Users and groups. How get this? Is it possible?

narcotico

Hello.

I am a newbie with Zenphoto, I am testing some image cms to choose one.

I've read the section/manual about permissions, users and groups but I am not sure how get this or if it is possible.

The situation is the next:
- A private site for personal use and share with family and friends.
- An album + subalbums for each group. For example, an Album "Family" where only users belong to Family can watch it (Read Only).
- And 1 of the next options:
1) They can upload, create albums, ... (write) but with the approval by admin.
2) Create a subalbum in their group, for instance "Family/Upload" where they can create/edit,... (only in upload subalbum).

Could I do this with zenphoto with some plugin?

Thank you.

fretzl

• Set gallery to "private"
  (Admin -> Options -> Gallery -> Gallery type)
• Activate the `user_groups` plugin
• Create albums for each family but do not publish them (something like family1, family2, etc)
• Just to be safe go to Options -> Gallery -> Gallery behavior
  and un-check "Publish albums by default"
• Create user groups for each family album and set the proper rights:
  • Albums -> check "Upload"
  • Gallery -> check "View gallery"
  • Managed albums -> check the specific album
    (this album will be different for each family-group)
• Create users and assign them to the group they belong to
  

If a user now visits the gallery he will be presented with a logon form.
Supplying the correct username and password he'll be able to see only the family-album he is assigned to.
He'll also see an admin button on the upper-right corner which brings him to the backend admin area where he'll be able to upload images to the designated family-album and/or subalbums. He'll also be able to create sub-albums.

Note that it is not possible for you to approve first!
Uploads and creation of sub-albums will be instant.