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Would the public galleries, contained within a private group, get picked up by Google or other search engines? If they would not get picked up, then this is a really good feature. It would be like the Facebook photo application, where you can give out the direct link to people, but people searching cannot find the photos.

I find people don't seem to mind this type of security, which to be fair isn't really that secure, and as it avoids the need for a password, more people are likely to access it.

Not including a gallery (or any item for that matter) in Public Search is a separate check box under Access Control.

I completely agree that this it not security (as noted in the post), this is mostly for convenience.

Yeah, but how AWESOMELY convenient!  I thought I had figured out all the cool ins-and-outs of your wonderfully versatile access control, but this is a new one on me, and a DAMN USEFUL one.  (As you would probably guess, it opens doors that might not have even occurred to you.)  

The thing I am loving about the gallery versatility (that I haven't found anywhere else) is that it really allows me to tackle and integrate many different challenges in one place and interface.  With this power-user trick, for example, I could easily run a proofs shoot by a customer with no password hassles, and yet also no muddling up of my general public galleries.  

Previously (just yesterday, in fact), I thought I'd need to set up a different account to do that, if I didn't want the different purposes to get mixed up together.  

Thanks VERY much for sharing.  

This is very useful.. something new to apply.

Thx Zenfolio

It seems to me that I tried this once, and while the hidden gallery could only be found with the URL, the photos themselves would turn up if someone did a search from my Zenfolio home page, even if Public Search had been disallowed.  I checked with Zenfolio support and they confirmed that was normal.  So be aware of that (or perhaps it's been changed by now, which I think it should be.)

This is indeed a great feature. I used hidden galleries to show private pictures to friends and family while keeping the general public from it. I've even taken it a step further by using collections to only showcase the good photos from those hidden galleries to the public (and thus hiding the gallery link). One minor request is to have the "Photos By:" box removed for photos by me.

So, I send the client the http link, right?  Just wondered if there is a way to make this link smaller.  I'd like to use my domain name followed by the project name.  I know it really doesn't matter, but I'm just trying to make things look tight.  

Disregard my comment; I somehow ended up with a long url, but I have it figured out.  This is a very nice feature.