Permission for Photos

[cstappas]

Hi ACC team,

I’d like to suggest adding a permission feature for photos where visibility can be restricted to specific roles or groups—such as allowing only the management team to view certain images, while hiding them from subcontractors.

This would help manage sensitive content more efficiently and ensure only relevant stakeholders have access.

Thanks for considering this!

[annika.kirsch]

The feature is absolutely necessary, as everyone has access to the photos at the moment. 

[daniel.hoogeveenHUJEK]

As noted above @annika.kirsch @cstappas just repeating this feature is absolutely necessary, as everyone has access to the photos at the moment. I have posted a similar thread, and spoken/correspondended with my account manager numerous times on this. I hope @autodesk listens if they can hear this!

[jsills567A9]

I am trying to integrate a system that allows us to upload expense receipts into Photos so that we can add them as references in Cost Management/Cost/Internal Expenses. Not every member of the project needs to see all photos. These should definitely have a permissions setting to restrict access. Another idea is to be able to create folders and place permissions on said folders. @autodesk 

[richard.bornhoffer]

Essential feature request

[jonminick]

We are aware of the importance of this functionality for everyone and we are actively working on a solution. Thank you all for the feedback and stay tuned for more updates on this topic in the future.

[rick_notari]

@jonminick - In addition, allowing multiple photos to be deleted at once would improve efficiency. Currently only one photo can be deleted at a time.

[edavisonH7JF7]

Photos should absolutely have permission controls. At a minimum, administrators should have the ability to remove unwanted or inappropriate images. Without this safeguard, there’s a real risk that an external user (supplier/subcontractor) could post something that should not be visible to stakeholders, leading to problematic outcomes.

[cmackenzieN25YV]

Permission Controls are a must for adding Photos to the photo section of ACC.  Without these controls subcontractors and others that have permissions can just add whatever photos they want which poses so many issues such as a large volume of random photos or photos not tagged/labeled therefore useless further down the line when looking at them, inappropriate photos, etc.

The team members that do have permission to add photos should also be able to delete photos.

[joey.gelderblom]

@jonminick - In addition, allowing to edit meta data of multiple photos at once would also improve efficiency. At the moment, for example, the location of only one photo can be edited at a time.

When photos are taken within a Form while using the mobile ACC app, the 'location' given to the Form is not automatically coupled to the photo (this is the case while using the web application...). This means we have to add the location to each photo individually manually (we use the 'location' to filter photos).

[daniel.hoogeveenHUJEK]

@jonminick   Hello Jon, thanks for accepting request and taking it forward for next steps toward development. Added to the permissions aspect are the notes immediately above from @joey.gelderblom . Multiple editing of photos, (including locations, tags) is a must, as well as multiple deleting by admins.

[Tim.Kelleher1]

@jonminick - Thanks for the feedback on this- I think we are all in agreement that we need bulk editing of photos, and the ability to group/ sort by tags or folders. Even a group by tag to make it work like the photos were added to folders would be great. Per missioning by tags or folders would be a great add- that way we could make some photos available without having to manually share them all. 

[daniel.hoogeveenHUJEK]

Hi @Tim.Kelleher1  I believe by looking at the status of this feature suggestion as 'accepted' that this will be take forward by ACC.