Feature request: Unlisted directories

[Rickkwa]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

When you upload a video to Youtube, you can set the visibility of it to Public, Private, or Unlisted. I'm basically looking for that Unlisted feature here. ie. Be able to create folders that do not show up on the UI or search for discovery, but you can still access the content if you have the link to it.

Describe the solution you'd like

A possible implementation is to treat folders' whose name starts with . or _ as unlisted. And of course, this feature will be behind a feature toggle.

Can introduce a couple new options in config.json such as:

Gallery.enableUnlistedDirectories (boolean; default to false): Enable having unlisted directories (doesn't show up in UI or search).
Gallery.unlistedDirectoryPrefix (string; default to "_"): When Gallery.enableUnlistedDirectories is enabled, directories whose name starts with this string will be treated as unlisted.

[bpatrik]

I dont mind having it but I do not have the time to develop it.

Essentially, it would be a server side change, that would need wether not select from the DB or post filter the selection.

[fabianus76]

This feature would be terrific !
I came here to submit the same idea :-)

[Rickkwa]

@bpatrik I saw your extension PR (#768) that is in alpha. Very excited for extensions to officially release. Is this feature something that can achieved with the current extension functionality?

[bpatrik]

Yeah it should be a 5-10 code in the extension to filter out files during indexing.

[bpatrik]

Ah I reread your the FR.
It is not possible at the moment but happy to add this to extension capability.
You will need something like a gallery listing event. Where you filter what goes down to the client (ie remove the one that you want to hide).

Ping me once the extension is more stable but such event handler is missing.

[bpatrik]

you can now hide certain photos for certain users:

This not exactly this but a similar feature.