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Different rights for different albums

huogas Member
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I gave admin rights on two albums to a specific user.

Now I want that specific user to have just read rights on a third album.

Hoping that I didn't overlooked something, how can I do that ?

Thanks

Gaston

Comments

  • acrylian Administrator, Developer
    You can change that on the same place where you assigned the other two albums... the users tab.
  • huogas Member
    ...that I knew.

    From what I understand, I can define a set of rights, and I can assigned this set of rules to specific albums.

    I think my question is: how can I define different sets of rights assigned to different albums for a user ?

    Let's say:
    -Albums: A1, A2 and A3
    -Users: U1 and U2

    U1 can see and full edit A1 and A2
    U1 can see A3 but not edit it
    U2 cannot see A2 and A3 but has to see A1

    Thanks,

    Gaston
  • acrylian Administrator, Developer
    Well, two options in general:
    1. You assign rights to each user account individually
    2. You use the user_groups plugin to assign rights to groups and users to these groups

    There is also a article on user rights on the user guide seciton you might want to read.
  • huogas Member
    For the purpose of keeping the problem simple, let's go with option #1 (more work, but the most flexible one, I think)

    1. You assign rights to each user account individually

    How would I do what is described in my example?

    Thanks,

    Gaston
  • acrylian Administrator, Developer
    If you visit the user tab and look at an user account you should actually see it yourself.
  • sbillard Member
    Sorry, but the edit rights will apply to all albums that the user has in his managed albums list. So there is no way to have a private album that is just viewable by users who have any album edit rights. Possibly this is somethig that we could do in the future. I do not think it is a simple change, though.
  • huogas Member
    That was my point.

    I'm surprised that this was never brought as an issue ?

    Thanks,

    Gaston
  • acrylian Administrator, Developer
    Well, seems no one ever needed this so far.
  • harmless Member
    Well, I'm surprised too. Reading the user rights guide is why I chose to install this in the first place but I'm very disappointed in how the system actually works.

    The intent was for a few friends and family to use this to host their photos and be able to have some albums public and some restricted to a subset of users as chosen by the user with some kind of guest password / authenticated linking ability as well.

    But for any user with a managed album to be allowed to view another user's album the only way seems to be to have them managing it also.

    How about a more streamlined permissions system where users can be in multiple groups and each album has a list of groups that can view and a list of groups that can manage?
  • sbillard Member
    I am sorry you are disappointed. You must have a very miserable life if you find that things which never promised to meet your expectations do not do so. Please be happy with whatever photo gallery you choose. Zenphoto is obviously not for you.
  • harmless Member
    Nah, my life is just fine, thanks. Also, wow, nice defensiveness, keep it classy :)

    Here's this thread of some guy being repeatedly told your script does what he wants (and it's not immediately clear from the docs or interface that it doesn't) and then ultimately being dismissed as "seems no one ever needed this so far". Just helping let you know it's probably a more common use case than you think.
  • acrylian Administrator, Developer
    Don't take it too personally... You are a new user and my collegue is a little (over)allergic sometimes if "first posters" just start with "it is not what I need, why. Do it for me at once" sounding posts (exaggerated of course).

    then ultimately being dismissed as "seems no one ever needed this so far".
    Well, it is this way for the last three years I am on this project. We are a community project and we don't just add features at random for fun. Our time is limited. And just one request does not always justify that we work on it. You know, we are a small team and working on Zenphoto voluntary in our spare time. We surely can't do everything for everyone right and there is always room for improvements.

    Feel free to submit a feature suggestion ticket but we can't guarantee anything for the given reasons. You may even visit our "get involved" page.
  • huogas Member
    "Well, seems no one ever needed this so far."

    I think I found out why this flexibility into the security is not that much requested, because I believe that the need is there.

    When face to this problem, someone probably creates another account with specific admin rights on a specific album ?

    Gaston
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