Gallery access issue

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Greg Collins Posted: Wed, Aug 16 2006 7:15 PM

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Using CS v2.1

I have an image gallery that feeds images to the blog posts. I want to be able to set this gallery as inaccessibe to the Everyone role because I don't care for them to see that gallery as such. Yet, if I turn off view permissions, then the users cannot see the images as part of the blogs.

This is understandable behavior--but it fails to accomplish what I want to do. I need to be able to hide the gallery from the users, yet still have them be able to see the images when displayed in the blog entries. In other words, I want the ability to grant view permissions to the images in the gallery, but not the gallery itself.

Does this make sense?

How can I accomplish this, and if not, will you please add this as a feature to the next release?

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jmaver replied on Wed, Aug 16 2006 11:36 PM

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I have been trying to get this to work as well for the past few hours, both with the File and Photo galleries and with the default and FreeTextBoxWrapper. If you disable everyone permission, then the content selectors can't find the galleries either to insert them in the first place.

I can't find a better solution so far than just ftping the picture to a particular folder and adding a file reference to that in the post. BlogJet will do this automatically, but I would like to get it to work with the web editor and the galleries.
 

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DanBartels replied on Fri, Aug 18 2006 4:33 PM

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You can edit the CommunityServer.Config file, and set enableDirectLinks = true for the <AttachmentSettings> and <CacheSettings>...

This forces CS to serve up links directly to the image files and not use the HTTP handler....  This is much easier on IIS, and/but completey bypasses CS Security on the images

Dan