Need some guidance on sharing images and albums with users

[doobes]

Greetings,

I've stood Immich up in my local server, and interface with the world via Traefik and Cloudshare. All that works just fine.

I want this to be the replacement to Google Photos for sharing with my friends and family. At present, I've got some 20k images in the database.

Only, I can't figure out how to give people access.

I've made user accounts. They can't see any of my images. I've made them partners, they can't see my images. They can see my images through sharing -> Partners. That's not what I want. I want to give credentialed users access to both the photos and albums without having to tag each and every image/album.

I've constructed some 750 albums with Salvoxia's amazing too to replicate the Google Albums, but as best I can tell I have to give access to each individual album to each user.... OMG, that's absurd.

Unless I can figure out a way around this, it's useless to me.

Thank you

[Salvoxia]

In my oppinion, sharing is an area where Immich still has room for improvement.

AFAIK your only option is to share albums with other users. You cannot share photos that are not in an album with a user, there is only creating the public sharing link.

If there is a rule that determines which albums you want to share with whom, the script might still help you. You can specify a list of users to share created albums with. So if you can define path filters (maybe in combination with ignore filters), you can use the script to bulk share albums with other users. If you have different groups of users you want to share different sets of albums with, you'll have to redefine the path filters and the share list and run again.
If you are using the script as a container in your Immich stack, you'll have to spin up multiple instances of the container with different settings.
Refer to the README section Automatic Album Sharing.

Let me know if there is some way I can assist.

[doobes]

Thank you,

I'm going to investigate other platforms.

cheers

[Salvoxia]

Sad to hear that, but I understand.
Out of curiosity: How would you expect such functionality to work in Immich?
For automatic sharing there has to be some rule.
Or would you expect to be bale to select a set of album and share that set with a list of selected users? That would still require manual action whenever a new album is added.

[doobes]

I don't mind manual action, if I can do more than one entity at a time. These systems are "supposedly"designed for many photos, albums etc. The admin need the granuarity to select more than one thing at a time to assign things to.

An ideal solution would be to have groups, that could be assigned to images/albums in large selections.