Thirded.. This is crucial if you have multiple users/logins, and would be an excellent feature that would propel Director to a new level of greatness..

Ditto. I kind of assumed it was set up with privacy areas, so I was actually surprised to learn each user could see each others galleries. Makes for some confusion I would say. Any hope of this getting patched?

yep, would be a really useful feature, hoping its implemented soon.
TT

I too would very welcome that.

Does the new announcement of a hosted version of Director mean that you will push some of the user management features out to those of us who would like to run this on our own server? I know that you had said a while back that there would never be a user signup feature, but hopefully we will be able, as an admin, to create user accounts with granular permissions soon?

Um, please?

This is how I assumed Director would be setup. As a designer, I would love to use this application as a default photogallery for my clients to use, with a login to upload photos to their own slide shows. I don't really want to hack your code because I would be going against the license and would lose all support. Perhaps a slightly more expensive option with this feature would be a solution for us all. Hope it comes soon. Have 3 sites waiting on it!!

commmktg wrote:

Ditto. I kind of assumed it was set up with privacy areas, so I was actually surprised to learn each user could see each others galleries. Makes for some confusion I would say. Any hope of this getting patched?

ditto, Ditto, DITTO . . . d   i   t   t   o

I spent a while looking hard at my demo hosted account trying to set such permissions - made no sense not to have this control over permissions.

This is sort of a deal breaker for professional application of SSP for multi-contributor publishing of slideshows?

Really hoping for some clear commitment from the SSP team on this ASAP? 

Hoping we can still move forward using SSP for our application?

I also NEED this functionality...limit users to their own albums...I am currently looking at alternatives because of this requirement for a non-profit artist site. PLEASE add this...thanks

Robert

I would certainly be willing to pay extra for this...anyone else??

G'day guys,

not sure which is the "master" thread - and best place to register your interest - but there appears to be more "DDI interaction" on this one:

http://forums.slideshowpro.net/viewtopi … 748#p34748

I'm really hoping we can get even some basic granularity to the permissions.

Happy Christmas / Holidays / Festive season of choice, and all that,


Thomas

Just lost a client due to this feature not being available.  I gave a new client access, she went in and mucked around with some galleries thinking they were examples!!

Caused the first client to go ape and subsequently elsewhere for business!!

I have a big contract coming up with several hundred photo's and I cannot have this clients' material viewed by anyone, let alone edited.

I have been singing Director's praises to this client and now it looks like I am going to have to find another solution - easiest being, buy another license specifically for the new client.

Perhaps that's the reason for not including this functionality - or am I being too cynical?

First I'd like to say I've been using Director only a short time, and it's very impressive. The interface design and usability is superb.

I logged on tonight to request the same feature about limiting access. Glad to see so many others already asking for it.

I thought the feature was already in Director, I was looking for it. Surprised it's not there. For now I can trust the staff here to edit their own galleries only, but it would be good -- just to make it easier for them -- if the only galleries presented to them on log-in, were their own.

I too would like to add my voice to the many that are requesting this feature.

Last edited by clixbits (2008-01-28 05:23:39)

I too would really benefit from this and I'm sure many other future SSD clients would as well.

Any word on this from the developers?

Last edited by allwebnow (2008-02-07 19:09:33)

we definitely need this. hmm, or will this never happen so that we have to buy multiple keys for director. oh no, a conspiracy?

Last edited by kevin186 (2008-02-16 13:01:24)

I agree with all of you. Having multiple users  doesn't make much sense to me if they cannot be limited to certain galleries or albums. I would love to have this feature.

I'm going to throw my support in for in for this. In the land of Web 2.0 and community-based sites, this seems like a must-have.

I'm trying to find a place where I didn't give straight talk on this issue

I feel we've been very upfront about this particular request. We are careful not to promise features we are not currently working on, that way we keep expectations where they need to be. So, I'll say it again: We are not currently working on extending user permissions, nor do we have any immediate plans to do so. It should also be noted that we have very short roadmaps, so the only thing I can predict is what will be in 1.2, and I know user permissions won't be changed in that release. Our focus with 1.2 is the API which will lead to some new stuff at SlideShowPro that we think is pretty cool and we will talk about that when the time comes.

As far as if we are intentionally steering clear of extending user permissions in order to promote more licenses for our other products, it's actually the opposite. Most people who want an extension of user permissions *really* want one Director install that can setup individual accounts for different clients. If this ever did materialize with Director, it would be a different license and it definitely would not cost $29 (it would cost more). So, it wouldn't hurt our other products, it would be an enhancement to our product lineup. So why haven't we done it? We have limited time and for us to implement a new feature we have to balance how long it will take with how much demand there is for it. And right now, we feel we have features in the pipeline that will be useful to more of our customers (present and future) than user permissions.

So that's the company line at this point in time. We haven't planned anything post 1.2, so we'll evaluate this request when we get there along with the other feature requests posted here.

I have to agree with Brad's reply, being a software developer as well.
I may be wrong about this (Brad correct me if I am) but someone wanting to use director for multiple clients should just buy a copy for each client. You can set yourself as an administator on each install. At $29 for each client that seems very reasonable(and a 20 license pack is 23.75 a license).

This just makes it a little harder for the person that has to administer multiple installs but if they added this people might  have hundreds of accounts being used for something that only cost them $29.  Hey Brad needs to eat too!

I agree this is a must for the next release.  There's a CRM calles Xoops that has some of these permission based restrictions easily worked into the PHP to give the administrator a lot of flexibility to restrict users permissions on many parameters.  But to be as specific as possible, this is how I'd like to see it implemeneted:

1.  Album level access:  Users restricted to adding and deleting content to certain albums only.  Album access set by Administrator

2.  More flexibility for restricting permissions for adding and deleting content and albums. Administrator could chose from the following for each user by radio button or drop down list:

a) user allowed only to add, Not delete images.
b) user allowed to add images, and delete ONLY those imaged they added.
c) user allowed to add and delete ALL images.

Then

a) user allowed only to add, Not delete albums.
b) user allowed to add albums, and delete ONLY those ialbums theycreated.
c) user allowed to add and delete ALL albums.
d) user NOT allowed to add OR delete ANY albums.  Can only use existing albums.

As far as % of users who what this feature, I'm not sure if 5% is accurate and how do you come up with that number anyway?  Even on a small installation of say a family album.  I may want my Uncle Ed, Grandpa Rene, and Cousin Katie to be able to add images but I might want to restrict how much they can muck around with images and albums that don't belong to them.  To me this seems like a pretty basic feature set. 

So I'm on my hands and knees too and will pay in gallons of gasoline to have it added!!!

Thanks,
bikeguy

ps.  really great product!! Way to go!!

Last edited by bikeguy (2008-05-26 05:32:31)

I actually purchased Director on the understanding it already had this user access feature so many are requesting.

On the Director product page it says...

"Setup multiple user logins for your content contributors, each with unique permissions and access levels."

There a 3 features advertised here :

1. Multiple user logins
2. Unique Permissions
3. Access levels

I cannot see how the function to limit user access to certain galleries doesn't fall under any of these 3 items. Perhaps a clarification, or adjustment to the wording is needed from SSPRO authors, or better yet actually build the feature that is at present, falsely advertised.

Regards
pagan12

I would like to add my voice to the request.
and basically what I want as a new feature is exactly the same thing as what thomas requested and the reason is also the same.
I want to be able to limit the access of a specific user to a specific gallery / album because I don't want a contributor to mess up the content contributed by somebody else.
It is a major issue for me to the extend that at this time I will sadly stop using SSP and turn to something else where this functionality is present or manageable. and that really does not make me happy because the product is great and I love it. But I just cannot trust a contributor and risk to get all my content screwed up.

I very well understand the problem of selling one license used by  high number of users instead of selling a license for each individual user and that make perfect sense, but..... my users just don't have a domain to install the product on. I want all of them to use the same domain (for various practical reasons).
If I could install as many instances of director under the same domain than I would have no problem buying one license for each client I have and give each of my client their own director but that MUST be under the same domain.

By the way, is that possible ?

L

I just wanted to say I have not used SlideShowPro numerous times just because of this.... so thats money that your company is missing out on because of this... and I'm sure other web developers might be in the same boat as me in that.  By not having this feature, it is limiting your business...

Also, "how long it will take with how much demand there is for it. And right now, we feel we have features in the pipeline that will be useful to more of our customers (present and future) than user permissions."

With the number of posts in this subject, I really think it shows that quite a few users need this feature to properly serve client needs.. There are at least 7 sites that I would gladly purchase director for IF AND ONLY IF, this feature is present.  I am stuck with utilizing other options that I don't like very much.... I would really like to use slideshow pro for them instead, but it lacks this feature.

Any word on this from the developers?  How many requests will it take to have this be implemented?