Hi all,

I am just migrating from gallery 3 and as such I am having some questions concerning how Zenphoto is working. Unfortunately I can't tell from the user guide section.

So here is what I want to do:
I want to create a website gallery. check
I want to create different albums with sub albums and so ok. check
I want some albums to be public and some to require a user login. (not just a password!)

So I installed the user_groups and user_login-out plugins.

I created a new user group with access to all images and their original size.

However I fail to find an option to set correct access rights to each album.

eg.

I have 3 albums:

Album 01 is public: it should be accessible by everyone. Including the original sized images.

Album 02 is public, but the original sized images should be restricted to user group "press".

Album 03 is protected: it is not displayed on the index page as long as you haven't logged in with a valid user that has access rights to this album.

Is this configuration possible with zenphoto?
And if yes, what's the best way to achieve this!?

thanks a lot in advance.

Sven

You will have to password protect any album you want not to be public.

You will need to password protect the "full image" view.

Album 3 should be un-published so it will not show on the index page except to appropriate users.

The user group "press" should have "view full image" rights.

Album 3 must be in the managed albums list for any user (group) you wish to be able to see the album.

Please also reviev http://www.zenphoto.org/news/an-overview-of-zenphoto-users

To answer one question that will come next for sure directly: You can only assign user rights to top level albums. This is a "drawback" and on purpose and the reason is that Zenphoto's albums are primarily filesystem based. We rejected rights to subalbums because this would cause severe overhead and therefore performance issues.