Hi,

I have a photographer client that likes simple image gallery pro and I was wondering if there is an easy way of setting passwords for galleries using the extension.
e.g. client 1 would have the passwords for a particular gallery, client 2 has the passwords for their gallery etc.

Does anyone have a particular workflow for this using Simple Image Gallery pro - or just use the Joomla user/password system to handle this.
What do other people recommend?

Thanks for any advice you can give, and I really appreciate it!

Hello Simon, are you using K2 or the regular Joomla! articles?
Also can these galleries be viewed by the public?

Thanks Krikor,

Just using the regular joomla articles.
currently, the articles are public, but I can look at managing the articles via the joomla user system.
just wondered if there was a common/recommended workflow for passwording simple image gallery pro galleries.

This more easily done from the frontend, since there is no way to grand access into specific galleries in the backend.

I am pasting an excerpt from the documentation which explains it better:

Can frontend (registered) users upload image galleries? Frontend registered users are allowed to upload image galleries to their articles (or any other Joomla extension) by using the same process as backend users. When using the editor plugin button, frontend users can upload galleries to an automatically created user gallery folder. This prevents e.g. user "John" from seeing & modifying the galleries upload by user "Jane". Furthermore, they are not allowed to view or modify the image galleries that are uploaded from backend users typically inside the /images folder of a Joomla site. In other words, frontend gallery uploading for registered users is a sandboxed process. They can upload and manage their own galleries only. They cannot manage the galleries created by others. Please note that this "frontend user gallery uploading" feature is different from K2 frontend image gallery uploading (which is already sandboxed as a process too). This feature ONLY applies when using the editor plugin button inside a WYSIWYG editor area to upload a gallery in the frontend.

Thanks very much for info on when users upload/manage their own galleries.

How about if I want to upload a gallery that can only be viewed by client X.
then I want to upload another gallery that can only be viewed by client Y.

If the article is only viewed by that client then the gallery inherits it's ACL. However the manager or Admin will still see all images.

If the user cannot edit any galleries then he will only see the articles he has access to.

great - thanks so much.

You 're welcome Simon.