I've installed this module along with folksonomy to allow users to upload images into semi-personal image galleries, as the new image module doesn't support them (which has left me with a load of orphaned images).

The module work okay, but seems to lack some vital features: How do I, as the admin, delete albums? Can users add images to existing albums? Can albums be renamed?

I appreciate the work that's gone into this, especially the OG integration, but without basic management it's quite useless...

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ixis.dylan’s picture

ixis.dylan commented
Title: Cannot delete, manage, or add to albums. » Album management
Category: bug » feature
Priority: Critical » Normal

I think I was too quick to jump in with a bug report here. It's possible to add more files to an album by creating another album with the same name as an existing one, then uploading the files into it.

Consider this a feature request instead. I'd like to see some more album controls for both admins and users, as this module will be an excellent replacement for personal image galleries.

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rangermeier commented

i think it would also be great, if you have the option to assign images to a vocabulary or a term (e.g. the same you use when uploading with image.module).
however i'm unsure if this would conflict with the idea of using tags?
but more important at the moment is probably the controls leafish_dylan was talking about.

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jasonwhat commented

I second that. It is important that users can manage their albums and add more pictures. There isn't much point in a "group album" if only one group member can add pictures, and only once at that. Adding another album with the same name is a work around, but not an acceptable one to present to users.

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moshe weitzman commented

album.module has to be re-written or thrown out and restarted considering new folksonomy capability in HEAD and the fact that image.module does galleries.

note that OG's albums are not provided by album.module at all. The share the same infrastructure (forlksonomy.module) and thats it.

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sami_k commented

How can users on your site use OG or the image galleries to maintain their personal image galleries Moshe?

debwire’s picture

debwire commented
Version: master » 4.6.x-1.x-dev
Component: Code » User interface

Additional features that would be ideal for this module is the ability to set album size limits (like 5mb per user) and a "per image" size limit (like 40k -- and not just in mb). This is a show stopper because users can virtually upload whatever they want, whatever size they want, which would quickly consume all available service space alotted to the site.

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grohk commented
Version: 4.6.x-1.x-dev » master
Component: User interface » Code

Re: #6. This module uses the file upload restrictions that are in place per user role. See /admin/settings/upload. Is that what you mean?

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debwire commented

Re #7: If it uses the upload module to set limits on the photo sizes, then I guess the upload module doesn't work very well or at least doesn't work very well when I try to set it to a KB limit versus a MB limit. Because it requires we enter a value in MB, I've entered something like .1 to get around the large size files but a user can still upload files much larger than that, including the original file (which could be 1MB, for example), the 320x320 size I've set for my site, then the thumbnail. That image is then taking up somewhere around 1.3 to 1.5MB, which would cause users to quickly consume all available server space with only a few uploads. It would be great if the album module worked around this problem by providing admins with the ability to truly restrict file sizes to small size files.