Sharing Part of a Library

[flakie 11]

I have a photo library. Arranged in folders, named by date and some date/event.

e.g. 2019-02  and 2019-02-holiday

I want to give limited access to the library, just a few of the folders to another Emby user (same server).

I do not want to give them full access to the photos library.

 

e.g. just access to 2019-02 but not 2019-02-holiday

 

I am assuming to do this I have to create a second photos library and give them access to it.

Duplicating/copying the folders I want to give them access to, into the second photos library.

 

Is there a way to do this in Emby without duplicating the folders?

Maybe with a link of some sort?

 

If not its not a problem, I will just copy the required folders to the new library.

 

Cheers.

[ebr 16187]

Hi.  Have you explored the "Access" tab of the User management area in the Dashboard?

 

New Folder-based Access Control

 

Now, take particular care in how you setup the library for this as each folder you want to control will need to be defined to the library and, thus, none of them can be sub-folders of another.

[Luke 42083]

Hi, yes as Ebr said, user access control as well as parental control features are all tools that are at your disposal here to control content visibility.

[flakie 11]

Hi.  Have you explored the "Access" tab of the User management area in the Dashboard?

 

New Folder-based Access Control

 

Now, take particular care in how you setup the library for this as each folder you want to control will need to be defined to the library and, thus, none of them can be sub-folders of another.

 

Fantastic. Missed this completely. So I can create a new photos library and instead of adding the top-level folder i can choose the sub-folders I want to add.

Cheers, I owe you one

[flakie 11]

Thanks for this guys. Works much better and easier than I could have hoped for

[flakie 11]

One small issue I just discovered.

 

If I add a new folder to the library it is automatically giving  all users, that already have access to at least one folder, access to the new folder.

 

This is not my desired behaviour. I can go in and remove that access for each individual user but would prefer not to need to do so (its easy at the moment as only have a few users setup but have many more family members to add soon).

 

I have searched high and low for a method to automatically stop this behaviour but not found it yet.

 

Is it possible? If not I will just carry on manually removing access.

[Spaceboy 2573]

One small issue I just discovered.

 

If I add a new folder to the library it is automatically giving all users, that already have access to at least one folder, access to the new folder.

 

This is not my desired behaviour. I can go in and remove that access for each individual user but would prefer not to need to do so (its easy at the moment as only have a few users setup but have many more family members to add soon).

 

I have searched high and low for a method to automatically stop this behaviour but not found it yet.

 

Is it possible? If not I will just carry on manually removing access.

Agreed, it would be my expectation that if you add a new folder to a library it would require positive confirmation from the admin that the new folder should be available to users that have access to the library, ie it should not be granted by default

[ebr 16187]

Agreed, it would be my expectation that if you add a new folder to a library it would require positive confirmation from the admin that the new folder should be available to users that have access to the library, ie it should not be granted by default

 

I think that is only because you are coming from the perspective of restricting access.  I think a lot of people would be in here telling us they added a new folder to a library but it isn't showing up if we forced the positive condition...

[Spaceboy 2573]

I think that is only because you are coming from the perspective of restricting access. I think a lot of people would be in here telling us they added a new folder to a library but it isn't showing up if we forced the positive condition...

well, no because this could be done as part of adding the new folder either by a function or just a prompt to review access.

 

But also I’m actually surprised that you would promote anything these days that doesn’t take the security/ access restricted approach. Yes you might have the odd complaint about things not showing up as expected, although see above, far better that than the other way. We’ve discussed this before and I believe we both use this function to enable adults to see all folders but younger users to only see some. If I were to add a further folder of movies not for kids I would be very disappointed if they showed up in my younger users accounts without warning

 

I think you have this the wrong way around

[ebr 16187]

Again, I think that is just because of your perspective and it is valid.

 

However, I clearly remember a time when we used to take the approach of forcing you to allow access and we did get lots of reports of "I added a folder and it doesn't show up" because people weren't thinking from that same perspective.

 

Perhaps it could be conditional - IOW if you allow access to all libraries then we allow by default.  Otherwise, we restrict by default.  Of course, I am a bit wary of that still causing problems but maybe it is something we could try.

[Spaceboy 2573]

Again, I think that is just because of your perspective and it is valid.

 

However, I clearly remember a time when we used to take the approach of forcing you to allow access and we did get lots of reports of "I added a folder and it doesn't show up" because people weren't thinking from that same perspective.

 

Perhaps it could be conditional - IOW if you allow access to all libraries then we allow by default. Otherwise, we restrict by default. Of course, I am a bit wary of that still causing problems but maybe it is something we could try.

that would definitely be better

[Luke 42083]

Perhaps it could be conditional - IOW if you allow access to all libraries then we allow by default.  Otherwise, we restrict by default.  Of course, I am a bit wary of that still causing problems but maybe it is something we could try.

 

Yes this is the way it works now.

[flakie 11]

For me I like the way regular libraries (not the New Folder-based Access Control) work. If someone has access to a library then they should automatically have access to any new content added to the library. Though I can see why others might prefer it different.
 

For the new *New Folder-based Access Control* libraries I would like to be able to add a new folder and no-one get access to it automatically.

Though, if they already had full access to *all* the existing folders then them automatically getting access to any new folder would work for me too (as the majority of the time I would probably grant them access anyway).

For now I will just have to remember to log into Emby and remove access for those users who i don't want to have seeing any new folder/content.

 

Would be great if the way ebr has proposed it could be implemented.

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[flakie 11]

Perhaps it could be conditional - IOW if you allow access to all libraries then we allow by default.  Otherwise, we restrict by default.  Of course, I am a bit wary of that still causing problems but maybe it is something we could try.

 

Maybe by default you could keep the behaviour as it is now and add a toggle to turn on the new behaviour?

[Spaceboy 2573]

Yes this is the way it works now.

this is incorrect