## Edit album

### Informations

- name: rename the album (a virtual rename in case of a physical album).
- description: short text giving a general idea of the content, this text will be displayed at the bottom of the thumbnails page.

### Move

If the album is virtual, you can move it. Moving a album means changing its parent album.

### Options

- Access type: Permissions management. If you make a album private, all its child albums becomes private. If you make a album public, all its parent albums becomes public.
- Lock: The album and its sub-albums will be temporary disabled for maintenance.
- Comments: Authorize users to comment photos of this album.

You can also manage these options on the "Properties" management screen (screens Comments, Lock, Public/Private, Representative available from Administration » Albums » Properties).

### Sort order

Use the default images sort order.

Indicate whether this sort order will apply to subalbums also.

Select specific sorting criteria to be used with this album.

- Creation date: Photo shooting date
- Post date: Synchronization date
- Average rate (*): Average rate could be changed by the visitor rating
- Most visited (*): The current visit might change the most visited order
- File name: Name given in information field
- Id: Internal Id (recent categories have an higher id than previous ones.

(*)Warning: Be sure to test these sort orders by yourself as they can give unexpected results.

### Representant

The album representative is the thumbnail displayed on the main page (category.php) to represent the album when it contains only sub-albums and no direct photo (just as the root album).

photo of a album :

- Photo page: one of the action buttons let you set the current photo as the representative for the displayed album. This button is available only for administrators.
- Modify informations about a photo in administration. This screen can be reached from picture.php or Batch management in unit mode. See the help of this screen for details.
- Administration » Albums » Properties, Representative. See the help of this screen for details.
- Edit album (the present screen).

The choice of a representative depends on the `allow_random_representative` configuration parameter (see include/config_default.inc.php).

In default mode (`allow_random_representative` set to false), each album containing at least one element is represented by a fixed element. Once set (at album creation), the representative changes only when an administrator ask for it. If the representative is not appropriate, you can ask to Find a new representant by random.

If the `allow_random_representative` configuration parameter is set to true, a category containing photos may have no fixed representant. Just use Delete representant button.

If the album contains only sub-albums and no photo, it can nonetheless be represented by any element thanks to Modify informations about a photo screen. The only option on the current screen is the Delete representant button.

### Link all album photos to a new album

- Virtual album name: Name of the new album to be created, all photos of the current category will be linked to the new one.
- Parent album: Where the new album will be, leave empty to create it at root.

### Link all album photos to existing albums

- Albums: Choose the destination album.

### Send an information email to group members

- Group: recipients group
- Mail content: Free text to send to them.