user specific files

  • oga23

    (@oga23)


    9 years, 9 months ago

    hi, thom.

    please help as i think i will lose my mind – if that hasn’t happen allready 🙂

    For weeks now i am trying to achieve what i believe is basically the same thing as discussed above. i have read your tutorials and most of the treads, i tested almost every file management plugin known to men and i am affraid my head will explode – you know, to much information 🙂
    and after every single plugin i have teste i come back to fileaway in hope that this time i will be able to get it done…but no…

    the problem is that i have no coding skills and i just can’t get behind of it of how i could get it to do what i need it to do – from all the reading the only thing i know is it can be done with your plugin.

    So what i would like to do is this:
    i want to build a webpage where every client that registers gets a profile. on this profile page there are four tabs – each for a different category. i managed to do that.
    now – for each tab(category) i would like to be able to upload files(mostly pdf’s) that belong only to a specific client/user and that only this user can see them. and i as admin of course.
    then i would like those files to be listed in this specific tab. – i know that for each tab i will need a different shortcode in it, but the codes would be almost the same, the only difference would be in the category – meaning in the tab itself.
    for one tab i would like to have an option for users to upload files by themselves.

    the question is how do i achieve this and how do i specify the user for whom i am uploading a file for?

    beacuse of my nonexisting coding skills i would really need a step by step guide on how to that so i would finally understand the process…

    i am very sorry that this post got so looooong but i really don’t know what to do and who to ask for help anymore.

    thank you for this amazing plugin and your time.

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/file-away/

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  • Thread Starter oga23

    (@oga23)

    9 years, 9 months ago

    please help.

    Plugin Author thomstark

    (@thomstark)

    9 years, 9 months ago

    Tab 1: [fileaway sub=”fa-userid/cat1″ makedir=”true”]
    Tab 2: [fileaway sub=”fa-userid/cat2″ makedir=”true”]
    Tab 3: [fileaway sub=”fa-userid/cat2″ makedir=”true”]
    Tab 4: [fileaway sub=”fa-userid/cat2″ makedir=”true”][fileup sub=”fa-userid/cat2″]

    Thread Starter oga23

    (@oga23)

    9 years, 9 months ago

    so glad to hear from you.
    do you mean ca1 is for tab 1, cat 2 is for tab 2, cat 3 is for tab 3 and so one?
    how do i upload to this folders?
    can there be only one base directory?
    thank you so much, thomstark…

    Thread Starter oga23

    (@oga23)

    9 years, 9 months ago

    now i get a dropdown list but nothing except cat2 is in it…i would need an users list.
    and when i upload a file(file up) the file is nowhere…

    Plugin Author thomstark

    (@thomstark)

    9 years, 9 months ago

    Those were examples. The key is to use “fa-userid” in the sub then whatever category directory you want in whatever tab. This will create a directory for each user based on their user id.

    You can use any of your 5 base directories, and extend it with the sub attribute.

    I thought you wanted the users to upload their own files. If not, just give yourself a fileup shortcode pointing to the base directory with a showto=”administrator” so only administrators see it.

    All of this is explained in the documentation provided with the plugin. See the Dynamic Paths tutorial for further help.

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