Image count on hidden albums is incorrect

What's incorrect? Is something not getting counted or is something getting counted more than once?

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Figured this one out partially.

Looks like this is a problem with the Siriux theme. Siriux makes use of the following code snippet in its album.tpl:

{if ($child.descendentCount > 0)}
  {g->text text="%d Images" arg1=$child.descendentCount}
{/if}

I looked at the matrix theme to check how it handles this and then changed the above code snippet as below:

{if $child.canContainChildren && $child.childCount > 0}
  {if $child.descendentCount > $child.childCount}
    {g->text one="%d item total"
             many="%d items total"
             count=$child.descendentCount
             arg1=$child.descendentCount}
  {else}
    {g->text one="%d item"
             many="%d items"
             count=$child.childCount
             arg1=$child.childCount}
  {/if}
{/if}

It now at least shows some numbers. However, I still find that both in Siriux and Matrix themes the $child.descendentCount is always 0 for hidden albums. So for such hidden albums it always shows only the items that are contained immediately inside the album excluding items in sub-albums.

Any ideas why the descendentCount variable is always set to 0 for hidden albums?

Regards,
KH

The count stays 0 even after you have viewed the complete album.

In the example I provided earlier, there is a hidden album personal with another hidden album snow inside it.

The album personal has only one sub-album inside it and no other photos.

The sub-album snow is itself hidden and has 14 images inside it.

Hence, to begin with, the item count for the album personal can be expected to show 0.

However, once I have navigated to the sub-album snow, I would expect the descendant count for the parent album to show 14.

Well, it doesn't. The image count against personal when viewed from the root gallery still shows 1 item.

I disagree. Gallery seems to avoiding recursive counting for only the hidden albums.

For example, in mypictures if you check the item count for the albums "London" or "Trip to Italy & Spain", you will see the item count as "29 items total" and "205 items total" respectively.

Here, Gallery counts the items recursively. The album "London" has 4 images and one sub-album which in-turn contains 24 items (a total of 24 + 5 = 29 items total). Similarly the album "Trip to Italy & Spain" contains 4 sub-albums containing 97, 11, 37 and 56 items (97 + 11 + 37 + 56 + 4 = 205 items total).

The recursive counting doesn't work for hidden albums only.

Regards,
KH

It works just as I described above in the Matrix theme as well. For the non-hidden albums, the total number of descendants are shown. Notice the counts shown against the albums "London" and "Trip to Italy & Spain".

However, for the hidden albums of Personal and Snow, the count when seen in the root album only shows the child count and not the descendant count. I looked at the code and believe this is due to the variable descendantCount being set to zero.

Regards,
KH

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