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Thank you so much Rod! I´m one step on the way! I actually have something now, even though I understand absolutely nothing of this!
I have no images in the album, and no thumbnail in the album list?
Ok, it´s a viable solution to just link from a page in our wordpress.
Would you want to assist me in the setup of Backlight/Lightroom? We could do it over Teamviever. We´ll pay you!
So ideally, what we dream of achieving now is to have a static page at www.hjaerta.se/urval
This is a shortcut all clients can remember, and we can even link to that from our wordpress homepage. They will then be met by a login window and log in with details handed out by us. That would take them to their companys specific page in Backlight with an index of all Client Feedback galleries that we have uploaded from Lightroom.
I just dont see the structure here. Im totally at lost!
Thank you SO much!
Now I can actually see a page. Or is it a gallery that I see?
http://hjaerta.se/kunder/galleries
mikkelmand wrote:I don't need that. All we need is to be able to use the Client Response Gallery function. Seem to demand a nobel prize to achieve that?
Rod, any idea as to why we see http://hjaerta.se/kunder/backlight but not http://hjaerta.se/kunder/
All advice greatly appreciated!!
What is the Kunder folder supposed to contain?
Your Galleries page is here: http://hjaerta.se/kunder/galleries/
however, it looks like it's missing the style sheets.Looking at the page source, the page is looking for the style sheets in
http://hjaerta.se/kunder/backlight/backlight/However, the files are located in:
http://hjaerta.se/kunder/backlight/what have you entered in Backlight settings for Site URL? It looks like it should be
http://hjaerta.se/kunder/
That is just GREAT!
Would you care to explain to me how you get there, in babysteps? I manage MailChimp, Surveymonkey, Creative Cloud Apps - but I feel like a retard when trying to figure out Backlight!
I would pay you to help me!!!!
mikkelmand wrote:That last suggestion: would that take you to a page with more than one clients galleries?
No, it will take you to a log-in screen. When the client logs in they see only their galleries. In my example, those two galleries are assigned to that one client.
I started at this 9.00. It´s now 15.03. I have achieved what he achieved in 2:00 minutes inte the video.
I need to cry!!!
I don't need that. All we need is to be able to use the Client Response Gallery function. Seem to demand a nobel prize to achieve that?
Rod, any idea as to why we see http://hjaerta.se/kunder/backlight but not http://hjaerta.se/kunder/
All advice greatly appreciated!!
That last suggestion: would that take you to a page with more than one clients galleries?
I don't know if it's possible to do exactly as you wish.
You could create a password protected album set that contains a client's albums. But this would be done with normal password protection at the album set level and NOT with Client Response. Your clients would then click on a thumbnail for an album and be required to log in again as a client (this is only if you wish to use client management). Probably not a good option as it might annoy clients.
The other option is to give your clients this URL: yoursite.com/backlight/client-response
They will then be presented with a login form. After logging in they'll be taken to a page with a linked list of their albums. Each link is accompanied by a thumbnail.For an example, go here: http://backlight-rb-test.barbeephoto.co … -response/
Credentials are:
Email: woof@woof.com
Password: woof
The index.php and .htaccess files are included (and needed) with the Pages module. Did you purchase Backlight + Pages?
Halleluja!!!! Thanks!
No, I did not purchase Pages. Do I need that?
So I just repeated every single step that he does in the film. I even downloaded Coda just to be sure. I made it show invisible files and folders - still nothing?
How is it that every single time I need to manage this thing, I spend whole days investigating babysteps?
Thank you for your time Markh!
Around 80% of all assignments we do are returning customers. We have strict orders from some of our major clients that no other customers may see even a gallery thumbnail of theirs. If we are to convince them to use the Client Response function then their condition is that it´s password protected from step one!
We do not find it troublesome to make the Album Sets and Albums in LR reflect this structure....
We are launching a new venture. I do the marketing footwork before launch i 67 days. Above other things I do our webpage, mailchimp integration and more.
Here is our pre-launch site:
I wish to prepare a backend function for clients to select images for postproduction. We wish to use Backlight for this and have purchased Backlight and the Client Response Gallery.
But, as alway I´m tearing me hair out trying to figure out the logic behind this product. I read the documentation, but languagewise there is so much I just don´t understand? I have said this before and I´ll say it again: when I read the documentation I feel like it is written to someone who already understands tha core concept of it. I don´t.
So, the documentation really confuses me. I´ve been dreading for this day today because I know that within an hour I am going to feel like throwing my computer in a deep deep lake. No other software makes me feel like this. I am a certified expert in Adobe Photoshop, I use Adobe Illustrator, InDesign and Lightroom on a daily basis. But Backlight gets the better of me…
I have managed to install Backlight. I´ve set up a Puplishing service in Lightroom and they have connection.
Now what I would like to achieve is this. I really would highly appreciate if you would take the time and explain to me how to achieve this:
1. I would like all our clients to be able to go to http://www.hjaerta.se/kunder (kunder means customers in swedish) and append a forward slash and the customer brand name (i.e Intertek) and push Enter.
2. They would then come to a password protected page where they enter the login details that I have set up for the customer in the admin panel.
3. They are then, efter loggin in, passed on to a page with thumbnails and descriptions of each assignment that we have done for them.
4. Every thumbnail on that page leads to a client selection page where they do their feedback.
5. The ony stage that needs to be password protected is the first - so after coming to the customers own dedicated page efter identifying with login credentials, the access to all their stuff is open to them.
6. We need a design concistency between all pages. So we would like to ajust a template for both point 2. 3. 4 and 5. Do we need Pages to do that?
I imagine this is going to be a steep uphill. Maybe it´s not. I would just love to understand the core of this product because I realize it really is a fantastic product that compares to nothing else really.
I hope someone can find the time to help us here. We want to do this right the first time.
Hello;
I am following the youtube-film "Backlight First Look" and trying to follow.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtzGfUiC6kU
In my just downloaded Backlight-111.zip there are no files called .htacces or index.php? I use Transmit as FTP-client and have set it to show invisible files, but they are not here.
So after uploading I can log in to the admin userface:
http://hjaerta.se/kunder/backlight
But I can't see the page http://hjaerta.se/kunder/
Any clues?
Thank you Matthew! I wish I had known that from the beginning! I´m sure I´ll manage now that I know this!
Could you explain to me how I achieve the following - using the same simple language as you did above?:
1. I would like to have two navigation items on the auto-index page: one that says "Client selection" and that leads to an auto-index with my galleries with not adjusted jpgs - and another item that says "Delivery" that leads to an auto-index with galleries with high resolution jpgs and that are downloadable. The sorting of images into albums I can manage, but the rest I have no idea of how to achieve.
2. I´m still not sure where to enter information to get the auto-index to be password-protected when managing CRG´s through Publisher?
I appreciate your time!
Regards, Mikkel
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Will try this tomorrow. Need sleep now after wasting 12 hours on this...
This is a nightmare! I dread thinking about what will happen if I ever;
- change web host
- update lightroom
I guess I plan on using Publisher!
I´ve bought the CE4 Client Proofing Bundle. I wan´t to use whatever is easiest to achieve what I wrote in my previous comment!
I would SO love if you could just explain in easy steps how to achieve this:
1. Have individual auto-index-pages in "mydomain.com/KUNDER"
2. Have each auto-index.page be password-protected but not the galleries inside the pages.
I don´t care what I use, I just want the easiest way to achieve what I wrote in the first comment.
I´m sorry, I don´t understand anything of that?
I have no problem with myself creating passwords/usernames for my customers and email them their credentials. But I need there to only be a login to the auto-index-page, not to each gallery...
I can't understand how galleries are associated with auto-index-pages?
I don´t understand what that means? Do yo mean that I should export the auto index and name it the customers name and upload that to the "my domain.com/KUNDER"-folder?
a) set up a new auto-index page in each "mydomain.com/KUNDER"-folder? I´ve managed to set up the default "my domain.com/galleries"-folder, but this would require my customers to change their habit, and I would prefer to still direct them to my previous location of i.e "mydomain.com/KUNDER/NAME".
You can still do this. Make the NAME folder the autoindex.
Ok
b) I have problems with the password-thing. I want a customer-specific password for each auto-index-page, but not for the galleries inside of it. How do I achieve that?
enable password protection in Output Settings for each autoindex and provide username and password.
http://ce4.theturninggate.net/docs/doku … protectionHowever, if you are using managing your CRGs through the ttg-be/CRG admin, your clients will still have to log into that.
(you don't say how you're deploying your CRGs)c) I would like the hierarki in the "Publish Service" to reflect that of my "mydomain.com/KUNDER"-folder. For that I guess I have to use Album Set´s. But I can't get that to work either.
Yes, Album Sets are the way to go. You'll need to upload an exported Autoindex to ttg-be-/templates/autoindex before that will work.
What have you done so far? You say you can't get it to work but we can only guess as to what you're doing.
I think I must be going crazy. I´ve been sitting with this all day, it´s almost midnight and I just can´t get it to work the way I would like to. I can get the steps to work individually, but I just can't get it to work together. I would greatly appreciate help achieving this:
1. I have a folder on my site thats called "mydomain.com/KUNDER" (that´s "CUSTOMERS"). In that folder I have folders for each returning customer where I usually drop zipped folders with previews from assignments. I would love to have a customer-password -protected auto-index page for each returning customer with client-response-galleries from each assignment, so that they always will be able to return and get an overview of the assignments I´ve done for them and to do new selections to send me.
How do I:
a) set up a new auto-index page in each "mydomain.com/KUNDER"-folder? I´ve managed to set up the default "my domain.com/galleries"-folder, but this would require my customers to change their habit, and I would prefer to still direct them to my previous location of i.e "mydomain.com/KUNDER/NAME".
b) I have problems with the password-thing. I want a customer-specific password for each auto-index-page, but not for the galleries inside of it. How do I achieve that?
c) I would like the hierarki in the "Publish Service" to reflect that of my "mydomain.com/KUNDER"-folder. For that I guess I have to use Album Set´s. But I can't get that to work either.
Help is greatly appreciated!
