Quick summary
Albums are used to:
group projects together for organising or reporting purposes
aggregate your stats and progress from across multiple projects
filter data according to the contacts, stories or users within the projects of that album
More detail
Albums allow you to see the aggregate figures from across several projects.
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They are useful for reporting or high level analysis.
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Projects per Album tab of your Blueprints: add a column for each album you'd like to
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have and then mark with a Yes the projects you'd like to assign to each album.
A project can be part of multiple albums.
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On Makerble Album 'Categories' don't exist as a feature, however we include them in the Blueprints spreadsheet as a way for you to think through the different types of Album you want to have.
Example scenario
You have a North London project and a South London project
You receive funding from the Mayor of London
On each project you record the number of attendees
If you create a Mayor of London Album that contains the two projects, you can see the total number of attendees from across the two projects
Rules & Relationships
A project can be part of many albums
An album can contain many projects
Each album has
Album Editors: users who have permission to rename the album, add/remove projects, add Album Observers
Album Observers: users who have permission to view the album
What albums look like
Every album has a profile page
The projects section displays the projects within that album
Clicking each project will take you to that project's profile page
In the example below, the 2021 Portfolio is the Album and it contains several projects.
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The Progress Panel on the Album page displays the sum total of the progress towards each Progress Tracker from each project within that Album.
So if Attendees is a Progress Tracker that’s used on multiple projects, when you look at that Progress Tracker on the Album page, it will show you the sum of the Attendees from across all the projects in that Album.
Related pages
Albums - how to create, edit and view them