Jeremy Wallis

I’ve not heard anything … can you let me know when to expect the deliverable for testing?

Thanks.

Could you give me an idea of whether what I’m asking is possible (i.e. not highly convoluted requiring a large customisation effort).

Brief Use Case Info:

– I use WP Multi-site and each client buys a sub-site

– The sub-site will have users specific to that client, could be 30 of them but could also be 400 of them.

– Some users are leaders of the community they represent and have admin rights on the site. Hence they are allowed to add documents to folders.

– The majority of users on the site do not have any admin rights but they will have view / download rights for certain documents

– The folders I create (for ease of explanation) are called A, B & C and there are custom WordPress roles also called A, B & C.

– I need to be able to set permissions for the various roles to access the folders … and WPDM already does this, i.e:
– People with role A can only view files in folder A.
– People with role B can view files in folders A and B.
– People with role C are the admins and can view files in folders A, B & C.
– As mentioned, WPDM already does this without any issues.

– When they buy the site I setup the folders A, B & C for them with the role-based permissions all in place.

– Over time though and, this is where my requirement comes from for front end editing, the admins realise that they need their own set of sub-folders in folders A, B & C so as to give some structrure to their documents.

– I setup generic sub-folders when they first start but, eventually, they need to customise it for their own particular circumstances and so I have to go in and edit this for them, which I’d rather not do if they could do it themselves.

– So I would want for them to be able to add sub-folders within the preset folders A, B, C and for those folders to automatically inherit the viewing / download permissions of the parent folder.

– So when they go through the normal process of adding a document package and clicking the categories that can view it, they can see the top level A, B, C folders with the sub-folders that they created also shown

– I envisage a page that only displays the folder structure and allows you to add / edit it.

Let me know if that is possible without breaking the bank!

Thanks.

Also, I assume this is still multi-site compatible?

Thanks for the reply.

My use-case is not to be in the WPDM interface and decide I wish to email a file (although if there is a way to do that maybe point me to the link).

Instead it is on a custom form where I wish to add a document … is there a script that I can run that, when clicked, opens an interface to attach the link to a document stored in WPDM?

Thanks.

Is there a forum where perhaps I can find someone else who has experienced something similar? Am really stuck.

Any ideas on my last message about why the shortcode works OK on the web server (where you logged in and used a Test page) but same code does not work on a localhost on my computer?

The site on the web is simply a restore of the computer localhost version.

Many thanks, that is basically what I was looking for but a couple issues remain:

– Does the shortcode you managed to get working, allow me to specify a specific category that only gets its last few packages displayed?

– If you have changed some code behind the scenes, how can I now replicate that on my Dev site? The site I gave you access to is a restore of my dev site that I use to provide access to yourself so you can help trouble shoot issues. But I now need to get that working on the dev site.

By the way, the reason I have no access rights set at package level is because I need to control access by category. My clients will be uploading their own packages and I cannot risk them suddenly making a package available to All Visitors (which was the default before you previously showed me some code edits to prevent that being the default).

And by the way, I need to get this working for client testing so would appreciate as quick a response as you can give.

Thanks.

Any progress on this one? I really need to get it working.

Thanks.