Adding captions to WHIIST

Posted on March 26, 2008 by Chad

I’ve seem a number of posts from Windows Home Server users asking to add captions to WHIIST. I’ve created a minor hack to enable captions to web pages hosted using WHIIST. This change involves replacing one of the ASP.NET script files found in the directory that photos are added.

Here are the steps to enable captions in WHIIST:

  1. Download the new album script here. Unzip the album.ashx file to a known location.
  2. For each of your photo shares you would like to enable captions:
    1. Navigate to the public folder containing the photo share.
    2. Copy the new album.ashx file over the existing album.ashx file already in this location.
    3. If you view your website now, you will see the caption for each photo is the file name of the photo. This is the default caption.
    4. To add custom title and caption edit the metadata for each photo.
    5. To edit the metadata, follow these steps:
      1. Right click on the picture file to add a caption in windows explorer.
      2. Select “Properties”.
      3. Select the “Summary” tab.
      4. In the “Title:” field, enter the title you would like displayed for the photo.
      5. In the “Comments:” field, enter any additional comments you would like displayed.

Please comment and let me know how this works for you. To revert, just copy back the older album.ashx. I would obviously try this on a test album first to make sure it is what you are looking for.

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6 Responses to “Adding captions to WHIIST”

  1. EBD, on April 13th, 2008 at 6:43 pm Said:

    Hi followed the directions but got a runtime error after i added the comments…could not load the page after that…so had to revert back to older copy…sure would like to make this work any ideas?…
    thanks

  2. Chad, on April 14th, 2008 at 2:46 am Said:

    Haven’t seen that before, can you post the error? I’ll check it out. Thanks.

  3. Martyn, on May 12th, 2008 at 9:37 am Said:

    Hi,

    Can you provide a new link to the album script, the old one seems to be broken.

    Martyn

  4. Chad, on May 12th, 2008 at 4:53 pm Said:

    I moved it over to mediafire.com and updated the link. http://www.mediafire.com/?1oy5z5d2m19
    Thanks Martyn for pointing that out.

  5. Jim, on June 13th, 2008 at 11:51 am Said:

    I downloaded the album.ashx file. Uploaded it to my folder within the public folder and replaced the existing file and it does not work for me. I still do not see any captions. Also, when I right click on the photos do not see any summary tab. I’m doing this remotely. Do I need to be at the server in order to add the captions via the Properties of the photo file.

    Thanks

  6. Jim, on June 13th, 2008 at 12:13 pm Said:

    I figure out what I was doing wrong. I was not looking at the photo. The caption show up there, not under the thumb nail.

    It is working and I think you for taking the time to tell us and show us how to do this.

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