Category/Subcategory question...

Lou Gonzalez

I have a question now that the new NiceName feature is out. I am a wedding photographer and I show clients their weddings via a series of galleries. I have a category called "Weddings_2009", then a subcategory witht the client name "The Fishels". The inside that sub-category I have their galleries. Here's a real life example:

http://lifesharephoto.smugmug.com/Weddings2009/The-Fishels

Some savvy customers may realize that they could just chop off the "The-Fishels" from the URL and now they can see any of my other client's weddings.

How can I avoid that from happening??? Is there a way to lock down a sub-category for visitors? Is there code I can put in that makes any subcategory hidden where the user is not logged in? Just a thought.

Allen

Lou Gonzalez wrote:

I have a question now that the new NiceName feature is out. I am a wedding photographer and I show clients their weddings via a series of galleries. I have a category called "Weddings_2009", then a subcategory witht the client name "The Fishels". The inside that sub-category I have their galleries. Here's a real life example:

http://lifesharephoto.smugmug.com/Weddings2009/The-Fishels

Some savvy customers may realize that they could just chop off the "The-Fishels" from the URL and now they can see any of my other client's weddings.

How can I avoid that from happening??? Is there a way to lock down a sub-category for visitors? Is there code I can put in that makes any subcategory hidden where the user is not logged in? Just a thought.

You might add this to your CSS as a work-around just in case they try that.

.notLoggedIn .category_Weddings_2009 #subcategoriesBox {display: none;}

Lou Gonzalez

Allen wrote:

You might add this to your CSS as a work-around just in case they try that.

.notLoggedIn .category_Weddings_2009 #subcategoriesBox {display: none;}

Works like a charm! Thank you so much!!!

jfriend

You could also make all galleries unlisted (so they will never show through your normal site) and then create a sharegroup for each wedding and you just send the sharegroup link to your client. A sharegroup is kind of like a private category.

Or, you could password protected each gallery in a wedding, one unique password per wedding (same for all the galleries in that wedding) and just include the password when you send the client the link. The client will only have to enter the password once and nobody else can view the images.

Lou Gonzalez

jfriend wrote:

You could also make all galleries unlisted (so they will never show through your normal site) and then create a sharegroup for each wedding and you just send the sharegroup link to your client. A sharegroup is kind of like a private category.

Or, you could password protected each gallery in a wedding, one unique password per wedding (same for all the galleries in that wedding) and just include the password when you send the client the link. The client will only have to enter the password once and nobody else can view the images.

Good suggestion. I never really used sharegroups and I really like them, however I am having some small problems. I set one up and see a couple of issues.

Here's the sharegroup: http://photos.lifesharephoto.com/share/Ndm2Q2eLqQTFU

The 1st issue I see is that the gallery shows the updated date and part of the gallery description. I have all of the galleries set to clean but the info is still showing in the sharegroup.

Also the page title says: Smugmug Photo & Video Sharing. You look better here.

Shouldn't it be saying my page title for my account set in my control panel?

Is there a way around this???

Lou Gonzalez

Allen wrote:

You might add this to your CSS as a work-around just in case they try that.

.notLoggedIn .category_Weddings_2009 #subcategoriesBox {display: none;}

Allen,

Interestingly enough, the code you provided works for IE but not for FF. Any idea why?

Can you see the galleries in FF?

http://lifesharephoto.smugmug.com/Weddings2009

Allen

Lou Gonzalez wrote:

Allen,

Interestingly enough, the code you provided works for IE but not for FF. Any idea why?

Can you see the galleries in FF?

http://lifesharephoto.smugmug.com/Weddings2009

Remove the red comma on all these

.notLoggedIn .category_Weddings_2009 #subcategoriesBox, {display: none;}

Lou Gonzalez

Allen wrote:

Remove the red comma on all these

.notLoggedIn .category_Weddings_2009 #subcategoriesBox, {display: none;}

That did it! Thanks again! I really appreciate your help!