive text to identify media items. It may be useful only for photos.
Significantly, media items without thumbnails do not appear in the Gallery.
Media items that are not likely to have thumbnails include
Non-images such as Word documents, PDF's, HTML pages, etc.
Images that were scanned from books and other documents.
In truth, it wouldn't be hard to generate thumbnails for those images,
and some do have thumbnails, but it isn't generally worthwhile to do so, since
thumbnails of scanned documents are usually too small to reveal anything useful about the document.
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Media 'Collection'
This site uses thousands of media files including many types of images and documents. To facilitate various aspects of file management, they are are broken out into what might be called a functional categorization the we refer to as "Collection".
Some (not necessarily all) of the active collections are:
Photos - Most photographs of people, places, and things.
Histories - Stories and other narratives that are not primarily focused on data.
Censuses - Images of census worksheets from national and state censuses and other similar accountings of the people in a given place at a given time.
Documents - All other representations of formal documents such as marriage, birth, death, military draft, naturizalization, and graduation certificates; church and town birth, marriage, and burial registers; city directories etc., etc., etc.
Headstones - Photos, maps, and documents tied to an application feature that focuses on finding graves and headstones within cemeteries.
Clearly, many, files could be logically be assigned to different collections, and other potentially-useful collections come fairly easily to mind. But these functional collections are much more useful than a breakdown based on less ambiguous file formats.
This help message window can be dragged out of the way,
and left on the screen as long as you need it.
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