User Upload Rights to Private Albums

[afrohead]

I have searched for a long time on the forums about this and haven't found the information I need so here goes.  As an admin I have created a private album for a certain user group to see, and this is the trick - upload to.  I ended up installing the UserPerms mod to allow users to upload into different albums, but when the album is private (i.e. password protected) they still cannot upload to the private album.    If the album is not private it works great.  Is there another mod that would allow users of a group to be able to upload into a private album I have created?  My last resort would be to create a user account they all could access and make a private album for that user for the group, but unforunately that opens up an unscrupulous user to delete the album or do other undesired things to the private user (group) album.  Also, I want the general public to see the Private Icon for my private group album, but CM doesn't work this way for private user albums from what I understand.  With that being said my requirement is to have this be a password protected album so the public can see the private icon not merely have the visibility of the album turned off.  Thanks

[Joachim Müller]

"Private" doesn't mean "password protected". You're mixing up those terms.

[afrohead]

For others that might have an interest in the topic please disregard the parenthetical comment beginning in i.e.  Thanks

[Colt45]

I'm wondering if this thread may be related
http://forum.coppermine-gallery.net/index.php?topic=50321.0

[Joachim Müller]

I'm not sure if I understand the question properly: "private" as we (coppermine devs) use it applies to the accessibility (visibility) of albums. You can grant the permission to view an album to everybody (public), the owner of that album or to a specific group, using the field "Album can be viewed by" on the album properties page.
Coppermine does not come with an option to specify only a specific group to upload to a particular album if you allow several usergroups to upload in the first place. However, you can enable the permission to upload to an admin-created album. Additionally, users can only upload to albums they're allowed to see in the first place.
This being said, I can't see your issue: as far as I understand, you have a particular group (let's name them "artists") that is meant to be allowed to view a particular album (let's name it "contributions by artists"). Only members of that specific group are suppossed to be able to access that specific album - no other user who doesn't belong to that group is suppossed to be able to view the album "contributions by artists". Is this correct? If yes, then go to the album properties screen of our album "contributions by artists", and change the dropdown field "Album can be viewed by" to "Members of the 'artists' group" and save your changes. As a result, only group members of the artists group will be able to access that album. Now you want to allow them to upload to that album as well? OK, go to the groups page, make sure that the group "artists" does have the permission to upload to admin-created albums: set "Public albums upload" to "yes" for the artists group. Don't worry about the word "public" there - it is a bit misleading and should actually be named "Upload to admin-created albums". Save your changes. Finally go back to the album properties screen of the album "contributions by artists" and set "Visitors can upload files" to "yes" and save your changes. Don't be afraid that "visitors" means "anybody" - this is not the case. It just means "people belonging to a group that is allowed to upload to admin-created albums as set up on the groups page". You might think "hey, but I have other groups that are allowed to upload to admin-created albums. I don't want them to upload to the album <<contributions by artists>>", but don't worry: we have set visibility to "members of the artists group only" - visitors who are not allowed to see that album are of course not allowed to upload to it.
For the above mentioned steps you don't need additional lmods or plugins - those are core features of coppermine.

HTH

Joachim