Problems making a new album with Gallery Remote.

I'm having a problem with Gallery Remote ver 1.1b14 for Windows.
It will NOT let me create a new album. I have to log on via web (IE) and create a new album there before using GR to add pictures.
This was also the case in ver 1.1b13.
The gallery is powered by Gallery 1.3.4 (Christian's gallery, yes we are related).
When I try to create a new album, it tries to do it in the ROOT directory of the gallry, and I do not have the rights to add albums there. Yes, I HAVE entered the correct sub album to create the new album in, but still it does not work.
I assume this is a bug, or if not, not very intuatively made (I do not read manuals unless I have to!!).
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Torbjorn, could you post the log of a session where you try to do this?

You'll have to read some of the manual to find out how to do this, sorry

Sorry, but I feel that logfile reveals far more information than I'm prepared to publish here. So I'm afraid we will just have to live with the problem I guess. Or can you be specific in which of the almost 1800 lines from the log you require?

Thanks h0bbel. I'll have to fix that soon...

Fixed in latest CVS..

Hi all,

I urgently needed this feature (allowing users to create sub-albums under postnuke using gallery remote) and I found a solution using another post from JDOG and then adding an if clause in the albums.php.
This will only permit user Admin to create top-level albums but will enable your users to create sub-albums ... so it's a 'quick and dirty' fix ...

orginal post (so do this first):

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Post by JDOG on Jul 18, 2003 - 11:33 PM

If you would like normal users to create top level photo albums (as the original quested asked), here is your solution:

Edit modules/gallery/classes/postnuke0.7.1/Users.php
Find this line:

$this->canCreateAlbums = 0;

Change to:

$this->canCreateAlbums = (pnSecAuthAction(0, 'Gallery::', '::', ACCESS_ADD));

Now go to the PostNuke Administration Menu.
Click on Groups
Click on Add a new group
Name the group gallery_users (or whatever you like)
Click new group
Then add the users which you want to this group.

Now return to the Administration menu and click on Permissions
Click on "New group permission"
Under group select gallery_users
Under Component enter-> Gallery::
Under Instance enter-> ::
under permission level select-> Add

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Then add an 'if' clause in the albums.php where the CreateAlbums code is because otherwise all users have access to creating top-level albums... we only want Admin to be able to do this :

replace in ./albums.php:

if ($gallery->user->canCreateAlbums() && !$gallery->session->offline) {
	$adminCommands .= "<a href=" . doCommand("new-album", array(), "view_album.php") . ">[". _("new album") ."]</a>&";
}

by

if ($gallery->user->isAdmin()){
	if ($gallery->user->canCreateAlbums() && !$gallery->session->offline) {
		$adminCommands .= "<a href=" . doCommand("new-album", array(), "view_album.php") . ">[". _("new album") ."]</a>&";
	}
}

hope this helps out some people ...

grtz,

Benjamin