New photo gallery discussion

[Rik]

How to hide an album:

Login
Edit Album
Scroll down to "Hide Album"
Tick the hidden checkbox
Save

Thanks to Martin for the solution.

[Phil123]

That hides the album to everyone though even ones that go directly to my albums url.

[Rik]

OK, I'll go back and ask again...

[Phil123]

OK, I'll go back and ask again...

Thanks Rik, sorry for being a pain in the arse.

[Rik]

Hi Phil

Once you give someone your private URL, they can see the album on the front page of the gallery. However, other people cannot. I've just verified this with Martin, who's hidden his album. If I login via my own page, I can't see it. If I login directly to his album, then go to the front page, I can. You'll always see your own album, a bit like you can see your email address in the forum, when others can't.

[Phil123]

Hi Phil

Once you give someone your private URL, they can see the album on the front page of the gallery. However, other people cannot. I've just verified this with Martin, who's hidden his album. If I login via my own page, I can't see it. If I login directly to his album, then go to the front page, I can. You'll always see your own album, a bit like you can see your email address in the forum, when others can't.

edit: Thanks Rik, I've figured it out now thanks.

[Rik]

Great - tell me how.

[Inactive]

Tell us all.. 

[Phil123]

Great - tell me how.

Just followed your instructions. I was thinking the URL was http://gallery.idnet.com/main.php/v/username when infact it was http://gallery.idnet.com/main.php/v/username/album_name

My stupidity was the problem Rik. Thanks as always for the help. Have some more karma 

[Rik]

Thanks, Phil. I don't think it's stupidity, we are all trying to find out how the thing works, we just need a more detailed manual.

[Phil123]

Just a suggestion as the system is still in Beta. It would be good if you could hide all your albums from been on the IDNet gallery page but point your friends to http://gallery.idnet.com/main.php/v/username so they can see all your albums in one place and browse all of them. This doesn't seem to be possible at the moment as you have to point them to each individual album like http://gallery.idnet.com/main.php/v/username/album_name

[Rik]

AFAIK, Phil, that's a limitation of the software, but I'll ask IDNet if it can be done. Nothing will change, though, until the new year - unless Martin gets bored.

The software is officially out of beta now, btw.

[Inactive]

The software is officially out of beta now, btw.

Which means none of us has managed to break it.

[Rik]

... and there have been enough comments to tweak into IDNet shape.

[Phil123]

AFAIK, Phil, that's a limitation of the software, but I'll ask IDNet if it can be done. Nothing will change, though, until the new year - unless Martin gets bored.

The software is officially out of beta now, btw.

Fair enough. It should still be very useful.

[Rik]

Hi Phil

I've had a response from Martin:

This is the case, the system is hierarchical so you can hide everything or just one album. I have hidden everything and  http://gallery.idnet.com/main.php/v/martin works despite it being hidden. The instructions on the https://www.idnet.net/secure/account/webspace/gallery.jsp page if followed exactly will do what is being suggested providing individual albums haven't been hidden previously.

If you hide individual albums then giving someone your http://gallery.idnet.com/main.php/v/username address it will not show anything as the individual albums have been hidden. (to rectify the situation unhide the albums and then follow the instructions on  https://www.idnet.net/secure/account/webspace/gallery.jsp

[Phil123]

Thanks Rik. I tried hiding everything and it didn't work for me,  so this is what I have done:

Created an album (hidden) that contains nothing but sub albums (un-hidden). Now when I log out and go to http://gallery.idnet.com/main.php/v/username/hidden_album it takes me to the hidden album and when I click on the un-hidden sub albums they are visible.

Hope that makes sense, I suspect I might be going round the houses doing this but it seems to work and as far as I can see even though the sub-albums are un-hidden they don't seem to be visible on the IDNet gallery page.

[Rik]

Hi Phil

I think you and Martin are saying the same thing, but differently, if you know what I mean.

[Phil123]

Hi Phil

I think you and Martin are saying the same thing, but differently, if you know what I mean.

Yes, I think you could be right. I finally got there anyway even if it was by trial and error.

Thanks as always for all the help Rik

[Rik]

My pleasure.

[Phil123]

Just noticed my album had become visible on the IDNet gallery page. I logged in checked my album still had hidden checked, which it did so I clicked save and the album disappeared again from the IDNet gallery page. Must be a slight glitch somewhere?

[Rik]

Sounds like it, Phil. Let me know if it happens again and I'll raise it with IDNet (or drop them an email yourself). I can now get in to my gallery space again, so maybe something odd happened?

[colirv]

Does anyone know if the traffic from viewing our galleries counts towards our bandwidth usage? In a way it seems right that it should, but equally we have little control over how much viewing takes place.

[Rik]

Afaik, the upload doesn't count in the normal way, and only our own viewing counts to the download total.

[colirv]

Super. Thanks Rik - again!