True User Galleries?

Exacto · December 23rd, 2005, 10:57 AM

Does PhotoPost vBGallery support user galleries? I have been playing with catagories and all of that but what I want to do is to have users create their own gallery with sub-cats. So far it's been a little confusing. This is what I mean.

-Members Galleries-

So and so's Gallery
Such and such Cat
Pics
Such and such cat
Pics

I see that when they upload to a catagory then their "gallery" is created by their name but just allows a bunch of pictures with no organization of photos or am I just not doing it right

Chuck S · December 23rd, 2005, 11:07 AM

Hello I beleive what your looking for is albums and no vbGallery does not have personal albums feature. it has a member's gallery where it can group members pics just like PhotoPost but lacks the true albums feature that our PhotoPost Pro package has.

Exacto · December 23rd, 2005, 12:22 PM

Thats what I was affraid of

Thanks

Zachariah · December 23rd, 2005, 01:55 PM

Admin CP options:

Category Options - per Cat created.

Act as Members' Category- [ ] yes [ ] no
When set to 'Yes', any uploads to this category will automatically be placed in a sub-category named after the user who uploaded the file.

Allow Users to Create Sub-Categories - [ ] yes [ ] no

I have not tested all the options.

Chuck S · December 23rd, 2005, 02:00 PM

He is talking about true galleries which is USER ALBUMS which only photopost has.

EDIT

Yeah a user can create albums under the members gallery from what your saying. However they can not assign them to anything other than a category that acts as a members gallery from what I see

Exacto · December 23rd, 2005, 03:16 PM

Yeah thats the issue I was having, anyway I can get credit for my Photopost vBG towards PhotoPost Pro

ConqSoft · December 23rd, 2005, 04:34 PM

Yes, vBGallery supports this. If you enable the two options listed above, any sub-cats (albums) that users create under their member gallery will show up under their username.

I have many levels deep under mine:
http://www.fireblades.org/gallery/br...c=500&userid=1

Exacto · December 23rd, 2005, 06:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ConqSoft

Yes, vBGallery supports this. If you enable the two options listed above, any sub-cats (albums) that users create under their member gallery will show up under their username.

I have many levels deep under mine:
http://www.fireblades.org/gallery/br...c=500&userid=1

I want the parent cat to be the user's name. I could do it all via AdminCP for every user but that would be a Admin nightmare!

ConqSoft · December 23rd, 2005, 08:13 PM

The parent cat IS the User's name.

http://www.fireblades.org/gallery/br...hp?ltr=C&c=500

Click my name there.

Exacto · December 23rd, 2005, 08:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ConqSoft

The parent cat IS the User's name.

http://www.fireblades.org/gallery/br...hp?ltr=C&c=500

Click my name there.

Did you have to set it up like that in Admincp?

ConqSoft · December 23rd, 2005, 08:45 PM

All you do is set two options listed above to YES.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zachariah

Admin CP options:

Category Options - per Cat created.

Act as Members' Category- [ ] yes [ ] no
When set to 'Yes', any uploads to this category will automatically be placed in a sub-category named after the user who uploaded the file.

Allow Users to Create Sub-Categories - [ ] yes [ ] no

I have not tested all the options.

Then check the usergroup permissions to make sure you allow them to create categories.

When they create a category, they'll choose the Members Gallery as the parent, and the new sub-cat they create will show up under their member gallery, under their name.

Exacto · December 23rd, 2005, 10:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ConqSoft

When they create a category, they'll choose the Members Gallery as the parent, and the new sub-cat they create will show up under their member gallery, under their name.

Wow I think I have it sorted out now

It was just a kinda strange way to do it I thought.

Thanks for the help

ConqSoft · December 29th, 2005, 12:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chuck S

EDIT

Yeah a user can create albums under the members gallery from what your saying. However they can not assign them to anything other than a category that acts as a members gallery from what I see

Actually, if they have permission, they can create a category, and assign it to any category that the Admin sets "Allow Users to Create Sub-Categories" to Yes.

Snitz · December 29th, 2005, 12:58 PM

can users have a personal gallery where they can upload their pics (without creating categories and subcats...)
just upload pics and they can select weither to let users view their personal gallery or not

ConqSoft · December 29th, 2005, 01:03 PM

If they upload directly to a category that is set as a Members Gallery, it will show their images in a category called their username. No category creation is needed. However, those can't be limited from view.

If they create a category, they can choose if that category is private or not.

dcpaq2 · January 18th, 2006, 01:42 AM

I want to allow my members to upload their files to a specific cat or folder, but I dont want them having their own personal folder or album.

Is it possible to do this? If so could someone explain to me how to go about doing this?

Thanks

Doug