About to give up! Just not getting Private!

Abouna

OK, so I'm a new user. I've tried to get my head around the whole Categories & Galleries thing. I'm stalled.

I started by creating several galleries with appropriate categories like travel, kids, holiday etc. My problem is that I want all these to be private (they are all family related). I don't want to lock the whole site as I'll be adding public galleries eventually.

So to start I made each gallery password protected. As you know this makes for a very messy homepage. I then decided to move all my galleries into ONE category (I named it Private) in the hopes that I could password protect the category and then leave the galleries within it without passwords (which would be best, I want family members to enter a password once and then see image icons for each gallery within the category, not the locked symbol). That doesn't work because you can't password protect a category.

I figure there's a simple way to arrange all this and I'm just too dumb to figure it out.

Some help please.

http://abouna.smugmug.com/

denisegoldberg

If you assign the same password to all of the galleries in your "private" category, your viewers will only need to supply the password once. And yes, you do need to assign the password at a gallery level.

See http://www.smugmug.com/help/private-albums; once there, click on Give me more info on unlisted and password-protected galleries.

You can set a feature photo for your password-protected galleries. If you do that, a photo will show instead of just the lock icon. See http://www.smugmug.com/help/photo-website.

--- Denise

Abouna

denisegoldberg wrote:

If you assign the same password to all of the galleries in your "private" category, your viewers will only need to supply the password once. And yes, you do need to assign the password at a gallery level.

See http://www.smugmug.com/help/private-albums; once there, click on Give me more info on unlisted and password-protected galleries.

You can set a feature photo for your password-protected galleries. If you do that, a photo will show instead of just the lock icon. See http://www.smugmug.com/help/photo-website.

--- Denise

How easily you solved my problems! Works great and is looking just right now. Whew! I was worried my $30 was down the drain.

Thanks and Cheers.

scotticus

Organization...
Hi Abouna, sorry to hear you were having trouble with the organization of your site. Either way you were doing it would work for your purposes. It may be easiest for you to just keep them all under one category. But you are correct, you do need to password protect them at the gallery level if you only want the people you select to see them. I generally think of Galleries as events or collections of photos relating to something specific (e.g. 2008 Soccer Championship), and categories are used to group/organize these collections. Categories become especially useful when you have hundreds of galleries. If you don't want them (or anyone) to see the locked photo icon, you can manually choose a photo for each gallery. Simply navigate to the photo you want to use in the gallery, click the 'Tools' menu, and look in the 'This Photo' section, where you will want to select 'More' and then click 'Feature'. That will change the locked photo icon to the photo you just selected.

I hope this helped, and be sure to let me know if you have more questions....

Thanks,
Scott.

Abouna wrote:

OK, so I'm a new user. I've tried to get my head around the whole Categories & Galleries thing. I'm stalled.

I started by creating several galleries with appropriate categories like travel, kids, holiday etc. My problem is that I want all these to be private (they are all family related). I don't want to lock the whole site as I'll be adding public galleries eventually.

So to start I made each gallery password protected. As you know this makes for a very messy homepage. I then decided to move all my galleries into ONE category (I named it Private) in the hopes that I could password protect the category and then leave the galleries within it without passwords (which would be best, I want family members to enter a password once and then see image icons for each gallery within the category, not the locked symbol). That doesn't work because you can't password protect a category.

I figure there's a simple way to arrange all this and I'm just too dumb to figure it out.

Some help please.

http://abouna.smugmug.com/

olegos

I just make all galleries private, and they don't show up on my home page at all (unless there is super-private stuff there, I don't even bother password protecting them). For family & friends if I want them to see several galleries at once I create sharegroups.

MikaGrin

hi

Abouna wrote:

OK, so I'm a new user. I've tried to get my head around the whole Categories & Galleries thing. I'm stalled.

I started by creating several galleries with appropriate categories like travel, kids, holiday etc. My problem is that I want all these to be private (they are all family related). I don't want to lock the whole site as I'll be adding public galleries eventually.

So to start I made each gallery password protected. As you know this makes for a very messy homepage. I then decided to move all my galleries into ONE category (I named it Private) in the hopes that I could password protect the category and then leave the galleries within it without passwords (which would be best, I want family members to enter a password once and then see image icons for each gallery within the category, not the locked symbol). That doesn't work because you can't password protect a category.

I figure there's a simple way to arrange all this and I'm just too dumb to figure it out.

Some help please.

http://abouna.smugmug.com/

What you can do if you want alot of galleries quickly to be private is to create a single gallery, make it public with a password, upload juste one photo than you gone feature (this one gone be the thumbnail in your cathegory...), and in the same gallery put the links (with a bit of HTML code) of all the galleries (you have previewsly unlist them) you want to be private.


i hope that's help you, Mika

wslam

i am not sure if this is exactly what you want, but you can bulk update the password/public/unlisted by using Smugbrowser (plugin for FireFox)