Thanks for the info! No, I don't necessarily have a need to edit or update the fields, but I did I notice that when you look at your albums using PWA, the albums from instant upload (with the "buzz" album type) are automatically grouped/hidden. However, these albums are included when you fetch a list of a user's albums.
It looks like the album type information can be used to filter the album feed when displaying it so that the instant upload albums are hidden. The only tangential use case for a feature like "album types" would be to organize albums. I can imagine some kind of functionality that would let you tag albums with keywords — just like you can do with photos — so you can organize them. I'm thinking of keywords like "vacation," "sports," "friends" that could create groups of albums related to certain topics. I imagine that most people don't need those kind of tools, but I would find it useful to keep my growing number of albums organized. Charlie On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 1:37 PM, Mike Erickson <[email protected]>wrote: > Hello Charlie, > > Yes, you are correct that these are some tags used to identify special > album types for PicasaWeb and a few other clients who care. This field is > not editable, and you cannot create your own values. We have no plans to > implement the ability to update or modify these values, either. > > I hope this isn't too disappointing. Did you have plans to use them? > > Thank you. > -Mike > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google Picasa Web Albums API" group. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-picasa-data-api/-/71cVB2sneZ4J. > > To post to this group, send email to > [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-picasa-data-api?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Picasa Web Albums API" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-picasa-data-api?hl=en.
