Partner Sharing - Collaborative shared timeline with full write access
Hello Immich team,
I’m evaluating Immich as a self-hosted, "Cloudinary-style" media hub. The main blocker I’ve hit is collaboration: with two or more users, if User A shares their timeline with User B, User B can view it but cannot add, delete, or edit User A’s items. That makes a shared family/team library difficult...
Is there a way to have a single shared timeline/library where all members can add media and edit metadata (people/facial recognition, GPS/locations, tags, albums, etc.) essentially a partner/shared space with write permissions for everyone?
If this is already possible, could you point me to the correct setup? If not, consider this a feature request are there any recommended workarounds, or is this on the roadmap?
Apart from this, performance has been excellent. Thanks for the great work, and apologies if this isn’t the right channel!
Sincerely,
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Successfully submitted, a tag has been added to inform contributors. :white_check_mark:This is not possibe currently. There is a plan of sharing re-work in the future but no ETA on when that might be. The only real workaround for something like this right now is using a single account for everyone. Which obviously comes with it's own downsides.
Thanks so much for the quick answer!
Understood, we’ll stick with a single shared account for now, even if it’s not ideal for audit/ownership. For curiosity, I even tried poking the Postgres DB to remap assets so User B could see User A’s items it "worked" but then User A lost access to those photos… so not viable but a fun experiment 😄
Is there a GitHub issue or discussion we can follow/upvote for the sharing rework? I’m happy to share detailed use cases if needed
Also, if you happen to know any self-hosted or managed alternatives that already support a truly shared, writable library/timeline (including shared people/facial recognition and metadata), I’d appreciate any pointers while we wait.
There's an open FR here: https://github.com/immich-app/immich/discussions/1633
It's a desired feature I have no doubt will come in the future, just all focus is on going stable at this point and that's a pretty large re-work of asset ownership.
I haven't really tried out any other solutions co I can't give any recommendations there 🙁