# Album Management

## 1. Differences between albums and collections

### Album

An album contains one or more images. You can set the permissions for each album in a different way.

### Collections

Collections are like a container or folder for one or more albums. Permissions set for a collection are not valid for the contained albums.\
A collection should not have images, as they will be nowhere displayed.\
you can recognize a collection on the displayed number of albums in it:\
![](https://433634777-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-legacy-files/o/assets%2F-LthHFp7RzekCIY20zFD%2F-LthH_7qEjyCaOPTLOeH%2F-LthHh-ij4r6hYboK14U%2Falbummanagement3.png?generation=1573791655130722\&alt=media)

## 2. Overview

On the album management page you get an overview about all albums and collections

![](https://433634777-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-legacy-files/o/assets%2F-LthHFp7RzekCIY20zFD%2F-LthH_7qEjyCaOPTLOeH%2F-LthHh-kc1a6V1GfkTkG%2Falbummanagement1.png?generation=1573791654711778\&alt=media)

On the right side you will see the area for sorting albums/collections.

## 3. Sorting albums

![](https://433634777-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-legacy-files/o/assets%2F-LthHFp7RzekCIY20zFD%2F-LthH_7qEjyCaOPTLOeH%2F-LthHh-my7OnJFx-dxxl%2Falbummanagement2.png?generation=1573791654798727\&alt=media)\
You can easily sort them by drag\&drop.\
With a click on "+" you can expand a collection, with "-" reduce it.\
You can create a nested tree up to as many levels you want.

## 3. Additional buttons

Depending on your permissions (see [Permissions](https://github.com/ggoffy/wggallery-tutorial/tree/bcf953498c64daac6437e86e50596fd2b0d01daa/english/the-user-side/administration-menu/permissions.md)) you will see addtional buttons like

* "Show album" (see [Displaying albums](https://xoops.gitbook.io/wggallery-tutorial/english/the-user-side/displaying-albums))
* "Show images index (see[ Image index](https://xoops.gitbook.io/wggallery-tutorial/english/the-user-side/image-index))
* "Image management (see [Image management](https://xoops.gitbook.io/wggallery-tutorial/english/the-user-side/image-management))
* "Upload images (see [Uploading images](https://github.com/ggoffy/wggallery-tutorial/tree/bcf953498c64daac6437e86e50596fd2b0d01daa/english/the-user-side/uploading-images.md))
* "Edit album" (see [Create new album](https://xoops.gitbook.io/wggallery-tutorial/english/the-user-side/create-new-album))
* "Edit album image" (see [Album image](https://xoops.gitbook.io/wggallery-tutorial/english/the-user-side/album-image))
* "Delete"
* "Download album"