embedded slideshow from passworded gallery

FJakeRFJakeR Registered Users Posts: 3 Beginner grinner
edited March 23, 2011 in SmugMug Support
Hi,

I have a private site that I'm setting up, so when a person has access to the site, they are already logged in and have entered a pw to gain trusted access.

I have a gallery that is pw protected in SM.

I want to embed a slideshow of this gallery on my website.

I have spent the last couple hours searching here but can't seem to find an answer that I can understand...I'm not very adept at website programming.

When I go to the Share button it says I can't have a slideshow with a pw protected gallery.

Question 1: Can this be done using SM and if yes, how?

Question 2: Assuming this can be done, since the person who arrives at the slideshow already is trusted I don't want the slideshow to prompt for a pw. In the coding of the slideshow embed, is there a line that allows for the sending of the pw for the slideshow so it is transparent for the user?


Summary: I want to have a person login to my website and be able to go to a slideshow page where they will find a slideshow of a password protected gallery playing.

Thanks for the help!

Jake

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  • jfriendjfriend Registered Users Posts: 8,097 Major grins
    edited March 21, 2011
    The only way I know of to do this is to make a separate copy of the photos in an unlisted gallery (that the regular public won't have access to) and then make the slideshow from that gallery.

    A password protected gallery requires a password to access. You can't do anything from your external site to bypass that. Presumably you can see why it has to be this way.

    You might also be able to assign a unique keyword to every photo in the current password-protected gallery, then create a non-password protected and unlisted virtual gallery that targets that keyword and create the slideshow from that. But, you'd have to test that to see if it actually works.
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  • MalteMalte Registered Users Posts: 1,181 Major grins
    edited March 22, 2011
    jfriend wrote: »
    ...You might also be able to assign a unique keyword to every photo in the current password-protected gallery, then create a non-password protected and unlisted virtual gallery that targets that keyword and create the slideshow from that. But, you'd have to test that to see if it actually works.

    To my knowledge, photos in a virtual gallery always inherit properties from their original galleries. I wish it could work like how you describe.

    Malte
  • jfriendjfriend Registered Users Posts: 8,097 Major grins
    edited March 22, 2011
    Malte wrote: »
    To my knowledge, photos in a virtual gallery always inherit properties from their original galleries. I wish it could work like how you describe.

    Malte
    They do inherit properties (like max viewable size), but the virtual gallery gets its own access settings. If you set it to not be password protected, it won't be password protected. Wouldn't take long to try it.
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  • MalteMalte Registered Users Posts: 1,181 Major grins
    edited March 22, 2011
    jfriend wrote: »
    They do inherit properties (like max viewable size), but the virtual gallery gets its own access settings. If you set it to not be password protected, it won't be password protected. Wouldn't take long to try it.

    Holy smokes, seems you're correct. eek7.gifbarb Is there a spec sheet somewhere specifying what settings apply where? For instance, I would consider max viewable size an access setting.

    Malte
  • jfriendjfriend Registered Users Posts: 8,097 Major grins
    edited March 22, 2011
    Malte wrote: »
    Holy smokes, seems you're correct. eek7.gifbarb Is there a spec sheet somewhere specifying what settings apply where? For instance, I would consider max viewable size an access setting.

    Malte
    Not that I know of.
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  • FJakeRFJakeR Registered Users Posts: 3 Beginner grinner
    edited March 22, 2011
    jfriend wrote: »

    A password protected gallery requires a password to access. You can't do anything from your external site to bypass that. Presumably you can see why it has to be this way.

    Well, I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed, but I can't see why it has to be that way. I'm new to we programming. I was thinking of something like making a call to SM from my site, sending the gallery number, and then also sending the pw from my site in that call. Kind of like logging into ftp with credentials. If the call comes to SM with the correct pw supplied, I don't see where that is any different than a person accessing a link and then having to enter a pw.

    I have photos that I don't want anyone to see except for 10 or so people who have access to my website. I can access the photos by a img link and display them, but not in slideshow format. Seems strange to me.

    I'm probably in the minority here because it seems most people here want to show off everything and get everyone to look. I don't want anyone to look at my pics and that's one of the reasons I bought SM was for the security, so I like that, but just wish there was a call on the SM side that would allow a pw to be sent a recognized to gain access to the slideshow link.

    Thanks,
    Jake
  • jfriendjfriend Registered Users Posts: 8,097 Major grins
    edited March 22, 2011
    FJakeR wrote: »
    Well, I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed, but I can't see why it has to be that way. I'm new to we programming. I was thinking of something like making a call to SM from my site, sending the gallery number, and then also sending the pw from my site in that call. Kind of like logging into ftp with credentials. If the call comes to SM with the correct pw supplied, I don't see where that is any different than a person accessing a link and then having to enter a pw.

    I have photos that I don't want anyone to see except for 10 or so people who have access to my website. I can access the photos by a img link and display them, but not in slideshow format. Seems strange to me.

    I'm probably in the minority here because it seems most people here want to show off everything and get everyone to look. I don't want anyone to look at my pics and that's one of the reasons I bought SM was for the security, so I like that, but just wish there was a call on the SM side that would allow a pw to be sent a recognized to gain access to the slideshow link.

    Thanks,
    Jake
    If you can custom code your own slideshow, that can be done with programming. Smugmug's API supports accessing password protected galleries by supplying the password programmatically. But, I don't know of any way to get their existing slideshow to work that way.
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  • FJakeRFJakeR Registered Users Posts: 3 Beginner grinner
    edited March 23, 2011
    jfriend wrote: »
    If you can custom code your own slideshow, that can be done with programming. Smugmug's API supports accessing password protected galleries by supplying the password programmatically. But, I don't know of any way to get their existing slideshow to work that way.

    Righteous! That's what I wanted to hear. I'm going to have to learn a lot to figure it out but that's ok.

    Thanks.
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