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If the client has only one album assigned to them they will be taken directly to that album. If you've assigned more than one album to the client, they'll be taken to a page where they can choose the album they want to work on.
Try creating another album, assign it to the same client so now the client has two albums.
Log out of Backlight and log into the client area (/backlight/client-response)

mikkelmand wrote:

3. We want our customers (not visitors, but those that we have done an assignment for) to be able to visit the customer zone to do selects and send selects to us. We would like them to login directly at http://customerzone.se instead of http://customerzone.se/backlight.

You can well-enough accomplish this by placing a redirect index.php file in your root, at http://customerzone.se. This file should contain the following:

<?php header('Location: http://customerzone.se/backlight/client-response/'); ?>

3. We want our customers (not visitors, but those that we have done an assignment for) to be able to visit the customer zone to do selects and send selects to us. We would like them to login directly at http://customerzone.se instead of http://customerzone.se/backlight.

The URL to client login must be customerzone.se/backlight/client-response/
You could give your clients that url or you could create an index page at customerzone.se and add either a text link or a button that takes the client to the login page.
Or, I suppose you could use a redirect on customerzone.se that goes to customerzone.se/backlight/client-response/

What if I dropped the containings of the backlight folder directly under root (http://customerzone.se) and link to http://customerzone.se/client-response. Will that not work?

4. When arriving at customer zone customer should find an almost naked login page (apart from our logo and login fields) where they login with a username/password that is unique to that customer (the company). The login takes the customer to a page with thumbnail/title/description of all individual assignments we have done for them.

This is basically what happens. There is a list with a thumbnail, the title of the album, and its feedback status. No description though.

Is there no way of getting a password protected index page for each customer with their client feedback galleries indexed with thumbnail, title AND description?

In Lightroom, we would need all collections (assignments) in a collection set (customer) to publish to just that customers password protected customer zone and each collection should translate to a unique client response gallery under that customer zone.

While you can organize your assignments in Lightroom in such a way, you'll also need to duplicate this in Publish Services using Albums Sets and Albums.

Not a problem! But where do I set up the password protection for the collection set - IN LR och in Backlight?

5. As an option, it would be handy if we could password protect every gallery with customers-employee-unique credentials so that employees optionally can be prevented from seeing other employees galleries within the company - if needed.

If you wanted each employee to have an individualized album (and album feedback) as well as prevent then from seeing other employees' albums, you would need to create a client entry for each employee.

So IS it possible to give each of a customers employees a unique password-protected login that will let them in to see the whole index of that company but that will only allow them to continue to certain galleries for selects?

I´m really confused about how to set this up. I am not a developer, but I manage our site without much effort - but Backlight really confuses me. Every time I need to go back and do modifications, I feel like I need to start all over again. I just don´t get the basic structure of the concept?

You don't say specifically what aspect of Backlight is confusing. But here's some basics on using Backlight: http://ttg-tips-and-tricks.barbeephoto. … templates/

Matthew wrote:

mikkelmand wrote:

How do I make the file names visible in the grid and in the slideshow in Client Response galleries?

Edit the album template in Backlight's Designer. Under the "Image Settings" section, then the "Image Metadata" subsection. Set either of the Thumbnail Metadata fields to "{Filename}" (without quotation marks). To display in the slideshow, set Photos Caption to also include this.

Finally, under the Thumbnail Presentation section, locate the "Metadata Display" subsection, and switch on the desired item containing your filename assignment.

After making these changes you'll need to republish any existing images. In Publisher set up you can check the "Push metadata without updating existing photos" check box to speed up the process.

I'm not yet sure what hjaerta.se is going to need and be, but let me com back to Your first post in this thread and give you some input.

At the moment You have a link to the customer area on top of your entry page.
From there it goes directly to the password entry.
You could point the link  to your customer zone to an album set first.
This album set can contain albums one for each customer.
And it offers more options to provide Information since album sets have a main copy area.
Each album in the set can display a thumbnail. If the customers don't want one of thier photos disclosed, just upload their brand logo and set that as thumbnail.
These albums are configured as CRG albums.
The password page appears after the customers click on their album.
If You have customers who do not want others to know that You work for them, You can pick the option "Hide from Album Set" in LR when You create the album.
Downside is, You will have to give a special link to those customers bringing them directly to their CRG album.
But the visible album of the customers serves as a reference for Your company. When working for corporate customers that might not be a bad idea.
If You have customers for whom You do several jobs in parallel, You can give them separate CRG albums for each job. You can even use another album set to bundle multiple CRG Albums for one customer.

I believe it's the Navigation, Header section of Your Page Template -- Menu Items

If You create and send me a login for that page I can tell for sure.
But give it a try first.