Adding galleries

This guide explains the various methods of adding galleries to your library.

For this guide we'll start by constructing an imaginary folder structure with doujins & manga:

• C:/
  • /Doujin
    • ... (50 archives)
  • /Manga
    • ... (50 archives)
  • /Organized stuff
    • Title 1
      • Chapter 1
      • Chapter 2
      • Chapter 3
      • ...
    • Title 2
    • Title 3
    • ...

Okay now that we have defined our stuff, we'd want to import them.

For this, Happypanda currently provides 3 methods of importing. All three methods can be set to treat the gallery sources differently with this option

Subdirectories should be treated as standalone galleries instead of chapters

found in

Settings -> Application -> Gallery

Add single gallery

This method is straightforward.

A dialog opens up and you get to choose one archive or folder to import. Afterwards you can fill out gallery details and even fetch metadata before importing.

An example:

I want to import a single gallery from the Manga folder. I need to uncheck Subdirectories should be treated as standalone galleries instead of chapters in settings since the galleries are contained in one single archive with images.

However, if I want to import a gallery from Organized stuff, the option need to be checked because the galleries has been neatly organized in chapters with a top folder named after the title of the gallery.

Add galleries...

This method allows you to import galleries from different places.

With this method you lose the ability to fill out details or fetch metadata before importing.

An example:

I want to import multiple specific galleries from all three folders (Doujin, Manga and Organized stuff)

First, because the galleries in Organized stuff is organized the way it is, I need to check the option in settings Subdirectories should be treated as standalone galleries instead of chapters. Happypanda will automatically treat the archives in Manga and Doujin as standalone galleries as long as they don't contain any folders within them.

So I keep adding specific galleries from the three folders and then confirm by unchecking the ones I don't want imported and then hit the Add checked button.

Another example:

I want to import all galleries in Doujin and Manga.

To do this, though not required, I uncheck the option Subdirectories should be treated as standalone galleries instead of chapters in settings since galleries aren't divided in subfolders. Then I just add the two folders to the list and hit the Add checked button. Easy!

Populate from directory/archive

So, let's say that I'm lazy and just want galleries from all three folders imported ASAP.

This method let's you do that.

It imports all galleries found in the specified folder/archive in one fell swoop (kind of like the second example in the previous method).

An example:

A way to import all galleries, and even taking account of how the galleries in Organized stuff are organized.

So, because the galleries are organized differently in Organized stuff, we need to move the archives in the two other folders to this folder so it looks like this:

• C:/
  • /Organized stuff
    • Title 1 (folder)
      • Chapter 1
      • Chapter 2
      • Chapter 3
      • ...
    • Title 2 (folder)
    • Title 3 (folder)
    • ... (100 archives)

Then we check the option Subdirectories should be treated as standalone galleries instead of chapters in settings. Now we just choose the folder Organized stuff in the popup and Happypanda will import all galleries successfully.