This is a bit of Coppermine
idiocy strangeness...
Keywords is mis-named. It allows you to place an image in other secondary albums. Each album has its own "keyword", and your image will appear in any album for which it has the matching "keyword". Each of the main albums has a note of its "keyword" in its description.
To make this clearer, the O.A.S gallery has had "keyword" changed to "link-word".
The main "link-words" which work are:
- Asteroid
- Aurora
- Camp
- Comet
- Data
- Eclipse
- Event
- Galaxy
- Jupiter
- Mars
- Mercury
- Messier
- Meteor
- Misc
- Moon
- Nebula
- Neptune
- Obs
- Outing
- Process
- Satellite
- Saturn
- Scope
- Star
- Sun
- Venus
Each user also has a private album with a "link-word" usually matching the username.
The gallery's search can look at any of the fields in the description. If you think an image needs keywords (in the more normal sense of "a word useful for identifying...") then use them in the title or somewhere in the description, and a search will find them.
Please note you do not need to put terms into the "link-words" section to make the term searchable because the gallery search looks at titles and descriptions. You only really need to use "link-words" if you want an image to show up in more than one album. (Yes, I know I've said that twice in different ways...)By the way, it's worth remembering that the visibility of linked files (ones that have an album's "link-word" in their "link-words" section) is controlled by the settings of the album they're in. If you use a "link-word" to link an image from your
Previews and Works-in-Progress to a public album then you will be the only person able to see it in the public album.
