Re: Sharing

Chris,

Yep, that's the expected behaviour.

I think this aspect of the new sharing model deserves some explanation.

In the "old" sharing model (before 3.5), Pixory only ever
authenticated one user-- the "composer". "Viewers" were never
authenticated, so as far as Pixory was concerned, all viewers were the
same, that is anonymous. There was a page called "public catalog",
reachable at urls: <hostname>:port, or <hostname>:port/pixory, or
<hostname>:port/pixory/pxapplication, or misstypes of those. This
"public catalog" page always displayed all albums that had been marked
as public, regardless of who the user/viewer was.

In the new sharing model, there is no longer a "public catalog"-- I
now refer to that page as the "viewer home". It's not a public catalog
any more because it can now displays more than just public albums. I
call it the "viewer home" because the set of albums it displays is
tailored for each viewer.

Before a viewer has authenticated, she is anonymous, so the only
albums that Pixory will display for her on the viewer home are the
public albums, because those are the only albums that joe public
(anonymous user) is entitled to see. Once the user has authenticated,
the "viewer home" will display all albums that user is entitled to
see: all albums that you have explicitly shared with that user
(contact) via the "share with listed contacts" mode, _and_ all public
albums. When testing this stuff out, switching between different
viewers is a little tricky right now, because there is no logout
button for viewers (rectified in next release), so you have to
shutdown the browser or erase cookies if you want the application to
forget that you are logged in as a viewer.

The composer (as the owner) is entitled to see all albums, so when you
visit the "viewer home" page logged in as the composer, you will see
all albums.

Also, for performance reasons, the set of albums to be displayed on
the "viewer home" page is calculated once at the beginning of a user
session, and is then fixed over the lifetime of that session. This
means that if you change the sharing for a particular user while that
user is logged in, they will not see the changes reflected on the
"viewer home" until they log out and log back in.

I hope this helps ;)

regards,

joe


--- In [email protected], "Chris" <brandalob@y...> wrote:
> Joe
> 
> Follow up to last message - the new sharing system is working - it 
> does not display correctly on the local 192.168.0.2:8081/ unless one 
> logs out and re-logs in as a named person other than oneself!
> 
> Chris



 

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