Photo Album Ownership And Control #membership
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In Yahoo Groups the member creator of a Photo Album was also the owner, and could lock up the album so it could only be viewed by others. The owner could also unlock the album if they wanted, which would allow other members to add to it. The only other person or persons that were allowed to control the member's album was a moderator or owner. My question is; Is that they way Groups.io works in relation to Photos and Photo Albums?
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Hi Don, John Russell |
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A vaguely related question:?
Photo albums on groups.io appear to be completely unlabeled as to owner and creation date. If this information is being maintained internally for access control, why is it not displayed? I'd like to be able to follow up with some people to see if they still want to keep all the old photos that were moved by the transfer agent. I can't figure out who to contact without going back to Y!G to look it up. I suspect the situation will only get worse as new albums are created. Thanks, Bruce |
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Actually, if you're the group owner (or a moderator with permission), you can see the settings for any album.? It will be either 'Group Access' (default) or 'Personal Access'.? If it's set to 'Personal Access', only the creator and group owners/mods can add to or delete from it.
Duane -- Help: /static/help GMF's Wiki: /g/GroupManagersForum/wiki Search button at the top of Messages list |
¿ªÔÆÌåÓýJohn, ? The conclusion I¡¯ve come to is only a moderator or the actual owner of the album and pictures can edit them, so when no ownership of the album and pictures are indicated only the moderator can edit them. If you open any picture, down in the lower left under the picture, you will see a name indicating the owner of the picture. If you see no name, or the moderator¡¯s name, then the album will only be under the control of the moderator. The work around for getting the rightful owner of the album and pictures is like this. The moderator downloads the pictures to their computer, then sends them to the owner. The moderator then deletes the album. The owner of the pictures makes a new album, and uploads the pictures into it. There is a setting under Edit Album that allows Group Access (Any group member can add photos to this album.) or Personal Access (Only you and the moderators can add photos to this album.) , but I would think most people would pick Personal Access to their albums. ? In my group I have many albums that have defaulted to me as the owner, and I thought this happened when the member left the group before the transfer, leaving the album with no ownership. I¡¯ve found out today that is not necessarily the case, as I have one member that lost ownership to their album, and they want it back. ? Don ? From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John Russell ? Hi Don, John Russell |
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We kinda have two discussions going at the same time here.I am to blame for this and my apologies.
If I open a photo, I can see who created the photo...but how do I figure out who created the enclosing album? Several of our albums are group access and a clear indication of who owns them with a date/timestamp would be very handy...especially for cleanup purposes when such people eventually leave the group. ?I know the information is being stored internally and it shouldn't be that difficult to display it. I have requested this addition in beta. Bruce |
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On Fri, Mar 2, 2018 at 01:44 pm, Bruce Bowman wrote:
group access If it's Group Access, technically no one owns it.? It might say who created it, but that wouldn't really make any difference if others are adding/deleting photos. Duane -- Help: /static/help GMF's Wiki: /g/GroupManagersForum/wiki Search button at the top of Messages list |
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I have a lot of albums transferred from Yahoo! Groups, which seem to have reverted to Personal access but I can't see the owner. I am laboriously changing these to Group, so members can add photos. How do you see the owner of a Personal album, after entering Edit Album?
I would like to be able to see the settings without entering each album, in a list format. Regards John Russell |
Don Grass
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