No Album-Set Cover when Album-Set is password protected

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#1

Hi there,

I can not figure out how to set a Cover Image for an Album Set that is password protected.

I already found the documentation on how to set custom thumbnails. This works great but only on single Albums. As soon as I set a cover image on an album set it is displayed properly. But if I change to “password protected” in Lightroom the cover image is not shown.

Background: I’d like to set up an Album Set for each customers. This album set needs to be password protected.

Hope you can help

thanks and cheers
Elmar

#2

I believe that this is a security feature. Since the album set is private, that assumes all the images within that set are private and therefore are not shown as a cover image.

I thought that maybe this could be bypassed by uploading a custom image as the cover image (something like a jpg made in Photoshop with just text), but that didn’t work either.

That might be a nice feature though. (I have no idea if it’s possible)

For now, you’ll need to rely on the the title of the Album Set to identify it to customers.

#3

You are believing right. But even using a cover image from the „custom_thumbnails“ album which is not in the protected album set will work.

I also have already tried to set the cover image manually by uploading directly to the set but this also does not work.

I always get this „image missing“ icon upon the album set name.

Would it be at least be possible to:

  1. disable icon on album set completely to have only text?
  2. set an alternative icon that looks better?

Thanks a lot
Elmar

#4

With custom css it should be possible.

this will remove the icon from the cell, leaving the cell empty (leaves the title and description in their fields):

.albums .no-thumbnail {
  display:none;
}

For text in place of the icon, you can use this custom css:

.albums .fa-file-image::before {
  content: "Private set";
  font-size: 36px;
}

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For an alternate icon, you’ll need to find one you like in the Font Awesome options

Try using this code in your custom css:


.albums .fa-file-image::before {
  content: "\f1c5";
}

and replace “\f1c5” with the unicode for the icon you want to use. You’ll also probably want to increase the font size. For example, this code uses the “circle-user” icon:

.albums .fa-file-image::before {
	content: "\f2bd";
	font-size: 36px;
}

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When you find an icon you like, look on the upper right for the unicode:

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I’ve not tested this on mobile devices, so text and icons using larger font-sizes might look weird.

Also, any of the code choices will be applied to any set that’s missing a cover image, not just protected sets.

Is there an solution on the topic "no cover thumbnail when album set is password protected?"
#5

@rod_barbee …long time no see. Finally I had the time to try this out. It was hard to comprehend in the beginning until I realized that CSS are defined Designer → Templates → Default Page - but for sure my bad :slight_smile:

Just wanted to leave a comment with a big thank you! Now it’s working fine with a nice lock symbol which btw is:

.albums .fa-file-image::before {
content: “\f023”;
font-size: 90px;
}

So, big thanks!