Can I require a category to be chosen?

DannyITR · February 2nd, 2006, 05:48 PM

I have a car website and people will be uploading their car photos. I need to require them to choose a category (or make of car), otherwise its very easy to accidentally put the photos be put into the member albums section with no category at all.

Chuck S · February 3rd, 2006, 06:38 AM

Well you can turn off the members gallery so they can only choose a category

DannyITR · February 6th, 2006, 12:30 PM

Hi Chuck,

I searched and found an option not to allow members to create personal albums and another one to remove the link from the index page but when I upload a photo I can still choose to put it in the members section. Can you tell me where to find the option you mentioned?

I would love to still be able to view the memberlist if possible just not let people upload photos that aren't in a category.

Chuck S · February 6th, 2006, 02:22 PM

In index options you can turn off showing the members gallery in admin plus admin => edit categories you can remove upload access to members gallery.

Peter · February 17th, 2006, 04:37 PM

Hi, I am having the same problem and can't get rid off the member galleries showing in the dropdown menu when going into upload picture.
Actually it autoselects member galery from the dropdown when clicking upload pic.

Any idea ?

Thanks.

DannyITR · February 23rd, 2006, 11:00 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chuck S

In index options you can turn off showing the members gallery in admin plus admin => edit categories you can remove upload access to members gallery.

This worked perfectly.

Peter..It still shows up for me too because I'm an admin but if you log in as joe-blow user you should see that they can only select categories.

Make sure to edit the usergroups to not allow them to have personal albums and also the categories at the bottom to uncheck the usergroups who can upload to them.

DannyITR · February 23rd, 2006, 11:01 AM

Chuck I have another question if you don't mind..

I added two custom fields as dropdown boxes (year and make of car). I need to require that a value be selected in here as well. Do you know how to do this?

Chuck S · February 23rd, 2006, 11:36 AM

Feel free to post in our mods forum on any questions regarding modifications.