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<h2>Edit album</h2>

<h3>Informations</h3>

<ul>

  <li><strong>name</strong>: rename the album (a virtual rename in case 
  of a physical album).</li>

  <li><strong>description</strong>: short text giving a general idea of the content,
  this text will be displayed at the bottom of the thumbnails page.</li>

</ul>

<h3>Move</h3>

<p>If the album is virtual, you can move it. Moving a album means
changing its parent album.</p>

<h3>Options</h3>

<ul>

  <li><strong>Access type</strong>: Permissions management. If you make a
  album private, all its child albums becomes private. If you make a
  album public, all its parent albums becomes public.</li>

  <li><strong>Lock</strong>: The album and its sub-albums will
  be temporary disabled for maintenance.</li>

  <li><strong>Comments</strong>: Authorize users to comment photos of this
  album.</li>

</ul>

<p>You can also manage these options on the "Properties"
management screen (screens <span
class="pwgScreen">Comments</span>, <span class="pwgScreen">Lock</span>,
<span class="pwgScreen">Public/Private</span>, <span
class="pwgScreen">Representative</span> available from <span
class="pwgScreen">Administration &raquo; Albums &raquo; Properties</span>).</p>

<h3>Sort order</h3>

<p>Use the default images sort order.</p>

<p>Indicate whether this sort order will apply to subalbums also.</p>

<p>Select specific sorting criteria to be used with this album.</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Creation date</strong>: Photo shooting date</li>
<li><strong>Post date</strong>: Synchronization date</li>
<li><strong>Average rate (*)</strong>: Average rate could be changed by the visitor rating</li>
<li><strong>Most visited (*)</strong>: The current visit might change the most visited order</li>
<li><strong>File name</strong>: Name given in information field</li>
<li><strong>Id</strong>: Internal Id (recent categories have an higher id than previous ones.</li>

</ul>
<p><strong>(*)</strong>Warning: Be sure to test these sort orders by yourself as they can give unexpected results.</p>


<h3>Representant</h3>

<p>The album representative is the thumbnail displayed on the main page (<span class="pwgScreen">category.php</span>) to represent
the album when
it contains only sub-albums and no direct photo (just as the root album).</p>
photo of a album :</p>

<ul>

  <li><span class="pwgScreen">Photo page</span>: one of the action buttons let you set the current photo as the representative for the
  displayed album. This button is available only for administrators.</li>

  <li><span class="pwgScreen">Modify informations about a photo</span> in
  administration. This screen can be reached from <span
  class="pwgScreen">picture.php</span> or <span class="pwgScreen">Batch
  management</span> in <em>unit mode</em>. See the help of this screen for
  details.</li>

  <li><span class="pwgScreen">Administration &raquo; Albums &raquo; Properties,
  Representative</span>. See the help of this screen for details.</li>

  <li><span class="pwgScreen">Edit album</span> (the present screen).</li>

</ul>

<p>The choice of a representative depends on the 
<code>allow_random_representative</code> configuration parameter (see <span
class="filename">include/config_default.inc.php</span>).</p>

<p>In default mode (<code>allow_random_representative</code> set to false),
each album containing at least one element is represented by a fixed
element. Once set (at album creation), the representative changes only
when an administrator ask for it. If the representative is not appropriate,
you can ask to <strong>Find a new representant by random</strong>.</p>

<p>If the <code>allow_random_representative</code> configuration parameter is
set to true, a category containing photos may have no fixed
representant. Just use <strong>Delete representant</strong> button.</p>

<p>If the album contains only sub-albums and no photo, it can nonetheless be represented by any element thanks to <span class="pwgScreen">Modify
informations about a photo</span> screen. The only option on the current screen
is the <strong>Delete representant</strong> button.</p>

<h3>Link all album photos to a new album</h3>

<ul>

<li><strong>Virtual album name</strong>: Name of the new album to be created, 
all photos of the current category will be linked to the new one.</li>

<li><strong>Parent album</strong>: Where the new album will be, 
leave empty to create it at root.</li>

</ul>

<h3>Link all album photos to existing albums</h3>

<ul>

<li><strong>Albums</strong>: Choose the destination album.</li>

</ul>

<h3>Send an information email to group members</h3>

<ul>

<li><strong>Group</strong>: recipients group</li>

<li><strong>Mail content</strong>: Free text to send to them.</li>

</ul>