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Manage a "Phoca" image gallery

Objective:

Log into the "Admin" panel (if nessesary)

  1. Log into Joomla as an administrator by going to http://yourschool.eq.edu.au/wcms/administrator

    or by clicking on the Administrator link on the "main Menu"

Create new gallery Category to display images

  1. Open Components >> Phoca Gallery >> Categories

  2. Click the Category to be managed - in this case "Student Artwork"

Access level:

  1. Set to "Registered"
    • To restrict viewing to logged in MIS users (with a valid MIS login to your school)
  2. Set to "Special"
    • To restrict view to registered users who've had their account escalated to a "special" permission (author, editor or manager) via "user Manager"

Upload and Add User Rights:

  1. Set to "All Registered Users"
    • Anyone logged in can upload images but they won't go live until they have been "published" by someone with permissions in the next group.
  2. Set to "username"
    • Where "username" is the name of a person who can upload to this folder (hold down the ctl key to select multiple users.)

Delete and Publish User Rights:

  1. Set to "Administrator"
    • Only top level Administrators can delete or approve to publish items uploaded from persons in the "Upload and Users Rights:" group above
    • All Administrators should be able to upload to these Category folders by default.
  2. Set to "username"
    • Where "username" is the name of a person who can delete or publish images in this folder (hold down the ctl key to select multiple users.)

"Student Artwork" Category set to:

  1. Access Level: = Registered
    • only logged in users will see the folder / images
  2. Upload and Add User Rights: = All Registered Users
    • can now upload images to this folder
  3. Delete and Publish User Rights: = Sam Tester
    • only I can delete or publish new images in the Category

Description box

Enter a description which will be displayed at the top of the category when it is opened (it will appear above the images)

When finished

  1. Click "Save" button (top-right) to set the permissions on the Category
  2. Select the next Category to update as required.

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