Gallery Login/Protection Suggestion

markymark

I'd like the ability to have a single page signon for clients where they enter a username/password to access their galleries. Currently they would have to enter a password for each separate gallery and in some cases locate them in different heirarchies.

So in my suggestion:

1) Gallery or galleries are created.

2) You can associate the gallery/galleries with a username.

3) You can customise the 'login' page with CSS so that it has a consistent look for clients.

What are your thoughts?

jfriend

A couple things you might want to know:

A given client's galleries would only be in different parts of the hierarchy if you put them in different parts. You control that and can put them in the same sub-category so they are together.

If you give all galleries for a given client the same client password (something one would usually do), then the client only has to enter the password once and they can get into all the galleries with that same password.

I realize this doesn't give you the client login you asked for, but these other things can be worked around with the right configuration.

markymark

jfriend wrote: »

A couple things you might want to know....

Hey thanks for the reply and for the informative response.

I have already setup my galleries in the number of ways you suggested (same passwords, structures, etc.). I guess what I'm trying to communicate is that I'd like the ability for the client to enter 1 password for x number of galleries rather than entering a password each time the person enters a gallery. And when setting up a user with a username/password or password only system, you then simply attach whichever galleries/smart galleries, etc. you wish into their 'client area'.

Doing this also means you could have 1 login page for all clients. Currently if I have say 50 Weddings, I'd have 50 entries on the page where the client would have to look for their name and then enter that gallery. Something like this would be great because the client regardless whether they are a wedding, commercial or whatever, could log into one simply interface rather than having to go searching for their name or gallery.

I could do all the workarounds I want but something like this would be great - it's just a suggestion.

scoril0

Bump.

jfriend

markymark wrote: »

Hey thanks for the reply and for the informative response.

I have already setup my galleries in the number of ways you suggested (same passwords, structures, etc.). I guess what I'm trying to communicate is that I'd like the ability for the client to enter 1 password for x number of galleries rather than entering a password each time the person enters a gallery. And when setting up a user with a username/password or password only system, you then simply attach whichever galleries/smart galleries, etc. you wish into their 'client area'.

Doing this also means you could have 1 login page for all clients. Currently if I have say 50 Weddings, I'd have 50 entries on the page where the client would have to look for their name and then enter that gallery. Something like this would be great because the client regardless whether they are a wedding, commercial or whatever, could log into one simply interface rather than having to go searching for their name or gallery.

I could do all the workarounds I want but something like this would be great - it's just a suggestion.

I understand. Smugmug doesn't offer that functionality. You can formally request it here: http://feedback.smugmug.com if you want. That's where Smugmug collects feature requests.