Improve selectable Album thumbnail

[FelixUster]

Hey,

thank you very much for this project. It is basically what I am looking for.
It would be great, if it would be possible to select the album thumbnail, instead of using the earliest Picture in a folder.
of course, I am willing to help, maybe you can hint me to the respective file, as I have never used JS or Go.

[viktorstrate]

Hi @FelixUster

I think this is would be a nice feature.
It could be implemented in a similar way as how Google Photos does it. Clicking a button labeled "Use as album cover".

If you have very little experience with Javascript and Go, then I think it would be quite ambitious to implement this.
But if you want to give it a shot nevertheless, here are the basic steps:

• Add a database migration where a new column is added for a potential cover image, referencing the media_id of the selected cover image.
• Add and implement a graphql mutation to change the cover of an album.
• Update the album thumbnail resolver to use the selected album cover if set, otherwise use the current implementation to dynamically select the first one.
• Integrate the graphql mutation into the web interface.

[viktorstrate]

Implemented in #526

[jiangzhenjerry]

Hi! Sorry for bumping a closed ticket. I do enjoy the "Set as album cover photo" function, so thanks for implementing it. On the other hand, maybe one day this feature could be extended a bit? For example, for the following folder structure:

Folder A
├── Folder B
│   ├── 1.jpg
│   └── 2.jpg
└── Folder C
    ├── 3.jpg
    └── 4.jpg

We can now easily change the cover photos of Folder B and Folder C, but not that of Folder A because Folder A doesn't have any photos directly under it.

Furthermore, if I change the cover photo of Folder B to 2.jpg (from 1.jpg by default), Folder A would still use 1.jpg (first photo in the first subfolder) as the cover photo. It would be nice if Folder A at least follows my choice of cover photo for Folder B.

[EgonHeuson]

This would be an amazing feature!! ❤️ But Photoview is already a very nice job! Thanks!!

[hcooper]

+1 controlling the album cover of a parent album would be great.

[Lingxi-Li]

+1 for the feature to set cover page of albums that contain no photo but only sub-albums.