Browsemedia Medialinks

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Browsemedia Medialinks
Summary In browsemedia.php, makes the media links more accessible when one media item has a long list of media links.
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Mod Updated 13 Mar 2023
Download link For
TNG 14.0
v14.0.0.1b
For
TNG 13.0
v13.0.0.1
See the Revision History for older versions
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Author(s) Robin Richmond
Homepage Robin Richmond's Genealogy Database
Mod Support My Mod Support form
Contact Developer My Mod Support form
Latest Mod 14.0.0.1b
Min TNG V 12.0
Max TNG V 14.0.4
Files modified
browsemedia.php
Related Mods
Notes

Purpose of the mod

This TNG modification makes the media links more accessible when one media item has a long list of media links. It changes the Browse Media results table so that all of a Media Item's linked items are displayed in its "Linked to" cell (not just 10), but, if there are more than 10 links,

  • The height of the cell is limited, and the cell will have a scroll bar
  • The number of links is displayed at the top of the list, and
  • An "Expand" button at the top of the list expands the cell height so that all of the links are visible, and expands the cell width a bit to help balance the results table.

Mod Options

none

Other Mods

  • This mod saves data that can be used by the Show Mod Names utility mod, but is not dependent on that mod. I know of no dependencies on other mods.
  • This mod is related to Browsemedia Search Form, which makes some of the same changes as this mod to results table columns. As a result of these duplicated changes, if you install both mods, the second mod causes "Not Installed" messages in the first mod. But uninstalling the second mod cleans up the discrepancies.those errors.

Conflicts

I have checked the TNG Wiki mods that say that they change browsemedia.php. I could not download three of them. Of the others, only one presented a conflict:

  • Media display columns mod, which changes results table column sizes in six end-user programs. I don't understand why it does what it does to browsemedia, and I don't see a way to resolve the incompatibility.

If you find any other incompatibilities, please let me know.

Installation

This mod uses the normal installation process. It does not define any language strings.

[Show Standard Installation Process]

Requirements

  • A working TNG installation.
  • An installed current version of the Mod Manager.
  • You should backup files listed in the panel on the right.

Procedure

  1. Remove and delete previous version of this mod.
  2. Backup the files updated by this mod. They are listed in the panel at the upper right.
  3. Download the .zip file, Extract its .cfg file to the mods folder.
  4. Follow the normal automated installation for Mod Manager, as shown in the example Mod Manager - Installing Config Files.

Problems?

  1. Try using the Mod Manager Remove capability
  2. Contact me through My Mod Support form.
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Visualizations

Results Table BEFORE:

For the second photo, 17 medialinks are listed (I don't know how it focused on that number)

Browsemedia medialinks-before2.jpg

The ['More Links'] link loads the Show Media page, where the additional (not the first 17) links are listed.

Browsemedia medialinks-before-showmedia.jpg
Results Table AFTER:

The first several links for the second photo are shown as the page loads. You can scroll through them, or click "Expand" to list them all without scrolling.

Browsemedia medialinks-after1.jpg

Revision History

Mod Version TNG Version Date Note
v14.0.0.1b 14.*-14.0.4 13Mar2023 Upgrade to TNGv14
v13.0.0.1 13 12Oct2020 New mod

Sites using this mod

If you download and install this mod, please add your TNG site to the table below:

URL User Note Mod-Version TNG-Version User-language
Robin Richmond's Genealogy Database Robin Richmond Mod developer 14.0.0.1b 14.0.4 EN
MOTYER & BENJAMIN Family Genealogy (Bermuda branches) John Mark Motyer Public site See here See here EN
Joseph Oran Holtz Genealogy Pages Jim Holt Private See Here See Here EN
Bastiaanssen Genealogy Jan Bastiaanssen Public / Private 14.0.0.1b
TNG 14.0.5
NL,EN,ES