New User Group, album permissions

[mikeyc]

I have created a new user group however when I go into the groups and click on assigned albums it tells me that the group has no special permissions. I have gone through every section and read the docuentation as well as the FAQ and do not see anything that says how to add albums to user groups. How can I do this?

[Nibbler]

http://coppermine-gallery.net/demo/cpg14x/docs/index.htm#album_prop

[mikeyc]

That really didn't help me.

What I want to do is have a section for staff members and regular members.
Staff members should post in the staff section. I would just like to use group permissions.

In the group section I want to assign albums to each group.

[Tranz]

You don't assign albums to groups, you assign groups to albums, that's why Nibbler's answer is correct.

[DoubleSpeed]

Is it possible to allow public view but restrict upload to members of a group which is assigned to an album?

I can only see how assign a group to an album/s however

Permissions for this album 
Album can be viewed by  example group

I only seem to have the ability to give view permissions to a group rather than allow all to view and restrict upload to the group?

Can anyone help me with this?

[Joachim Müller]

you can't do that. If users belong to a group that is allowed to upload to public albums, then they can upload to all albums that have "visitors can upload" enabled. There's not a more granular upload permission scheme available.

[DoubleSpeed]

Are there any plans to provide this functionality in the future or is there a mod/hack available that would provide for this?

[Joachim Müller]

no mod existing. A more granular permissions scheme is planned for the future, no saying if or when it will be applied though.

[DoubleSpeed]

OK thanks, are there any associated/known developers who are recommended by this project who would undertake custom paid for work to develop this functionality if I can't find another work around?

[Joachim Müller]

You could ask for help on the paid support board (read the sticky thread there first). I don't think though that you'll find someone who will be ready and able to accomplish this, as it would require a major rewrite of coppermine core code in many places.