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True permalink for photos? #suggestion


 

I have seen the following advice regarding linking to album photos.

¡®Each photo in your group has a URL of the form:
/g/GROUPNAME/photo/ALBUMNUMBER/PHOTONUMBER?(starting at 0)¡¯

However, the photo number appears to rely on the photo number as determined by name order and with the ability to change the name and add or delete photos (quite expected photo album tasks), this would then seem to result in different links to the album photos. Is this correct, and if so, is there the equivalent of a permalink to a photo that will not change when other photos are added/deleted or the photo name is changed?

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Andrew Dumbleton


 

On Sun, Jul 29, 2018 at 04:34 PM, Andrew Dumbleton wrote:
However, the photo number appears to rely on the photo number as determined by name order and with the ability to change the name and add or delete photos (quite expected photo album tasks), this would then seem to result in different links to the album photos. Is this correct...
Yes, it seems to be correct. I was able to change the "photonumber" by simply editing its description.

...and if so, is there the equivalent of a permalink to a photo that will not change when other photos are added/deleted or the photo name is changed?
I've been fiddling around with this for the last 20 minutes, right-clicking and saving download links and such. So far the answer has been no...the URLs for each photo seem to be dynamically generated.

Hope this helps,
Bruce
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Andrew,

is there the equivalent of a permalink to a photo that will not change
when other photos are added/deleted or the photo name is changed?
Apparently not, according to Bruce's tests.

It is something I wished for long ago, but hasn't happened yet:


That thread is locked, but perhaps the topic of Permalinks to resources should be brought up again in beta.

Shal


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Okay, thanks both. Tagged as a suggestion, but if not dealt with from the historical thread, I guess not a priority. It does make the usefulness of a photo url questionable to anything other than the groups.io album functionality. Oh well, {sigh} ;-)
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Andrew Dumbleton