I enjoy looking at everyone's pictures in the personal galleries, however most users don't have pictures posted.

Due to this it is very annoying to have the "Gallery" button enabled on the message window when users don't have pictures available. When I first used the "Gallery" feature I went through several users just to find that they didn't have any pictures. So what I've found now is that I never click on the gallery button unless a user specifically mentions that there are pictures available.

If I could see from the read message window if a user had pictures I think that this feature would be used much more often.

BTW, this is the same from the user profile screen. It shouldn't have an active link to users' pictures if no pictures are available.

Thanks,
KeithB

Keith,

At some point the 2 seperate databases will be cross-linked to do a check whether an image exists for that user and if so show the gallery link and if not to omit it. I have it on my list of things to do but lots of stuff back burnered now as we carefully migrate to faster servers this week and also bring some other stuff online. Will get to it along with some of the other suggestions here recently though!

thanks.

I'm in the software/online services business too (on the development side), so I understand EXACTLY what you're going through . One's got to have priorities and this probably is not a very high one, but it would be nice.

BTW, I fully understand the extra hit you'll have to take in checking the second DB when drawing the message page. When you get around to this feature it may be best to keep a flag with the user profile that indicates if there are pictures rather than hit the picture DB each time. Of course, if you do this then you'll have to update that flag anytime the picture gallery DB is updated.

The work never stops does it

Just to let you know, I think you've done a really good job so far. I especially like the spell checker ability.

What company did the basic forum package and what does it run under (ASP, .NET, etc.)? Did they provide the complete source? It appears they must have with all the changes you've been able to make. (Don't worry, I'm not a competitor, I'm in the financial industry )

Thanks,
Keith

Keith...vbulletin.com provides the base package...I took it from there...php and mysql backend...

thanks for the kind words too!

regards,

marc