Posted on 08/07/2007
All other profile attributes purpose seems to be obvious, whereas photos password protection functionality might seem difficult to understand. To avoid confusion, let us take a look at this example.
Let's imagine we have two members M1 (lady) and M2 (gentleman). A lady has uploaded 4 additional pictures to her profile. Pictures 1 and 2 should be publicly available and pictures 3 and 4 should be password-protected. M1 enters her control panel and clicks the "upload photos" link in the member menu. This panel allows uploading photos and setting them to be password-protected. After M1 uploads a photo, in the photo control cell appears a checkbox "Private photo". If M1 ticks this checkbox, this photo will be available to those members only who know the photo password set by M1. If M1 ticks checkboxes for photos 3 and 4, only these photos will be password-protected. Photos password is set in the "My Profile" panel in the section "Private password". Also note that below the password field there is a radio button field that allows choosing requests notification mode. In case M1 chooses "Notify Me", she will receive a notification message every time somebody requests her photos password.
Now let's imagine M2 looks through M1's profile and wants to see photos 3 and 4 that are protected. After clicking the "more photos" link, M2 will see pictures 1 and 2 and instead of pictures 3 and 4 password submission form will appear. If M2 does not know M1's photos password, he can submit a request for the password by clicking the "Submit request" button.
After that in the Communicator section of M1's profile there will appear a new record with a "grant password" link on the right side of the "Private photos passwords" section (M2 will have a new record appeared on the right side of the "Private photos passwords" section - with a note "not granted"). If M1 clicks the "grant password" link, the note "not granted" for M2 will turn into M1's photos password. If M1 changes the password, M2 will see the changed password. If, for some reason, M1 wants to deprive M2 of her password, she can tick the checkbox next to M2's nickname in her communicator and click the "Cancel password(s)" button.
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