Sharing links to your Phanfare site and albums

From Phanfare Support

The easiest way to share your albums and your Phanfare site is to send your friends an invitation from within the Phanfare desktop application. But sometimes you just want to grab the web address for an album and send it around in your own email or embed it in a web page.

If your site or albums are password protected and you want your visitors to enter the password when they click the link, then simply copy the link from your browser and use that. However, the Phanfare desktop application can generate a link for you that embeds an obfuscated version of your password so visitors don't have to enter the password. Why would you set a password and not require that visitors enter it? Because this makes it easy for the people who you want to visit the album to be able to see it. But it places a gate in front of anyone who stumbles across your site or album.

The linking function is currently only available in the Windows version of the Phanfare desktop application.

Linking to your site

1. Click on the Share menu and select Link... and To Your Website.
2. Choose Copy Link to Clipboard.
3. Paste the link into an email message, document, or wherever you want to use it.

Linking to an album

The types of links you can generate for an album depends on both your site's security settings and your album's security settings. For more on album security settings, [Security options for albums | click here].

	Site Security Settings	Album Security Settings	Album Link Behavior
	Site has a password	Album uses the site's security settings	You can send a link that lets the visitor also see the rest of the albums in your site's Table of Contents that use the site's security settings, or you can send a link that only lets them see this specific album.
	Site does not have a password	Album uses the site's security settings	The link will let the visitor see any album in your site's Table of Contents that uses the site's security settings.
	Site has a password	Album has its own password	The link will only let the visitor see this specific album
	Site has a password	Album does not have a password	The link will only let the visitor see this specific album
	Site does not have a password	Album has a password	The link will let the visitor see any album in your site's Table of Contents that uses the site's security settings.
	Site does not have a password	Album does not have a password but does not use the site's security settings	The link will let the visitor see any album in your site's Table of Contents that uses the site's security settings.

1. Click on the Share menu and select Link... and To Your Album.
2. Depending on your site's security settings, you may be given the choice of links, or you'll be given a single link. More on this below. If given a choice, choose the most appropriate option.
3. Choose Copy Link to Clipboard.
4. Paste the link into an email message, document, or wherever you want to use it.