album-management.md

Album management

1. Differences between albums and collections

Album

An album contains one or more images. You can set the permissions for each album in a different way.

Collections

Collections are like a container or folder for one or more albums. Permissions set for a collection are not valid for the contained albums.
A collection should not have images, as they will be nowhere displayed.
you can recognize a collection on the displayed number of albums in it:

2. Overview

On the album management page you get an overview about all albums and collections

On the right side you will see the area for sorting albums/collections.

3. Sorting albums

You can easily sort them by drag&drop.
With a click on "+" you can expand a collection, with "-" reduce it.
You can create a nested tree up to as many levels you want.

3. Additional buttons

Depending on your permissions (see Permissions) you will see addtional buttons like

• "Show album" (see Displaying albums)
• "Show images index (see Image index)
• "Image management (see Image management)
• "Upload images (see Uploading images)
• "Edit album" (see Create new album)
• "Edit album image" (see Album image)
• "Delete"
• "Download album"