When editing an album there are many options and actions related to.

The album representative is the thumbnail displayed on the main page (category.php) to represent the album. If there is no photo on the album and sub-albums nothing will be displayed until some photos are added or a representative is set manually. If there are photos in the album, click “refresh” to find a new random album thumbnail from the album or any sub-album.
Click on the thumbnail to jump to “edit photo” page and change any information.

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

Actions available

• jump to album: go to the site on this album.
  
• manage album photos: go to Photos » Batch Mananger with a filter for this album selected.
  
• add photos: go to Photos » Add with this album selected as upload.
  
• manage sub-albums: go to Albums » Manage » List with the album selected.
  
• delete album: A confirmation is needed to delete an album. If deleted, all photos becomes orphan (no album associated) but none is removed. Orphans photos can be managed from Photos » Batch manager » Predefined filter » With no virtual album.

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.

Parent album: if empty, the album belongs to root. Change parent album means move it.

Lock: The album and its sub-albums will be temporary disabled for maintenance.

Comments: Authorize users to comment photos of this album.

Enable change of photo order of the album.

Use the default photo sort order: The default sort order is defined in the configuration file by two options: order_by_custom and order_by_inside_category_custom. More description is available activating the “Local Files Editor” plugin and displaying the reference file.

• Manual order: When set to manual order, photos order can be changed by dragging and dropping elsewhere.

• Automatic order: Use some of pre defined orders for photos. There are many options to choose from, including date created, date posted, rating score*, visits*, and so on.

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

Here we can control how visitors have access to the album and sub-albums.

• public: If the album is set to public, any visitor can see it and also all parent albums becomes public.
  
• private: If the album is set to private the Groups and users box appears. Visitors need to login to have checked the appropriated permission to see this album. It is possible to grant permissions for group of users or individual users. Using private albums, you may want to check the “Apply to sub-albums” checkbox to set permissions on all sub-albums simultaneously.
  

keep in mind that all sub-albums will become private too, applying or not the permissions.

Send an information email to group members Group: Choose the recipient group of users to receipt the email. Complementary mail content: Free text to send to them.