Hiding a group from public view
Private Groups are a great way to store photos online that are for your use only. Only you, the owner, can view items designated as Private. You have to login to the Zenfolio Web site for the system to recognize you and to show your Private items.
Access settings can be "inherited" by items contained inside. For example, if you make a group Private, and all the photographs inside the group have an access setting set to Same as a containing item, then all of these photographs will automatically become Private as well. This is a convenient way of applying the same setting to a large number of items.
A quick way to hide all the photos that have an access setting set to Same as a containing item is to make your Home Page private.
To make a Group Private:
- Click to select the item you would like to apply access control settings to. Details about the item will be loaded into the Toolbox on the right side.
- Select Edit in the Access Control section of the Toolbox. A popup window will open.
- Uncheck the default setting box titled Same as Containing Group
- Choose the Access tab
- Check Private - open to owner only option and click Save for the new settings to take effect immediately.
Alternatively, if the containing item is Private as well, you may check Same as containing item to have it inherit the setting. This will allow you in the future to change settings globally and have them propagate to all the items inside.
The above steps can be applied to multiple selected items as one operation.
Note: Private Groups can contain Public galleries so that they will be hidden from view.
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