password protected gallery

You could do this by making that gallery only available in templates that can be viewwed by a particular member group. Simply set up the gallery as normal then go into Templates and click Access on each of those templates and set it to the correct groups. You could then use conditionals to create links to those templates (ie {if logged_in} or {if member_group == "3"} etc….

This is great news for me, too. Can I run something past the forum, though, to see if this is do-able, or if I should look to set it up another way.

I am doing a website for a Photographer who wants to be able to easily upload, watermark, etc etc photographs for people for whom she has done shoots to view. I have literally only started playing with the Gallery module this morning, so I may be being more than a bit slow here, but is it possible to extend the password access restrictions to specific categories?

For example:

I have set up 2 galleries - one for her portfolio shots called, cunningly, ‘portfolio’, and the other for client shoots called ‘cl In client, I figured she could create a new category with its own folder for each shoot. So she may have gallery ‘cl with parent category ‘cl and sub category ‘andy_white’, if she had done a shoot for me, say. She then can batch uploads the photos from my shoot into my category and job done.

I can then get a user name and password from her so I can access the templates the client galleries are displayed by, and the URL to my category page, but, and here is the question, can I set it up logins so each one only accesses a particular category - ie mine only accesses the one for my shoot?

It’s possible I am being unrealistic, or maybe there is a better way to set the whole thing up. It’s the ease of use of the gallery that makes me want to use that over a weblog - the client is stressing about whatever it is she has as a solution being the easiset possible to use, and while locking down a category to specific users is not vital - the template lock down makes it good enough - it would be a nice touch.

Appreciate any ideas/help from anyone further down this track than me.

Cheers

i find my self in a similar situation as andy. would love to get some ideas on how to implement this in a way that would allow a single template to be able to handle multiple users that have access to individual galleries or gallery categories.