Thanks for the quick response. As it happens, I already had that plugin enabled, but I still didn't see any control/link that would allow my non-admin user to edit titles/descriptions. However, I took a closer look at the link you posted for the 'Admin Tools' plugin, and I think figured out what I need to do. But it involves editing the database directly, so my next question is whether there's a less hacky way to what I want.

I am migrating an old menalto gallery version 1 to piwigo. I've been populating my galleries directory with sub-directories and photos and then using 'Administration > Tools > Synchronize' as the webmaster to populate my database. I have not been uploading photos as the non-admin user. But I just did that with a test photo and now I see the Edit and Delete links at the top of the page for that photo. Seems that the ability to edit or delete a photo is determined by the user id stored in the added_by column of the piwigo_images table. I confirmed this by manually changing the field for one of the photos I did not upload, and now I can edit title/description as the non-admin user.

I am comfortable using phpmyadmin to change so-called ownership of images by changing the added_by column to point to the user id I want to give permission to edit titles/descriptions. But that's not something most people would be comfortable with, plus I wonder if you really want to encourage folks to hack the database this way. And it means only one non-admin user can do such editing. Is hacking the database the way to get what I want?

Also I haven't created any groups yet. Is it possible for images to be owned by a group so more than one user can edit them?

No, i'm not. That Edit button does NOT show up unless the added_by column is set to the user id of the non-admin user. Because that user did NOT upload the photos, but was actually added by the webmaster by virtue of the syncronize option only available to webmasters and admins, that Edit only shows up for my webmaster user. I got it to show up by directly manipulating the database and changing the added_by column to the non-admin user's id.

Please check for yourself. Create another user, give them access to an existing album, public or private, and you will see they don't have the edit button.

So my questions remain:

Is there any other way to change ownership of photos other than hacknig the databaser?

Is ther any way to give a group ownership of photos so more than one non-admin user can edit them?

I checked. It works for me and I didn't hack anything. Check your options.

Last edited by executive (2018-04-11 23:17:26)

OK. I thought it was obvious but here you go.

there are plugins for that too

http://piwigo.org/ext/extension_view.php?eid=692
http://piwigo.org/ext/extension_view.php?eid=724
http://piwigo.org/ext/extension_view.php?eid=723

Last edited by executive (2018-04-13 01:20:27)