Restrict authorizations for images or database per department or team

Restrict authorizations for images or database per department or team

A frequently asked requirement:
A database and the photos it contains should only be accessible to a specific department. Other departments should work with their own databases or not be able to access certain photos.

Implementation:
Implementation must take place at network authorization level. Please contact your IT or network administrator for this.

Background:
Excire Photo Office Edition can be used to create several databases in the network.
However, the role concept within the administration of Excire Photo Office Edition only restricts certain functions of the program for the corresponding user role. It is not possible to restrict the general opening of a database or access to certain photos or directories.
If this is desired, appropriate authorizations must be set up at network level.
For example, the database and the images could be stored in directories in the network to which only users of a certain department have access.
Please note that Excire Photo creates previews of the images in the database directory. If only access to the photo directory is restricted for a department, the previews would still be visible in the database.
    • Related Articles

    • How can I delete the Excire Foto database?

      To delete the Excire Foto standard database, follow these steps: Navigate to the Excire Foto application data directory. You can find this under "%APPDATA%\Excire Foto" (Windows 10) or under "/Users/<username>/Library/Application Support/excire-foto" ...
    • How to: Sharing Excire Foto Office Edition with a network database

      These instructions explain how multiple employees can use the same database via a network drive. Step 1: Installation and creation of a local database First, each employee installs the Office Edition on their own computer. After installation, a local ...
    • Switching from Windows to Mac (and vice versa): Create a new database in Excire Foto

      When switching from a Windows computer to a Mac computer, you will need to recreate your Excire photo database and add your photos again. Unfortunately, the existing database cannot be transferred. This is mainly due to the different path conventions ...
    • How to backup the Excire Search database?

      A backup of the Excire Search database is automatically performed before and during each major initialization. Excire Search stores the data of the initialized photos in its own database, which is located next to the Lightroom catalog. The backup ...
    • How do I transfer keywords from a local database to a database in the network?

      If you have already tagged photos in your local database, you do not need to tag them again when importing them into a new database in the network if you follow the steps below. 1. save your metadata in the photos from the local database. You can do ...