On J! Extensions RSGallery2 has 3 comments this year. In Owner's reply to 2012-3-28 post he said "You can indeed set it up so that each user can edit all images and galleries, but you can also set it up that only specific usergroups can edit all images and galleries or that users can edit only their own images and galleries."

In comment from 2012-6-2, a few days ago, the user says: "Permissions can be set so that only particular user groups can edit all images or so that users can only edit their own images." But apparently never tried to.

In the forum, on 2012-5-16, Dev. Team Sr. Member says: "Exactly what you want to achieve, user only allowed to create/edit own galleries/items, is not possible with RSGallery2 3.1.0, however, it will be available in a next version."  This is closer to what I've experienced, so I'll assume I'm not entirely crazy or stupid because I couldn't make it work. 

If I give a member power under My Galleries only to Create, they can create categories and add images, but then have to wait for me to publish each category and item. I want members to self-publish and I'll deal with any inappropriate issues if they arise.

Let me start over. I'm building a substantial networking site on J! 2.5.3 and RSGallery2 3.1.0 (http://www.spvccc.org and to see from a member POV, login as tester, password testing). I started out with JoomGallery, did extensive customizing, all was working, then it started failing to display detail or original images. Others have hit this impasse and the only suggestion offered is to find, by turning one after the other off, some other component's plug-in that's causing it and remove it (or presumably stop using JoomGallery which is what I'm doing). RSGallery2 looked good, I tried it, it was not only good but had much improved functionality, look and feel, so I like it better with one exception.  My impression is that ACL functionality is new to RSGallery2 and not really there yet. But since "it will be available in a next version," I may be able to wait for it since my site is just getting functional and has few members yet. In hope of getting what I need, let's talk ACL in terms of what I and at least some others need.

From Options I can set component permissions.  For registered members I allow Create, Rate, and Comment (a jcomments plug-in would be nice), but if I allow Edit Own, then when a member goes to My Galleries, all categories and images are seen with edit icon on (I've started out with 7 categories and over 20 subcategories, one of which is "Member Galleries"). As others may have suggested, under 'My Galleries' should go only my, the member's, categories and images (only users with permission to edit/delete all should also see all).

With Edit Own allowed, the member sees the edit icon on for all images whether they created them or not. If they click on any of them, including ones they did create, they get a "You are not authorized to view this resource."

For members, all site categories and images should not appear in My Galleries (maybe I create 57 categories with 999 images that members can upload to, but not edit or delete or unpublish).  So member at first should see no items/categories and create a category (preferably limited to the category I create called "Member Galleries"), then upload to it. And have permission to publish/unpublish (default being auto publish), edit (own galleries/images), and delete own. Again I want members to upload/publish images to all my site galleries as well as create their own under categories but only within Member Galleries.

If I give members only a global Create permission, they don't see any icons turned on in My Galleries, but apart from uploading and creating categories, they can't publish them, meaning I have to at some point.  If I limit members to Member Galleries by giving that gallery permissions to allow members to edit and edit own, they can edit theirs and every other members categories and images.

The best I can do at present is just allow the global Create permission, try to tell members that they won't see any results, and manually publish each new category and image (all, perhaps many). When the site becomes active, that would be unacceptable. For a while I'll get by, hopefully until a new version comes out.

Although I'm unable to work due to being hit by a truck last year, meaning I have free time, and have been working on the site for over four months, I realize that well over 90% of the functionality of the site is due to the work of others. If my site becomes popular, donations may come in. I'm using open source stuff now which allows me to create the functionality needed, since I have no income (yet). If money starts coming in, I feel obligated to share. If I'm using RSGallery2 when money comes, I'll send some as appropriate for sure.

One ASAP suggestion would be to update Owner reply to the J! Extensions comments so that "user only allowed to create/edit own galleries/items, is not possible with RSGallery2 3.1.0" is better known.

Another issue is formatting within My Galleries. Best to just take a look at my site. What may be intended as a horizontal menu linking to subheadings, instead duplicates the menu option at each subheading.  Take a look, http://www.spvccc.org login tester, password testing.

Looking at yesterdays nightly build. I can now give members edit/publish/delete privileges. Sweet. Since they can't see any but their own galleries/images, they can't do harm.  I don't have time this morning for complete testing, have to go soon, but I'll mention a few things for tonight's build. When I log in as super admin I can't see member galleries or images, which means even I can't make them go away if needed without going into MYSQL.  The defaults for various permission levels need to be updated. But when I manually updated Admin level I, being Super User who already has all permissions, I still can't see/edit/delete/unpublish member galleries. So much closer, thanks. Almost there. Still the 'My galleries' has minor formatting issues, but looking good.

I like to say that I'm a strong supporter of open source everything. My website will become cloneable and be open source. The real meaning of 'strong' is that I realize that even as I add more and more months of work on the site, most of its functionality will be due to the hard and gifted work of others. I have a long list, and when some donation money comes in, I realize I am honor bound to forward their 90+% share.

Have fun.

Shall we continue this conversation about SVN 1080 (found at http://www.rsgallery2.nl/nightly_builds_rsgallery2_joomla_1.61.72.5/what_will_be_new_next_version_posting_guidelines_download_16673.msg43280.html#msg43280) or would you like me to spend some time on addressing your first post?

In SVN1080 there is also the possibility to give users permissions to edit, delete, (un)publish (= edit state) only their own items/galleries in the frontend My Galleries. See attached image of the component permissions (taken from Nightly Build SVN1080).

And SVN1080 has the option to view only images/galleries the user owns from the frontend My Galleries (see attached image).

When I log in as super admin I can't see member galleries or images, which means even I can't make them go away if needed without going into MYSQL.

A Super User is allowed to do everything. I just created a new Super User who is only a member of the User Group "Super Users" (as is available with Joomla's Sample data) to double check that. However, depending on your settings
- Show only items owned by the logged in user in My Galleries    
- Show only galleries owned by the logged in user in My Galleries
the Super User will onlwy see images/galleries (s)he owns, or all images/galleries.

In the Backend the Super User will always see eveything, so that's where you want to do the things you need to do as an admin.

Of course, it's possible to code things in such a way that the
- Show only items owned by the logged in user in My Galleries    
- Show only galleries owned by the logged in user in My Galleries
are always taken as a "No" for Super Users, but I don't see any advantages for that. Reason: Super Users can do anything in the Backend, why would they want to do that in the Frontend. But if you have other/better reasons... a good discussions with different points of view is always nice.

The defaults for various permission levels need to be updated.

What do you mean by that?
As far as I know it's not possible to set default permission on installation. For good reasons: one never knows which permissions and user groups a site owner may have! So indeed, after installation the site admin needs to set permissions...
I've seen discussions/questions on the Joomla! General Development list (http://groups.google.com/group/joomla-dev-general) about this. That's the source from where I understand that it's not possible and permissions should not be automatically set during installation but only by the site admin after installation.

Still the 'My galleries' has minor formatting issues, but looking good.

Can you point that out with a screenshot and the Joomla default template?

I think that Open Source is at its best when there is an active community willing to test things and report issues, test fixes and give constructive feedback. Sure, a bit of money is nice (to run the website), but in the end a day will always have 24 hours and a week will always have 7 days, so mostly "time" is the biggest constraint.

Final note: when you try one of these Nightly Builds, please give the SVN number of the one you tried. E.g. SVN1080 is currently the latest, and "yesterday's Nightly Build" could be 1080 or 1079 and even 1078 (depending on time zone? ;-))

And the true final note: your typo is fixed. Thanks for mentioning that.

Still on 1080.
Registered permissions are now set to allow Create Own, Delete Own, Edit Own, Edit State Own, Vote, and Comment.  Works as should with one tiny issue. Under Images and Image upload, "Default state for uploaded images (for users with Edit State permission)" is set to Published. Registered does not have Edit State permission so their uploads are unpublished, but they do have Edit State Own permission, and their creations should publish too.  But I suppose I could give them Edit State too.

In my Member Galleries are three sub-galleries and three test photos--two published and one published but in an unpublished gallery, but from View Galleries it sometimes uses the unpublished gallery's photo's thumbnail. Under 'Member Galleries' Size: is given as 3 images. That the count includes the published photo that is in an unpublished gallery could cause someone to look for 3 but find only 2 photos. In Subgalleries all three published galleries are listed but all say (0) images are in them even though when I click on the one I know has images, it says correctly under Slideshow that there are 2 images but then 'Results 1 - 1 of 1 No images in gallery'. The Slideshow shows both images in the gallery. To get slideshow to work at all I had to change default to 'slideshowone'.  'Slideshow_parth' comes up with a black screen and goes into a terminal 'loading...' state.

One published photo is a black and white transparent PNG drawing. What was transparent is now black, and the black drawing is white. Looks good in PhotoShop, but IrfranView also switches the colors so don't worry about it. Real people will use JPG or figure it out.

I tried Maintenance, Consolidate Database, and two images came up, the PNG and one I had previously deleted that showed with half the image missing in the thumbnail. When I clicked delete from the database I got a 'fatal' error which I didn't write down. When I tried Consolidate Database again, the deleted image was gone, leaving only the PNG. Screen shot below. Looks like original image missing. Recreated it. Said successful, but on again Consolidating, same message came up.

Tried to Regenerate, picked gallery containing PNG, got error: 'Could not create display image for ig3%201.png (no image size information found)'. I'll assume that this image is just bad, incompatible, and needs to be deleted, but just unpublished it; a JPG added, the subgallery still says (0) images, all other galleries show correct number of images within subgalleries.

Tried to Consolidate Database. The PNG shows up, tried to delete, got error message again: Fatal error: Class 'rsgImagesItem' not found in /home/alysiono/sites/spvccc.org/administrator/components/com_rsgallery2/includes/img.utils.php on line 416

Tried to Consolidate, tried to delete from database, same error as above. Went back to Items and deleted the unpublished PNG. Consolidate now says all good.

When I go to My Galleries the breadcrumbs remain 'Home Page  View SPV Galleries' instead of a preferred 'Home Page  View SPV Galleries  My Galleries'. Currently a user would have to click 'Home Page' then go back to 'View Galleries' or know that the browser back button could be used, but I'm trying to avoid making the user use the browser back button for navigation.  I tend to mention minor stuff for what it's worth to you, as always, just hoping to be helpful.

Enough for now, will play later.

Problems 3.1 Published image from unpublished gallery shows as thumb for parent gallery and (3.2) the image from the unpublished gallery is counted in the image count are both solved in SVN1082:
http://www.rsgallery2.nl/nightly_builds_rsgallery2_joomla_1.61.72.5/what_will_be_new_next_version_posting_guidelines_download_16673.msg43997.html#msg43997

(Updated the list in this post: http://www.rsgallery2.nl/rsgallery2_3.x_bugs_problems/member_permissions_allow_createedit_own_galleriesitems_issues_16835.msg43996.html#msg43996)

2. While setting images/galleries to publish for both 'Edit State' and 'Edit State Own' works for me, I'd probably add a separate line for 'Edit State Own' just in case someone does want a choice.

3. I prefer to create a top gallery with various child galleries and publish only in the child galleries, so I want total items in top galleries.

4. My Slideshow Parth issue is similar to my unsolved issue with JoomGallery where a similar black screen showed up whenever I tried to view detail or original images, and as the issue was blamed on some unknown plugin, I said goodbye. A week before JoomGallery was working. After turning off all plugins recently added with no solution, I couldn't see solving it myself. I'll guess that whatever messed up JoomGallery is messing up Slideshow Parth, so probably not easy to reproduce. And testing showed that all slideshows fail. Switching back to Slideshowone, the gallery with 15 images worked, but when I tried one with only 2 images, slideshow showed only the first item and control buttons did not respond. I added a third image and slideshow worked, so either make work with 2 or don't offer Slideshow if less than three images.

Attached is Slideshow Parth output that never ends.

Later

5. I'll just note in my site documentation not to upload transparent gifs or pngs, which probably no one but me would try.

6. Same error as in 9.

7. b is ok, in documentation mention a.

Now for something new. The attached screen shot shows a vertical Start...End menu. Think it should, by default, be horizontal, with maybe an option for vertical. That's all for now, thank you for your attention. Likely more later.

Back to 1. Issue may be in Add Image. The size came up wider than the allowed space. Grabbing the lower right corner, I could make the box larger but not smaller. The edit box (JCE) wants to use allowed width but extends into the right column, apparently not allowing for the space created by the word 'Description'. Maybe put 'Description' first, then the edit box or make editor think smaller space. Screenshot attached.