Searchable Images in our Sphinx folders! Yay!

[Mr. Pooka]

Our Sphinxes folders are now searchable. This works much much better than our previous website. It's super easy and convenient and I've been so excited working on this project, (-8

How does it work

Simply open up smugmug to our owners folder, like this,

sphinxes.smugmug.com/Owner-Folders

and you'll see a search button on top right. Search for anything including as many search words as you wish. You can search for dancers, you can search for dancers with silkyears, you can search for dancers with silkyears and cateyes, ect.

Now for tagging purposes I have added most traits and classes as one word with no spaces. For example if you wanted to find 'feather wings' use 'featherwings' for your search.

Bloodlines and Subspecies are usually only listed by type and base traits are not noted. For Example, a Djet will be listed simply as Djet, I did not add assumed traits like djetface and djetbody. I did add additional or different traits like featherwings or quetzalcrests. Same for Crios, Hierocos, Mer and others.

Can't remember who your husband is? Search away! (and don't consider that you might be experiencing marriage issues!)

Now, I did personally enter information for over 5000 Sphinxes so there might be some typos, (-8 One big mistake I made was typing in Dragonwings for Batwings, but by the time I realized I didn't want to go back an fix it, (-8 so I'll add a note in our traits section! I'll prob put up a thread for corrections in the near future. Atm I'm just excited to be done and don't want to see how many mistakes I made, lol.

...also typing out silkyforelegfeathering and pupillesseyes so many times, yikes, (-8 also I realized I can type catface with only my left hand, lol. Super useful information!



Also individual folders are also searchable. Can't find one of your own Sphinxes or are just curious about how many assassins you own, easy peasy.

I have only added Sphinx names to users who are currently active (like owning something from the last Heb) I might keep adding more names as a get time but it's not a priority. If I missed you or an individual name, it's nothing personal of course, just a massive amount of data entry, usually at odd hours or when insomnia hit, (-8 You can note me in the corrections thread I mentioned above.


There is also now an option that makes a file names automatically a search keyword. So, when we are busy, like during an event, I might not have time to add extra information like traits but as soon as I drop it in your folder you can still search for its codeword, as we name each file (ex. EM999).


We might have extra options available in the future for adding codewords for some Sphinxes or group Sphinxes. For example I've tagged all Golden Paw (GP) and Hand of Darkness (HoD) thieves as well as a roleplaying group of Pooka and mine called the Yamasugi Outlaws (YSO) as a test. We might expand this option if it seems cool and fun and remains an appropriate amount of work, (-8

I've got a couple of other ideas for the future as well, like tagging everything when I revamp the items area. (perhaps with who can use certain things? like maybe search 'hat' and 'Greek' and 'Female' to see what's available? I'm not 100% on the hows yet, but I like the concept.)

So, this was several weeks of work but I'm so happy we have this option now! (-8

[Operetta]

This is such amazing news and will make life easier for all. I definitely like the idea of searching the accessories and items, too!

[Siopilos]

*immediately goes to type catface with left hand in folders*

This. Is. Amazing! So awesome, Mr. Pooka! Thank you for doing this it's such a time saver and a fun way to explore every Sphinx out there! Ahhhh!

[Mr. Pooka]

I have to put a little brainpower into how I'd tag the items or samples and such, but it shouldn't be nearly the job of tagging all the Sphinxes. The whole item section is next on my 'technical stuff to fix' list for redordering and sorting, sort of like how I redid all the wigs and jobs areas... just to make things easy to find and understand. (it's funny when I stumble on stuff that Pooka and I don't even remember what they are!)

I was weirdly entertained by the catface note, (-8 and I hope you have fun with searching! Besides the practical stuff (like finding a combos of traits and costumes for a custom, or a missing number) there's lots of neat stuff that just pops up that have been hidden in dusty folders and need to be seen! I also hid a few Easter eggs in there when the mood struck as well, (-8

...oh yes, and after finding some of the hidden pretties in there I've been thinking about doing some sort of 'Sphinx of the Week' type thing to show off some of my, and the communities, favorites. Maybe here or on another site? idk yet, but I like the idea, (-8

[kaats711]

Yay! This is amazing! Thank you Mr. Pooka!

[Nightfeathers]

Realize I am very late to the party (though I found it in less than a year so go me XD) But this is a really amazing feature! I think you did a wonderful job and it seems really handy!