Hide categories which user is not allowed to access

[rufu]

I'm wondering if anyone can help me out with this.  I've got 3 categories (public, work & friends), and I want to restrict access to work and friends to people I assign to each group.  This I have managed restrict access by setting the prefs for each album, which is quite slow, but the remaining problem is that the list of categories + sub-categories still appears.

What I want to happen is for unregistered users just to see the public category, users assigned to the work group to see the public + work category, and for users assigned to the friends group to see the public + friends category.

Is this possible?


Thanks

[Joachim Müller]

at the moment not possible without hacking the coppermine core code (index.php), php-knowledge required.

GauGau

[buddhaa]

I'm trying to do the same thing then Rufu, I thing it's an important feature to have. Those categories and albums are too much in the open for 'anon' to see.

Buddhaa

Oh, and how can I delete a dir created by CPG 1.2.1 with 755 chmod. I have no ssh access and ftp won't do it.

[Joachim Müller]

If you can't delete files and folders with ftp you're stuck and will have to ask your webhost to do this for you.

GauGau

P.S. We have a "one question per thread" policy - please don't ask unrelated question on a thread, as you're sort of "hijacking" the original thread. Instead, if you can't find the answer to your question by searching the board and checking the coppermine docs, post a new thread on the relevant board.

[skybax]

Working on the category manager modding to make similar to the album properties feature,  adding a dropdown to allow categories to be viewable by certain groups. A hangup that I see right now is to make a category viewable to multiple groups and hidden from others, haven't figured how to bridge this yet.

Currently no code to post yet. Just an idea @ the moment with a rough sql statement. Working on the display aspect first. Other idea is to add a feature to select thumbnail (or leave blank) for category as well.


-T

[skyxliner]

I'm trying to do the same thing then Rufu, I thing it's an important feature to have. Those categories and albums are too much in the open for 'anon' to see.

Buddhaa

Oh, and how can I delete a dir created by CPG 1.2.1 with 755 chmod. I have no ssh access and ftp won't do it.

if you have cpanel, deleted from cpanel because somehow ftp doesn't allow me to delete folders sometimes
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this seems to be a repeated thread topic, hope you guys at coppermine can add this feature. definetnely useful

[Joachim Müller]

the question was not how to delete a category, it was "how to hide it". You should be able to delete categories using coppermine's built-in category manager.

GauGau

[s2s-robert]

Working on the category manager modding to make similar to the album properties feature,  adding a dropdown to allow categories to be viewable by certain groups. A hangup that I see right now is to make a category viewable to multiple groups and hidden from others, haven't figured how to bridge this yet.

-T

Can't you create a sort of 'access table' where you store which groups / users have access to which categories? If you have a number for both albums and categories you could have only 1 table for both groups & users.

[stace-FT]

I can't even find a way to limit view access by album (and I've checked the FAQ and the documentation). What am I missing?

[Nibbler]

Enabled 'users can have private albums' in config ?

[stace-FT]

Thanks.

And I suppose that user and group permissions take care of users actually being able to upload stuff to albums they create? (I don't want them uploading or creating.)

[Casper]

That's all done in group permissions.