Is there any way to filter gallery access by user relationships (friends)?

this would be a great addition, esp for social community sites, with user relationships and having this option in node access gallery would be awesome!

I have just finished installing and configuring node gallery, got everything looking nice and pretty and then started to setup the privacy settings.

Before I was using cck private fields which allows you to specify privacy of cck fields as 'everyone', 'noone' or 'friends'.

When I went to set this up for node gallery images, it dawned on me that the image field isnt actually specified as a node field and therefore I cant use it for my image fields.

This is a major show stopper for me, if such a privacy cannot be setup for relationships then im going to have to look for yet another gallery setup :(

It seems that this submodule goes someway towards solving the privacy issue, would it be much of an issue to integrate it with user relationships? I can explore this aswell myself, It may be worth looking at the 'cck private fields' and 'cck field privacy' modules (similar but private fields is more stable but field privacy attempts to set a 'per relationship' privacy which is also what im needing) for inspiration.

Looking forward to a solution!

I'm pretty maxed out right now with refactoring the node_gallery module for a 3.x version. I'm wondering - in 3.x, the image will be an imagefield cck type - does that solve your issue? I've never used user relationships before, so forgive me for being naive. I'm not saying I won't integrate, but it will likely be some months before I even get a chance to look into it.

If there is an actually cck image which is used in 3.x then that should be fine to use with one of the above modules.

Is there any idea of when 3.x will be operational?

Real Soon Now :)

Feel free to download the 3.x-dev release from the project page and play with it. Note that node_gallery_access is completely incompatible with 3.x node_gallery, so uninstall that first.

Wanted to check if any updates to this were avail?