Family filtering . . .

[David Ryan]

I understand the broad concept of a digital asset manager for the likes of a library or an archive - adding resources, tagging them, adding notes, passing for review to others, publishing, etc . . .

What I'm looking to achieve is on a much smaller scale, possibly involving 2 or 3 family members.  My use case would be to upload (say) 345 photos and videos which were created in July 2025, then have a slideshow which rotates through them.  When someone sees an image of note they click into it and assign keywords or categories or other metadata along the lines of "July 2025 Holiday", "David", "Cat" or "Flagged for deletion" or whatever.  Bit by bit all the 345 photos will either be given useful metadata or flagged for deletion.  Then we move on to the 1,234 photos from December 2017, and so on.

However, this isn't someones job, this is a family endeavour so I have to make it as user friendly as possible.  I reckon I should be able to hack together some custom workflow involving mandatory fields, but it seems to me that someone has probably done something like this before.

I initially thought that the slideshow element in ResourceSpace might be the involved, but from what I can see so far slideshows are small feature sets, where you have to add resources individually.

Ideally this would be presented as a screensaver (or active slideshow running on the desktop) running away in the living area of the house, so that whenever anyone is passing they can click in, add data and go about their day without having to log in, check through a hundred photos, lose track, etc . . .

[David Ryan]

I think I've worked out a mechanism.  Maybe someone can say if this makes sense . . .

1) enable smart collections - add $allow_smart_collections = true; to config.php in the /resourcespace/include directory of your webserver

2) in the search box on the homepage select whatever month/year is of interest

3) click on the "Save search as smart collection" action which now exists thanks to 1) above

4) make the new smart collection part of a featured collection

5) Everyone can see the featured collection

Still no rotating slideshow, but at least I now have an automated mechanism for letting everyone see all resources created in a certain timeframe.