That's quite easy. If I understood it correctly, you don't need the different user groups. Try this:
- Create the three users
- Set the category permissions so that registered user (or which group(s) your users belong to) can create albums in it
- Create each album with each user
- Revoke the permissions from the category
- Try to uploads files with each user
Thanks again, Αndré. But, I'm not quite sure what you're telling me to do. Maybe if I tell you what I've done:
I've created three groups - Geocachers, Bikers, and Kayakers.
I've created three users - Geocachers, Bikers, and Kayakers, and assigned each user to their respective group.
I created one category, and in that category I have four albums - General, Geocachers, Bikers, and Kayakers. I started out with four categories with one album in each, but couldn't get that to work either.
I want anyone (Guests or logged in users) to be able to view all categories and albums at all times.
I want to give a username and password to each of the three users, so multiple people can log in under each name. Any Biker can log in under the Bikers user account, for example.
When logged in under any of the three usernames, I want that user to be able to view any of the albums, but be able to upload files only to the respective album. E.G. the 'Bikers' user can view everything, but can only upload files to the Bikers album, etc.
I don't want anyone to be able to edit or delete files, because there will be multiple people logging in under each user name. Only upload ability.
I've already modified the menu system so that Guests only have Login or Search options, and the user menu so they only have Upload, Logout, and Search options.
When someone logs in using one of the three user names, I want them to be able to view all four albums, but when Uploading a file I want them to be able to only see the respective album available - Bikers album for the Bikers user, Geocachers album for the Geocachers user, and Kayakers album for the Kayakers user.
If going back to four categories for each of the four albums will do that for me I'd be glad to switch back (rather than one category with four albums), but I couldn't get it to work correctly that way either. Maybe it just can't be done in Coppermine?