I just realized something!

[conuly]

One of my friends complained about how if she wanted to change all incidents of a certain user picture with another user picture, she had to give the new user picture the same keywords, even if they were unrelated.

This is not true.

User pictures can have more than one keyword, so long as keywords are separated by commas. So you can have user pictures numbered 1-whatever with an additional keyword (separated by a comma from the number!) describing the picture itself.

I'm not sure how this'd work for replacement uses, though. So she's probably right after all. But I'm just happy, I learned something new!

Comments

[push-the-limits.livejournal.com]

Do you have I1 privs in UPI yet? You should try what you described, and see if it works. :)

So what you're saying, is you can have

1,firstuserpic
2,seconduserpic
3,thirduserpic

...and if you replace 1 with another picture, you can call it 1,replacementuserpic and you MIGHT be able to replace each of the old ones with the new?

I've never thought of that, because my userpics are so random. TOTALLY random. Sometimes I choose one that goes with the nature of my posts, but hardly ever do I do that, and I really wouldn't care if it was replaced.

Huh. That's just something I never really considered.

[conuly]

Well, I just did that with my cool icon, so I know it works for replacement purposes. What I don't know is if it matters which keyword you used when you chose to use that icon. For example, if you use keyword "mine" to use the # 1 icon in comments, and you replace it with "gold", does it change even though you didn't use the icon by choosing "1" from the drop down?

[mortaine.livejournal.com]

Three userpics with keywords:

1,firstuserpic
2,seconduserpic
3,thirduserpic

You replace the first user picture with a new graphic and give it the keywords "1,newuserpic"

Every entry and comment where you selected "1" as the keyword will be replaced. Every entry and comment where you selected "firstuserpic" as the keyword will be replaced with your default userpic until you upload a userpic and give it the name "firstuserpic."

This is why I try to name my userpics by topic/mood/message, rather than content. I've already replaced my Holidays userpic a couple of times, depending on what I want to use for that particular season.

[deceptica]

I think I was the one who complained about that problem...

Every entry and comment where you selected "1" as the keyword will be replaced. Every entry and comment where you selected "firstuserpic" as the keyword will be replaced with your default userpic until you upload a userpic and give it the name "firstuserpic."

Drat, and here I thought she had found the perfect solution. Oh well...

[eofs.livejournal.com]

You couldn't change past entries, but you could do it from now on. Of course, you'd have to memorise which pic was which number...

[conuly]

Yeah, I suspected it wouldn't really work.

Still, it would've been nice.

[push-the-limits.livejournal.com]

Do you have I1 privs in UPI yet? You should try what you described, and see if it works. :)

So what you're saying, is you can have

1,firstuserpic
2,seconduserpic
3,thirduserpic

...and if you replace 1 with another picture, you can call it 1,replacementuserpic and you MIGHT be able to replace each of the old ones with the new?

I've never thought of that, because my userpics are so random. TOTALLY random. Sometimes I choose one that goes with the nature of my posts, but hardly ever do I do that, and I really wouldn't care if it was replaced.

Huh. That's just something I never really considered.

[conuly]

Well, I just did that with my cool icon, so I know it works for replacement purposes. What I don't know is if it matters which keyword you used when you chose to use that icon. For example, if you use keyword "mine" to use the # 1 icon in comments, and you replace it with "gold", does it change even though you didn't use the icon by choosing "1" from the drop down?

[mortaine.livejournal.com]

Three userpics with keywords:

1,firstuserpic
2,seconduserpic
3,thirduserpic

You replace the first user picture with a new graphic and give it the keywords "1,newuserpic"

Every entry and comment where you selected "1" as the keyword will be replaced. Every entry and comment where you selected "firstuserpic" as the keyword will be replaced with your default userpic until you upload a userpic and give it the name "firstuserpic."

This is why I try to name my userpics by topic/mood/message, rather than content. I've already replaced my Holidays userpic a couple of times, depending on what I want to use for that particular season.

[deceptica]

I think I was the one who complained about that problem...

Every entry and comment where you selected "1" as the keyword will be replaced. Every entry and comment where you selected "firstuserpic" as the keyword will be replaced with your default userpic until you upload a userpic and give it the name "firstuserpic."

Drat, and here I thought she had found the perfect solution. Oh well...

[eofs.livejournal.com]

You couldn't change past entries, but you could do it from now on. Of course, you'd have to memorise which pic was which number...

[conuly]

Yeah, I suspected it wouldn't really work.

Still, it would've been nice.