Maybe fixed a collection double-creation bug.

Work around a bug in Lightroom 11.2 that causes publishing to get stuck. The workaround is to switch the view away from the collection being published. If the user does that switch manually, the bug goes away. This plugin update notices if the bug is being triggered, and if so, momentarily switches the view to the quick collection and back.

Removed a bunch of debug logging that was slowing down the LUA token.Newline

Work around a Lightroom "lua_gettop( L ) == 1" bug.

Added the WEEKNUM token, along with DAYNUM, weeknum, and daynum.

Whack-a-mole with PayPal's random changes.

Warn when PayPal seems to have given a bogus code in the web-confirmation page.

Replacing videos sometimes actually added instead of replacing.

It seems that Zenfolio can handle PNG uploads now.

Ensure all calls to Zenfolio use HTTPS -- some had been missed.

Enforce Zenfolio's limit on keyword length (200 characters or 400 bytes).

Fixed an issue with the {Newline} token, and added {Comma}, {Hyphen}, and {Space} for good measure.

Fixed a problem with filters on the {Keyword} token.

Things I learned today. 1) a recent change broke the plugin on Lightroom Version 2. 2) People still use Lightroom Version 2 (?!). 3) It's still possible to find a Lr2 installer download.

On certain network failures, report the "RayID" (a transaction ID) to the user, so that they can report it to Zenfolio.

Zenfolio has moved to all HTTPS connections.

Fixed that the Province template token did not respect the plugin-specific geo-privacy settings.

Added 'separated by' to the People token.

Added some special debug logging to help track down a keyword issue.

Reworked the Keywords token to better accept filters.

Added the ability to fetch image views at Zenfolio and display in a Publish collection

Added some extra debug logging to try to track down a problem.

working around 'constant table overflow' error

Added the ImageViewDirection and ImageViewBearing tokens.

Added the PF filter to turn typographic fractions into plain-ASCII fractions.

Updates for Lr10.

Added the SpeedKnots token.

Worked around an "unknown key captureTime" error.

Added the {PlusCode} and {GeoHash} tokens.

Handle the "All Except Camera & Camera Raw Info" metadata option WRT geoprivacy.

Some of the filename-related tokens could be incorrect in rare situations.

Fixed (I hope) a problem where republishing certain old photos would result in two copies at Zenfolio.

Work around a Windows bug related to canceling out of the registration dialog.

Added some extra debug logging to note whether the plugin is enabled.

Update for Lr9. I'm pretty sure that I had support for it in the previous version, but I'm pushing this out just to make sure.

Added the LensInfo template token.

Updated the Exposure token to allow customization.

More token work: added {Urls}, and updated {ISO} and {Copyright} to allow customization.

Added the {RelativeFolder} token.

Fixed the SST1 and SST2 tokens.

Updated the PublishCollectionName token (and CollectionNames and CollectionFullNames) to remove the MIRROR: prefix from the name that mirrored collections within my Collection Publisher plugin automatically get.

The plugin was incorrectly reporting a vague catch-all error when it could have been reporting a more-specific reason.

Added TempC and TempF to the template tokens that my plugins understand.

Added the TempC and TempF tokens.

Updated the keyword-related tokens to accept standard filters.

Work around a bug that sometimes causes plugins to be disabled when starting Lightroom via clicking on a catalog file.

Fix an "Unknown key: captureTime" crash.

Added the GPSCoords token.

Fixed a problem related to template tokens and photos without capture times.

Added functions uc(), ucFirst(), lc(), and lcFirst() to the LUA token.

Added the PEOPLE variable to the LUA token.

When not logged in, make it more clear what you're not logged into, and how to fix it.

Updated the alphabetical sort to be "sorta-smart alphabetical sort", whereby names that differ only by a number are sorted numerically. For example, "album2" properly falls between "album1" and "album3", but "album20" falls after. The former straight-up alphabetical sort put "album20" before "album3", which is ugly and unpractical.

Fixed a problem with the SpeedKPH token.

Finally figured out the “Assertion failed: packed” error.

Created a way to completely disable the fetching of photo comments from Zenfolio. Lightroom normally does this for every photo in a publish collection after every publish operation, and that overhead can be significant if you have many photos in your collection. If you never care about photo comments, you can now visit the Plugin Manager to completely disable the fetching and the overhead.

Make the template-editing window a big bigger in the caption editor.

Updates for Lr8 (Lightroom Classic CC Version 8).

Added the special PP() function to the {LUA} token.

Added hierarchical options to the Keywords token.

Try to work around a Lightroom bug related to photo timezones and how Lightroom handles accessing plugin data.

Added the 'nicknames' modifier to the {People} token.

Added the SST1, SST2, and SS3 tokens to the template tokens that the plugin understands.

Sometimes Lightroom loses the "Visit At... " link for a publish collection; dig harder to come up with it anyway.

Input fields that accept a location can now handle a What3Words code and a Plus Code.

Minor update for some error messages.

Try to avoid having unexpectedly-long error messages create too-big a dialog.

Note: this update doesn't address the "Service Unavailable" errors that many folks have encountered lately. That error is on Zenfolio's side, and seems to be unrelated to the plugin.

Fixed the album-create stuff to respect the "leaf-name only" setting.

Clicking on the version number in the Plugin Manager now copies version info to the clipboard

Updated the PublishCollectionName token to allow numeric arguments along the lines of the CollectionName token.

Added the folowing template tokens: {home}, {desktop}, {temp}, {pictures}, {documents}, IptcDateTaken

Added the 'PCH' variable to the {LUA} tag.

Fixed a bug when 'Token Examples' invoked in certain situations.

Added a bunch of token filters: F2D F2S F2X B2D B2S B2X S2X A2D A2S A2X

When encountering catalog corruption, present a better error message.

Added the {CollectionNames} and {CollectionFullNames} tokens to the data templates that my plugins understand.

Updated the Keywords token, and added the KWf function to the {LUA} token.

Updated Twitter support to allow 280 characters.

Lightroom on OSX 10.10 and prior can't work with web sites that enforce modern minimum security support. Zenfolio is starting to require that minimum support, so give affected users a more-informative error message.

Oops, more Lr7 stuff.

Updates for Lightroom 7

Better handle some character-encoding issues related to template tokens.

Allow the "If Exists" feature of template tokns to work with the PluginProperty token.

Update registration support to handle a stupid bug at PayPal that PayPal refuses to fix )-:

Better error reporting when trying to do something at Zenfolio that you don't have permission to do.

Fixed a bug introuded the other day in template tokens, related to Windows filenames.

Added the Newline template token.

Enhanced the FolderName token

Added the "only if it has a value" feature to template tokens.

When running into issues with Zenfolio, present more info that can be passed along to their support staff.

Added the following tokens to the template tokens that my plugins understand: Artworks, ArtworkTitle, ArtworkCopyright, ArtworkSource, ArtworkCreator, ArtworkDateCreated, ArtworkInventoryNum

When running into errors at Zenfolio, present some info that can be passed along to Zenfolio support.

Added "ISO8601Date" to the template tokens that my plugins understand.

Yikes, previous "fix" made some uploads fail.

Track changes in Zenfolio's third-party API.

Oops, yesterday's update caused all photos sent to Twitter to be marked as sensitive.

Retooled to use a new Twitter API, allowing photos not to take up any characters in a tweet.

Switch the log-sending mechanism to https.

When Zenfolio is having issues, try to report that more clearly.

Publish deletes were getting hung up.

If Zenfolio's servers had a meltdown and returned to the plugin a web page instead of the requested data, displaying the web-page code as the error message could cause Lightroom to crash, so don't do that anymore.

Got around a situation where Lighroom would crash duing an export of large images.

Better dialog real-estate managment for the meatadata section.

Added Weekday, Wday, weekday, and wday to the list of template tokens that my plugins understand.

Fixed a bug with the keyword tables in the LUA token.

Still battling some insidious errors hiding in there.

Try to get around some publish-collection corruption I've seen popping up.

Fixed the album-creation problem.

Added some debug logging to track down an album-creation problem.

Added the following tokens to the templates that my plugins understand: FileModYYYY, FileModYY, FileModMM, FileModDD, FileModHH, FileModMIN, FileModSS, FileYYYY, FileYY, FileMM, FileDD, FileHH, FileMIN, FileSS, {FilenameNumber}.

Some updates to support Lr2. Lr2 is sufficiently old that I will drop support for it soon.

Added the ability to repopulate smart collections.

Added Russian-langauge support for the People-Support {People} tag.

Fix to get around a Mac display issue with Lr6 on OSX.

Allow for username changes at Zenfolio. Also make sure that the "view at Zenfolio" link is correct for each published collection.

Added ChildOf and DescendantOf filters to the {Keywords} and {KeywordsAll} template tokens that my plugins understand.

Fixed a bug with the 'edit saved credentials' dialog.

Fixed how custom {People} formatting works with people keywords that have no birthday associated with them.

Try to avoid yet another place where Lightroom gets hung because it can't handle certain kinds of dialogs at the same time.

Update the status messages presented when creating a group from the Tools section of the dialog, to actually use the word "group" instead of "gallery".

Updated the Caption part of the dialog to show up to three lines of text, and the full text in the tooltip.

Added {SpeedKPH} and {SpeedMPH} to the list of template tokens supported by my plugins.

The {People} token wasn't working properly for some keywords without a registered birthday.

Updated Twitter support to better count lengths of tweets that include URLs.

Added the ability to have collections named just for the leaf album name at Zenfolio, rather than with the full hierarchical name.

Zenfolio changed how some of their back-end stuff works, and so the plugin needs to update Publish Services to match. This one-time change is done automatically the first time you edit a publish service, and should be invisible unless you have a lot of collections, in which case a dialog may pop up letting you know what's going on....

Don't report as an error if the network is down and you're just viewing a Publish Collection. When you view a collection, Lightroom asks the plugin whether the remote service is up, so as to make the comment-input box available or not. The plugin used to report a "retrying..." error if the network was down, but it should just do its check quietly in the background, so now it does.

Fixed the "SpecPeople:259: attemt to index al nil value" error.

Try harder to detect when Zenfolio is down for maintenance and report that instead of a generic error.

Video upload was broken for some users.

UI fix for OSX 10.9

Fixed an assert-failure bug that could happen when editing a collection's settings.

Adding the raw-upgrade option in the previous version caused a side effect of breaking most everything else for certain users. )-:

In the POODLE-vunerability dialog, display a raw URL of a page on my site that discusses the issue, so that folks can be independently sure that the dialog is indeed from me and not malware.

Add the ability to upload the master original along with an exported copy.

Updated the camera-name code to try to guess the actual camera model of Hasselblad H5D files, since in their infinite wisdom Hasselblad decided to encode three distinct models with the same internal code, making it impossible to know for sure what camera produced a given image file.

Fix to the date_diff() function supported by the LUA template token.

The Plugin-Extras dialog to resend metadata could allow the [Resend] button to be pressed when no metadata was selected, resulting in confusion.

Unlucky timing during an upload could cause an "Unexpected HTTP reply" error.

Added an "Export Location Override" section to the Publishing Manager dialog (when editing an existing publish service) that allows you to change the Export Location. I don't know why Adobe doesn't let you change it... it seems arbitrary.

Add a help dialog to the publish-services edit dialog to make it clear how to delete a publish-services collection.

Use a compressed view on the Plugin Extras dialog if the screen is not very tall.

When associating a previously-uploaded image to an entry in Lightroom, note the actual upload time (instead of the time the association was made) in the "Uploaded to Zenfolio" metadata.

Registration was broken on Lr2.

Plugin could block export with a "tweet text too long" even if the Twitter option was disabled.

Better debug logging of Twitter interaction.

Very long tweet text could break the dialog display.

Don't allow expert when we know ahead of time that the tweet is too long.

If twitter rejects a tweet (e.g. because it's too large), show the tweet and offer to allow the user to edit/resend at twitter.com

Added extra logging to debug why Lightroom might fail to render for export

Updated the Twitter support to allow my plugins' template tokens in the tweet text.

Made the {GPSAltitude}, {Altitude}, and {GPSCoordinates} tokens subject to the geo-privacy settings like the other geo-related tokens.

Fixed an issue with Creative-Cloud revalidation.

Lr5.5 and later Creative-Cloud installs can now revalidate themselves if needed.

Now supports Lr5.5+ Creative-Cloud Installs.

Added date_diff() and raw_time_diff() functions to the special {LUA} token understood by the plugin.

Add a note to the Keyword options to highlight that only exportable keywords are considered

Set up the ability to reauthenticate to your Zenfolio account from the Publishing Manager dialog.

Added new tokens to the template language the plugin understands: LrVersion, LrVersionMajor, LrVersionMinor, LrVersionRevision, LrVersionBuild, Location, CatalogName, CatalogPath, OperatingSystem, OS

Added new token filters: NS and LO

Fixed a bug in the "smoother revalidation" stuff recently added.

The {Empty} template token wasn't working properly.

Added a new "Location Privacy" section to the Exprt/Publish dialogs.

Updated the location-based tokens in the template language the plugin uses — City, State, Country, Location, Latitude, Longitude — to respect new privacy options in the Export/Publish dialogs, and in the resend-metadata dialog. You can override those options on a case-by-case basis with the evenIfPrivate filter.

Added locationIsPrivate variable to the environment available to the LUA token.

Added the "Recent Zenfolio Comment" custom metadata item, which holds the date of the most recent comment for a Published photo, in YYYY-MM-DD format. While in the "Published Photos" section of the Library Grid, you can set the Filter to "Recent Zenfolio Comment" and then scroll down to the end to see the most recent dates, and via that see the most-recently commented photos. It's a bit unelegant, but it's the best I can think of within the severe limits of Lightroom's plugin infrastructure.

Make the revalidation process smoother, especially for folks using Lr5.4 and later.

Enable a new feature internal to Lr5 for large exports that keeps the CPU from running too far ahead of the upload. Prior to this, Lightroom would go ahead and peg the CPU to pre-render all the images even if they weren't being uploaded at nearly the same speed. Now Lightroom pauses the behind-the-scenes rendering if it has gotten too far ahead of the upload.

A complete overhaul of the "Associate Images Automatically" code (in File > Plugin Extras > Zenfolio Extras). It's still a fragile process, but it might work a bit better now.

Added (to File > Plugin Extras) the ability to check the remote status to see whether uploaded photos are still there, and clear out data from the catalog when they are not.

Added keywords to the list of metadata that can be imported back from Zenfolio.

Added the “:EMBED” token filter to the template language.

Added a bunch of tokens to the preset templates supported: ExportFormat, ExportColorSpace, ExportBitDepth, ExportQuality, ExportSharpeningLevel, ExportSharpeningMedia, IpernityUrl, GoogleDriveUrl, and TumblrUrl.

The token-examples dialog had been broken. Also deprecated Folder and Path tokens in preference to FolderName and FolderPath tokens.

Work around a Lightroom bug concerning the determination of whether a photo is offline.

Added the ability to import titles and captions from Zenfolio back into Lightroom.

Made big updates to the "Export with Smart Previews?" section; you can now pick to be asked whether to export via Smart Previews, and can differentiate between when the Smart Previews are "good enough" for an export and when they are not. Moved to a more logical place in the dialog.

Fixed the KW/KWE tables in template tokens; they had been broken when using load for the script.

Moved the "Export with Smart Previews?" dialog section to a more-logical place in the order.

Work around a bug that causes the export-related progress bar to not show up right away.

Added the ability in Lr5 to export images even if the master image file is not available, so long as there's a smart preview available.

Can now have Publish collections renamed to match album names changed at Zenfolio.

Sigh, Twitter yet again made an unannounced undocumented change to their API that immediately breaks apps that have worked for years, and doesn't even bother alerting developers after the fact. Lord knows how many developers wasted how many hours trying to debug something that should have been announced on the developer's blog. Days later, it's still not announced there. Twitter is not worse than Facebook, but seems to be trying.

Export could crash if a too-big-for-the-remote-service video upload was attempted.

Fixed a possible plugin crash in Lr2 that might happen if the remote site's servers are failing.

Added support for some new template tokens: FlagStatus (requires Lr4.1 or later), and for Lr3 and later, a bunch of IPTC extended metadata: AdditionalModelInfo, CodeOfOrgShown, DigImageGUID, Event, ImageSupplierImageId, MinorModelAge, ModelAge, ModelReleaseID, ModelReleaseStatus, NameOfOrgShown, PersonShown, PlusVersion, PropertyReleaseID, PropertyReleaseStatus, and SourceType.

Update to reflect Zenfolio's video-length limit of 20 minutes (it had been 15).

Abort on an attempt to create a gallery with a name more than Zenfolio's limit of 200 characters long.

Added the ability to use "automatic destinations" (the naming of target galleries based upon image metadata) in Publish. It's been in Export for years (as illustrated in this 2008 article on backing up to Zenfolio), and you must create the destination presets from Export, but you can now access them in Publish.

A lot of work on the upload datapath, making it more efficient and restoring the ability to retry the attempt on certain errors.

Added the ability to set the caption on a one-off basis by just typing it in, avoiding the need to make a preset each time.

Enhance the {EMPTY} template token so that it interrupts the squelching of superfluous joining characters.

Workaround for an "attempt to call field 'getProgressScope'" bug introduced in Lr4.2.

Disallow DPX-format video export, since that totally breaks things.

Added the ability to create new galleries directly from the Publish Service context menu.

Disable the "Also automatically add as collection" checkbox in the Publish-Dialog "Zenfolio Tools" section, when the type of thing being created is a group instead of a gallery. You can't publish to groups.

Updates to the environment in the {LUA} token (in the template tokens in my plugins) to include photoTime() and currentTime(), and other changes to match the updated docs at that link.

Responding to further Zenfolio error-message changes.

Fixed a resend-keyword bug.

Zenfolio seems to be changing how they report errors, so this update tries to respond in kind, as far as I can tell.

Wow, it seems some people using Lr2 are still using very old versions of Lr2 that aren't up to snuff feature/bugfix wise. I don't want to support gratuitously old stuff, so I put a minimum of Lr2.6 to use the plugin.

Oops, a side-effect of recent changes caused the log to bloat with a binary dump of exported images. Fixed.

Twitter support now allows suppressing "Private" geoencoded locations in Lr4.1+

New upload engine in Lr4.1 that greatly increases the efficiency of large uploads. In Lr4.0 and older versions, upload handling is inefficient and large uploads can crash Lightroom, but from Lr4.1 you can easily upload up to your Zenfolio account maximum.

With Lr4.1 and later, you also get an upload percent-complete report in the task progress bar, and the ability for upload cancels to take effect immediately.

Update to handle the Mac App Store version of Lightroom.

Tweak for Lr4.1RC2.

Fixed the “photo too large to tweet” dialog message, which had been all garbled up.

Fixed a potential crash when processing some captions.

Handle a change to Zenfolio's API. According to Zenfolio, earlier versions of the plugin will cease to work on July 1, 2012.

Add the ability to reauthenticate Zenfolio credentials from within a publish service.

Enhanced the send-log dialog to hopefully make reports more meaningful to me, yielding, I hope, the ability to respond more sensibly to more reports.

Added to the template tokens supported by the plugin: {FullMasterFile}, {FullMasterFolder}, {FullExportedFile}, and {FullExportedFolder}.

Lots more preparation for Lr4 (but still works in Lr2 and Lr3).

Lightroom's internal infrastructure doesn't handle large uploads well, and will most likely crash when trying to upload huge videos, so I've not added a warning and the ability for the user to decide when it kicks in.

Files that are offline are now detected before an export/publish begins, and if there are any, offers the option to abort the export, or just skip the offline ones. This is a lot more clear than the "dng_error_file_not_found" error you get from Lightroom if you follow through with an export attempt of an offline image.

Discovered why "metadata that triggers a republish" wasn't reliable, and fixed it.

Attempt to prepare for changes Twitter has announced will take place in how they return information about server errors.

More on the march toward Lr4, including upheaval in the code to handle Lightroom APIs being discontinued in Lr4.

Bumped up the minimum Lr3 version to Lr3.5, to ensure we've got those bug fixes. Lr2 and Lr4 are still supported, of course.

Added the {AspectRatio} token to the token templates understood by the plugin, and added the Length=num filter.

Removed the “Re-mark as Published” button from the plugin-extras dialog in Lr4, because Lr4 now supports this natively.

Moved the Twitter code over to a new style of Twitter authentication, in hopes that it cures the authentication problems some people have been having.

Moved all access of Twitter to HTTPS.

Removed an obsolete reference to bit.ly from the Twitter help dialog.

Update for Lr4 beta: explain in the plugin manager that the plugin can't be registered in the beta.

The Lightroom bug referenced in the version note for 20110623.148 was fixed in Lr3.5, so I've removed the special workaround processing for that version and later.

Enabled export snapshot creation in Publish.

Zenfolio added video-upload support today, so I've updated the plugin to allow video.

Better error handling for video export, and for when images/videos exceed upload limits.

Warn about the need to update the list of albums if it's not been updated for a long time.

Updated how the Manual-association dialog is sized.

Had issues with the registration button sometimes not showing.

Added a system-clock check and reports to the user if the system clock is more than a minute out of date. An incorrect system clock can cause problems with various kinds of communication and authentication with some of my plugins, so I've just gone ahead and added this to every plugin.

When doing a plugin upgrade, offer the ability to flush all the old copies of the plugin.

Fix an "attempt to concatenate field 'user_id_string'" error that pops up at rare times.

Added some debug logging to try to track down a sizing problem with the manual-association dialog.

Include the account id (in addition to the full name that's already there) in the Publishing Manager login section, to allow multiple accounts associated with the same real name to be easily differentiated.

Also report how much storage quota is remaining, if on exists.

Reporting some errors can create a huge dialog box that can be difficult to close on OSX, so this update adds a [X] button in the upper right of the dialogs.

Gracefully report when Zenfolio replies with a "storage quota exceeded" error.

Handle errors more gracefully when attempting to update online comments for photos that no longer exist.

Better general debug logging to help track down errors when reported.

Some internal optimizations to handle large number of sets.

Gave the Twitter tweet input UI some attention.

Twitter automatically replaces URLs with their own t.co urls, and the tweet-text character-counter now takes that into account, so pasting in urls of any length now "costs" a fixed amount (currently 19 characters for an HTTP url; 20 characters for an HTTPS url). The plugin no longer uses bit.ly.

Made it so that hitting ENTER while entering a tweet does not actually launch the export. This is a maddeningly-frustrating aspect of the Lightroom plugin infrastructure, but I've worked around it in a way that seems to work.

Updates the yesterday's changes to that Lr2 works as well.

Added the ability to include a photo when issuing a tweet via Twitter.

Gracefully handle when Zenfolio rejects HTML captions with a non-validation error.

Better reporting of networking timeouts.

The 'refresh list' button was missing from the upload-destination list when it was configured to be a popup menu.

The manual-association dialog was too big for some screens... now it auto-adjusts depending on the screen size.

More on the catalog-access errors that some are getting with Lr3.

There's a bug in Lightroom that causes it to sometimes include private keywords in exported copies. The plugin now detects these situations and alerts you to them, allowing you to avoid a privacy blunder.

Better handle long album names by truncating at the beginning with '...', and having the tooltip be the full name.

Fixing some problems with Lr2 that the comment-refresh thing the other caused.

Fixed a bug that caused the export destination to not properly refresh in response to selecting a preset in the export dialog.

Added a new section to the Publish Service settings dialog, on whether to refresh remote comments (at Zenfolio back into Lightroom) automatically or only manually.

Fixed an obscure bug that caused new album creation to fail if it's your first interaction with the plugin in more than a day.

It seems Zenfolio dropped (or never had?) support for Width-related gallery sorting, so I've dropped that option.

Be more robust to errors during the gallery-creation process. Added more logging to try to debug a gallery-creation error.

Fixed some plugin-crash asserts that some new users might get.

Added "select all" button to Publish collection list.

Added the ability to select which metadata items cause a Publish republish.

Added the ability to sort the album list in the Publishing Manger

Previous build was broken under Lr2, and some Lr3 installs.

Giving a try to a manual option to associate images already at Zenfolio with catalog photos. See “Associate Images Manually“ in the Plugin-Extras dialog (“File > Plugin Extras > Zenfolio Extras”).

Added the ability to create new Zenfolio galleries from within the publish manager.

Added a progress dialog to the “Re-mark as Published” operation, so that it can be canceled, and to make it clear that something is going on under the hood.

Fixed a bug whereby one couldn't export via preset to an account different from the currently-logged in account.

The list of upload destinations was sometimes getting cut off.

Internally, upgraded to the latest Zenfolio API.

Added “Re-Mark as Published” to the Plugin-Extras dialog (“File > Plugin Extras > Zenfolio Extras”). If you have published photos in the “Modified Photos to Re-Publish” grid segment, this moves them back to “Published Photos” without actually uploading anything to Zenfolio. You might use this after making what you know to be a metadata-only change that won't affect how the image is shown at Zenfolio.

Fixed a problem such that long album names caused buttons to become inaccessible in the export dialog.

Not sure what happened to the export dialog since I last checked it in Windows, but it was in need of some UI love.

This version no longer works in Lr3.0 and Lr3.2 because many bugs have been fixed in Lr3.3: if you're using Lr3.0 or Lr3.2, please visit Lightroom's “Help > Check for Updates” to download the free update from Adobe. (The plugin also continues to work in Lr2.)

Added {CroppedWidth} and {CroppedHeight} to the template tokens used by my plugins.

Add a note of instruction to handle a (rare) situation where one needs to reauthenticate in the normal Export Dialog in order to get a Publish Service working again.

Fixed a crash sometimes encountered while updating remote-account data in the plugin, fixing correctly the fix I added incorrectly in 20101112.125.

Check whether galleries at Zenfolio have been renamed from when publish-service collections were created, and prompt the user with a note that the renaming can be incorporated into Lightroom by enabling the “Forcefully rename current collections” option.

Replaced an ugly debug message that popped up when the plugin detected that a publish-service collection's related gallery at Zenfolio has been removed from Zenfolio, with a more user-friendly message.

Publish was sometimes getting stuck in a 'not logged in' state, if you hadn't refreshed your account data in the plugin for too long a time. Not sure why I might have built it that way, but I took off the time limit so now it shouldn't get stuck anymore. Wish I understood why I'd put it in in the first place, though. )-:

Warn about the loss of metadata if the “resize to megapixels” option is used.

Fixes “Spec:343: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)” error some were getting

Added an interactive filter to the gallery list in Publish; it'll show up if there are more than 10 galleries. Only galleries whose names match all the (space-separated) terms in the filter are shown.

Added code to allow plugin revalidation after having been locked due to a bad Lightroom serial number.

Added the {KeywordsAll} template tag.

A few users found some photos to always be “stuck” as Modified photos in a Publish collection. I'm still not 100% what might be going on and can't replicate the issue myself, but this version of the plugin tries some things to hopefully alleviate the problem.

Egads, the list of albums in the Publish Service dialog was not sorted.

Did a lot of work to revamp the ability to tie in photos already at Zenfolio into your Lightroom catalog (and hence to populate a Zenfolio publish service), working around bugs in Lightroom. See the new publish docs for details.

The plugin has long remembered your export settings from Zenfolio export session to Zenfolio export session, overriding Lightroom's desire to always bring your recent export settings from non-Zenfolio exports. However, I had neglected to update the list of settings for Lightroom 3, so this is now corrected, and so the plugin now also remembers watermarking settings, file-renaming and photo-stacking, and DNG compatibility.

Clarified that the “delete all copies previously uploaded” option applies to, well, all copies previously uploaded, as opposed to some magic subset of copies previously uploaded that you might have fixed in mind.

Added a warning that blocks export when the JPEG quality is set needlessly high, referring users to my Analysis of Lightroom JPEG Export Quality Settings. You can bypass the warning if you like, and hide it forever, of course.

Discovered some rare and complex bugs related to collection renaming, and (I hope) fixed them.

Finally pushing the new version out of plugin beta (where it has been for a couple of weeks), after eight months of oft-painful development. It's extremely complex under the hood, so now that it's getting wider user and additional bugs are shaken out, there will likely be frequent updates... please keep an eye on the version history when you update.

Here are the update details from when it was in beta:

Removed some LR3-related debugging stuff that's showing up now that LR3b2 is out. All plugin-related things should work in LR3b2 except Publish, which will likely change drasticly between now and when LR3 is actually released.

New when running LR3b2 is a new “Snapshots on Export” section, which is basically a built-in version of this new plugin.

Added new tokens to the templates used in my plugins: IfKeyword and IfExportedKeyword are supported for LR2 and later. For LR3b1 and later the very powerful LUA token, and for LR3b2 and later, a bunch of new localized date/time tokens. See the templates page for details.

Wholesale changes that attempt to honor the user's locale settings for numeric display (e.g. Europeans writing 3,14156 for pi). I've probably missed some spots, so let me know if you find some.

Added three new tokens to the templates that my plugins use, CameraName, IfGeoencoded, and Keywords. See the templates page for details.

Title presets weren't getting saved across LR restarts in some cases (for definitions of “some” meaning “all”, sorry).

Changed the semantics of the Places filter (in the tokens understood by the preset templates of my plugins) in two ways: if applied to a string value rather than a number, it works on the first number found in the string. Another is that you can now use something like Places=-1 to round to the 10s, Places=-2 to round to the 100s, etc.

Completely changed how the one-click upgrade applies the newly-downloaded zip file, in the hopes that it'll work for more people. Rather than unzipping over the old copy, it now unzips to a temporary folder, then moves the old folder out of the way and the new folder into place. Prior versions' folders are now maintained (with the version number in the folder) in case you want to revert a version; you may want to clear them out from time to time. Of course, it won't take affect until you try to upgrade after having upgraded to or beyond this version.

Caught a few more LR3b issues.

Fixed the {GPSAltitude} template token so that it should now actually work.

Oops, the upload date/time custom metadata items were swapped. Doh! With this new version, each catalog will auto-update to correct the issue the first time it's loaded. The format used for the date and time are restricted in LR2 to whatever I've chosen, but the first time you load the plugin in the real LR3 (whenever it comes out), the catalog will update itself again to write the dates/times in your user-customized, localized format.

Lots of updates to the Twitter support:

• Better tweet-size estimates in line with recent processing changes at Twitter.
• Added <title> and <caption> tags to the tweet-text template (they use the title/caption from the first image exported).
• Added the ability to control whether to send a Twitter tweet with photo keywords.
• Added the ability to geotag tweets with a static location, or with the geoencoded location of the first image. A static location can be specified with a latitude, longitude pair, a geohash, or a url from a mapping service like Google, Yahoo, or Bing. On the encoded side, geodata embedded in the image can be used, or the geodata maintained by my geoencoding-support plugin).
• You can now configure the plugin to shorten URLs via your own bit.ly account, in case you want to track click-throughs yourself.
• You can now specify that you want all URLs shortened. The default remains to shorten them only when required to get under the 140-character limit. You might, for example, want to forcefully shorten them all in conjunction with your own bit.ly account, for click-through tracking.

• The plugin now goes to great lengths to report whether a tweet is accepted by Twitter. In their infinite wisdom, the folks at Twitter suddenly decided to start ignoring long tweets instead of truncating them, but (here's the brilliant part) they still report back to the plugin that the tweet was successful. Sigh.

  Furthermore, they might also ignore (yet report as successful) other kinds of tweets, such as those that are a repeat of a “too recent” tweet. Those crafty folks at Twitter implemented these changes more than three months ago, but in a truly cunning move, they still detail the old behavior in their API documentation, making no mention whatsoever about how their service now actually works.

  Only by doing a bunch of extra work can the plugin detect whether a tweet was accepted or ignored. If ignored, there's no way for the plugin to know why, so at this point it merely reports that the tweet didn't go through.

Enhanced the one-click upgrade stuff quite a bit, now detecting ahead of time when it will fail because the plugin is installed where Lightroom can't write (if Lightroom can't write to it, it can't update itself). I also added a progress bar, and now download in smaller chunks to avoid 'out of memory' errors on the larger plugins. Do remember that this new functionality becomes available after you upgrade to or past this version, when you then upgrade with it.

Fixed that during an upload of a single image, the progress-bar status didn't reflect when the image was being uploaded (it said “rendering...” the whole time).

Added a defensive error check: try to detect some of the weird error messages that the OS returns when a firewall blocks Lightroom from using the Internet. You'd be shocked to hear how much time I spend telling people “check your firewall and enable an exception for Lightroom...”. Hopefully this'll stem that stream.

Sigh, it turns out that a few days ago, Twitter suddenly changed authentication methods in a way that was guaranteed to break every strong-authentication application (such as this plugin). Sigh. This update handles the new authentication style, and includes better error reporting for the next time they pull a stunt like this.

Fixed the urls in Twitter tweets to be the public version of the url, not the private owner's version.

Added a couple of new custom metadata fields, “Zenfolio Upload Date”, and “Upload Time”. The former can be used in the Library Grid Filter to sort/select/filter by the date you uploaded to Zenfolio.

Because the new custom fields mean a change to the database, the first time you load this new version, Lightroom will pop up a dialog asking “Update catalog for plug-in?” to which you'll want to answer yes (“Update”). Then a progress bar will show up and, if you have a lot of photos in your catalog that had been uploaded to Zenfolio, will just sit there for potentially several minutes, looking stuck. Just let it work. For my catalog with 48,000 photos, it took about 5 minutes.

I'll add these to my Metadata-Viewer Preset Editor plugin soon, but for those maintaining their own viewer tagsets, these can be found at info.regex.lightroom.export.zenfolio2.uploadDate and ....uploadTime.

Well, here's something new: Twitter support. It may be a bit iffy, mostly because I don't use Twitter myself, so perhaps I've missed something about the culture in which it's used, but I've added something that allows you to send a tweet after a successful upload, with a mini template language that allows you to include a photo url or destination-set url in the tweet.

The plugin uses Twitter's new strong secure authentication, so you don't even have to tell the plugin your username or password. You authenticate at Twitter and grant the plugin application permission to send tweets on your behalf.

A note to fellow developers, who will feel my pain: in order to get this strong-secure authentication support working, I had to code up SHA-1 Secure Hash computation from scratch, in pure Lua... a horrid language, I'll remind you, that has absolutely no bitwise operations, or even integer support. No masks, no bitwise xors, no way to test bits or shift words or any of that stuff. As I coded it, I felt as if I were chiseling NAND gates from rough blocks of silicon.

I felt quite the achievement once I got it working, but only then realized that I also need to code up my own HMAC-SHA1 secure signature routine. It's less involved than the original SHA-1 stuff, but again, filled with bytewise xors. Fun stuff, in a very old-school way.

Fixed a “loadstring” error some users got.

You can now use the scroll wheel with the scrollable lists (such as for the gallery list)... sort of. It works while the mouse is actually hovering over the scroll bar. That's the best I can figure out so far... it's better than nothing if you're a scroll-wheel user.

Added some new token filters to the preset templates used for things like extra keywords and image captions: They're listed in the docs, but include new items like UCFirst capitalize first character of the item, or LC to lower-case the entire item. For example, if you want to include the city as an extra tag, but prefer your tags to be all lower case, you might use {City:LC} in the extra-tag dialog.

Added items to the title/description presets: SmugMugUrl, FlickrUrl, and PicasawebUrl. If you have previously uploaded this image to one of those sites with my plugin that uploads to those sites, you can refer to that copy of the image by reference. Using the tag alone, e.g. {FlickrUrl}, it becomes the raw url, or nothing if the image wasn't previously uploaded. Using a =text argument inside the tag turns it into a link with the given text, e.g.

    See the {FlickrUrl=photo at Flickr}.

becomes:

    See the <a href='...'>photo at Flickr</a>.

if the url is known. If the url is not known, the tag is replaced with nothingness, so you might want to include an "|..." fallback section, such as:

    See the {FlickrUrl=photo at Flickr|"photo at <a href='http://myname.flickr.com'>my Flickr site</a>"}.

The entire double-quoted part after the "|" is used when what comes before ends up being empty. In this case, that double-quoted part is some text that includes a link to a Flickr user's home page (you'd want to put yours, of course). So, if the url isn't known, the entry becomes

    See the photo at <a href='http://myname.zenfolio.com'>my Flickr site</a>.

Corrected the photo-date related items in the preset templates to properly use the dateTimeOriginal metadata field, rather than the edit-time dateTime field. It now uses the first of the following that it finds with a value: dateTimeOriginal, dateTimeDigitized, and dateTime. This bug was reported to me long ago, but I let it slip through the cracks, sorry.

Added scroll-one-line arrows to the top and bottom of the scrollbars, to allow fine-grained control of scrolling very long lists. (I've been programming for almost 30 years, but this is the first time I've ever built a graphical scrolling system from scratch, so I may be a bit slow on the uptake at times 🙂 )

Turns out that there's a bug in Lightroom that causes login names to be rejected if they can't actually fit in the input box that's presented when trying to log into a second account. To get around this bug for the few who run into it, I've made the box as wide as I can... I hope it's sufficient.

Big UI changes in some areas. I've cobbled together a way to add what appears to be a real scrollbar, so I've replaced the kludgey scrolling solution I had before. It seems to work okay.

I also changed the “Token Examples” dialog from paging to use the new scroll stuff.

It now reports a proper error if you try to upload an image with a copyright that's longer than Zenfolio's 100-character limit. I really should do this in a pre-export scan so that it's issued right away (prior to LR rendering all the images), but I doubt many will actually run into this, so I'll not bother with it for the time being.

It seems that PayPal doesn't give everyone a “Unique Transaction ID” in the registration confirmation mail; some people get a “Receipt Number”. So, the registration dialog now accepts that as well.

I also removed the “Resolution value to record in metadata” control in the Metadata Management section. That had dated back to a time when the resolution setting was not available in the standard “Image Sizing” section of the export dialog, and I forgot to remove my custom one when the standard setting appeared. It was sort of silly having two controls for the same thing, sorry.

The resolution setting is still utterly meaningless unless you use it to actually compute the pixel size of the image (that is, if you have the “resize to” setting to something other than “pixels”). Once the image has been created, it's just a hint about how you intend it to be rendered when printed, but it has exactly zero impact on the quality that can or can't be achieved when printing.

NOTE: you may need to restart Lightroom after installing to this (or a later) version from the previous (or an earlier) version. Please try a restart if you get an error the first time you try to use the plugin.

As per the ongoing discussion on my blog, with this version this plugin moves over to a “donationware” model, in which the plugin remains free, but registration eventually becomes required (and an eventual donation hoped for 🙂 ).

For details, see Lightroom Plugin Development: Now With Added Encouragement. (For info about what drove this decision, see What To Do When a Hobby Becomes Work?)

The plugin no longer expires, and correspondingly, I will not pay much attention to reports of bugs that have already been fixed, so please check your version and the version history before submitting bugs or feature requests.

There was a lot of internal upheaval in the code, so I expect that some boo-boos my surface. If something breaks for you with this version, please let me know, but until I fix it, feel free to revert to the previous version.

Several fixes and enhancements in this release: It can now track multiple Zenfolio logins, and you can easily switch between and among them. There have been a lot of UI tweaks to make things look more natural (but Lightroom's plugin infrastructure still places great restrictions on what can be done, so it's not like it's smoothly polished yet). It now has more robust error reporting in the face of network problems. Also, caption handling has been fixed... it use to break when there were ampersands in the caption.

Okay, so I spent the entire weekend working on my own scrollable-list control from scratch, because the built-in popup menu is just not very easy to work with when one has a lot of galleries. I didn't have much to work with, and the result is a bit wonky, but it's much more usable when the list is long, so I'm throwing it out there. If you don't have a long list of export destinations, you can revert back to the original via the “configure list appearance” button. With that button you can also change how much of the list is shown at once, to suit your personal preference.

I created a “Metadata Management” section in the dialog, and moved some things into that from other sections.

Fixed a race condition that sometimes caused the export destination to not appear in the synopsis of a closed “Upload Destination” dialog section.

Also fixed an issue whereby doing a “replace” would abort when the image previously uploaded to Zenfolio was no longer present at Zenfolio. Now, if the image isn't there anymore, the “replace” turns into a simple upload. (A “replace” goes to whatever the gallery the original was in; but a replace that turns into an upload goes to the export's destination gallery.)

Moved the items in the “Upload Management” section into the “Upload Destination” section, since they are really quite related.