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I've been using Imagevue X2 for a bit less than two days and already like it a lot. But as I think about it, it seems to me to have a built-in limitation which is that it's one gallery, and the different groups of images reside in folders in that one gallery. Therefore there are only two levels, (1) the gallery of all the folders and (2) an individual folder. Either you allow viewers to reach all the folders (by displaying the menu that gives access to them) or you remove that menu and restrict viewers to one the folder of images to which a particular URL takes them (which I've done). That choice is made for the whole gallery.

I can see wanting to give access to different groups of folders to different people, which could be done with some kind of a multiple-level organization of image folders. Has this subject come up before? Of course I don't understand everything about this software yet and maybe there's some way to accomplish this.

I am not quite sure I understand what you are saying about the folders limitation. Are you using the older Imagevue V1, which has a limited folder setup with 2 piers? The newer Imagevue X2 has unlimited depth of folders, and you can choose your own structure as you like ...

You can do as you said and remove the menu, but then you need to target a specific folder in the link. Also, you could create multiple galleries with multiple menu systems, for example: That would create two galleries with separate menu structures and separate content altogether, as they look for subfolders in 2 different content folders.

You can provide different groups of of folders to different people using method explained above, or using specific folders and disabling the menu as you say yourself. Having a more complex system where you choose what folders are available for each user group is a different task. That would require some user group system that stored details for each user group.

Karl,

Thanks for the great reply. I'm using X2 and hadn't explored it enough to know that you can have an unlimited depth of folders. That opens up a lot of possibilities.

For most of my folders, I'll want to limit access to them alone, so I'll use direct links. In your examples of the two links, aren't those to separate folders (content1 and content2) within a gallery rather than to separate galleries?

When using the "contentfolder" parameter, we are actually specifying an entire folder with all its subfolders and content. In that example above, it will load two completely different menu, ultimately with entirely different content.

If you use the "starpath" parameter, you are only setting what folder to start on. The gallery menu will be the same ...

OK, but all within the same imagevue installation, and under one "gallery" folder. Right?

mjau-mjau wrote:When using the "contentfolder" parameter, we are actually specifying an entire folder with all its subfolders and content. In that example above, it will load two completely different menu, ultimately with entirely different content.

If you use the "starpath" parameter, you are only setting what folder to start on. The gallery menu will be the same ...

Yes that ´s right ...