Wow. Ok.
So if the owner of the website uses your plugin to provide health and safety documents to all it’s clients, and they want to know if Company A has got all their documents….. And then Company B, and maybe many many more – how do they do that?
The fact there is no way to Manage that, is a deep flaw.
We get asked by people about these sorts of systems, and up until recently, we would have recommended it.
But when we discussed this with them they sadly said “really, I can’t see who has got what?”… Not without creating abotu 300 pages for three 300 clients… NO.
Maybe iut’s osmething you never thought you needed – but BOY you do. Big time.
We are now having to pay £100s to get this fixed by another company. As our client has said it is shocking that it can’t, and we don’t want to lose them.
They have no way, at a glance, to click on any given user, to see if they have been given their documents.
Now maybe your tool has never been used in this way, which would explain why this flaw is not known.
It’s maybe more of a Vital Missing Element in the system. But to me, that’s a flaw.
Can you please tell me, based on your rates, what you would charge to enable this??
Better make it fast, or we will request a refund.
We are already looking at alternatives, as this flaw is a BAD one.
How can your developers not have thought about this?!
As a “Manager”, you manage people or you manage the Downloads. You cannot manage the downlaods on this website at all.. as NO way to see who has what assigned to them.
It’s a good plugin, but with this flaw, is it a BAD one.
Simon
The fix would be to do as I suggested – to have a page that allows us to see: Who can see what.
Without that, your plugin it majorly flawed.
If you had a team of 50 people, and a manager. Would you want to ask each team member what they do, or the manager to KNOW about be able to list out their tasks?
Right now, you have maybe 350 clients on this new site, and we have NO WAY to know, who can see what.
It is frankly crazy bad, that this manager has no means to view Who has What, via a shortcode.
100% not a plugin i could ever recommend, when you want to view “does Fred have all his documents?”…. “Sorry, absolutely no idea. No way to find out.”.
From a Safety point of view: it’s very bad.
Problem there.
All downloads/packages assigned to a user is listed in User Dashboard My Downloads Tab
If you want, you can create a special page using shortcode[wpdm_my_downloads login=1 role=”0 or 1″ template=”template-id” cols=”1 or 2 or 3 or 4″ cats=1]or[wpdm_my_downloads login=1]to list all packages assigned to a specific user – this shortcode is useful when you want to create a user-specific download area or members area.
This tells me how the user can see their downloads. Fine.
Special page using shortcode to list all packages assigned to a specific user.
That reads… taht we have to creeate a special page – PER USER… is that right? Or am I wrong there?
I’m sorry?
To be able to Manager our Downloads, and view “Who has what” we would need to have you guys build that?
Oh come on.
This is NOT a download manager, if you cannot Manager who can view what, from a list.
Surely… surely… SURELY there is an admin page, where we can list all users, click the user, and in there, is a screen that shows everything assigned to them?
Come on… must be.
Sorry. But to have a Manager, that cannot see who has what, is not a manager.
If Company A has GOT TO get the Health and Safety documents out to their clients, and need to see if 5 companies have theirs…
With your plugin, there is NO MEANS to see that result. No way to know.
I never asked about this before, as I thought it was a given.
AS a Download Manager who primarily need two things:
To upload thd docs and assign to the users.
The means to see “who has what”.
That final one is a NO BRAINER. And this does not have that.
No central point, to see as a Manager, who has what… that’s red line.
We are not looking at alternatives. This is one major flaw.
Nayeem
Are you really saying to me, that with a tool where we can create users, assign download packages to users, on a grand scale. There is NO way to see: WHO HAS WHAT???
Simon
Sorry why are you making this so very very frustrating and difficult.
I do not have anything that I need.
Please can you give me the Shortcode, that shows an Administrator who has access to this page, what I have asked for many times.
This is becoming very stressful.
I as an admin, just want a dashboard, to see ALL packages, and to be able to filter (or search by) all packages assigned to any given member.
For good housekeeping.
Without that, this whole system is broken.
That shows: “Sorry! No files shared for you.”.
How do I view as i instructed please?
No. This is REALLY bad.
Tell me please – tell me – how do I in fact see what downloads are assigned to a user.
Just explain it.
Simon
I’m sorry?
So right now, if you have 200 users, and overall around 5000 downloads spread across these users:
The website owner has literally NO MEANS to see what downloads are assigned to user number 50?
There must be??? There has to be. Else that is an ENORMOUS DEEP FLAW in this system. A downloads manager where you cannot manage a list to see what is assigned to any given user??
Guide me on your demo – where do I go, to see all downloads, and see the users, so I can then filter by those the downloads are assigned?
ie. We have 200 clients, with 5000 downloads.
I want to see the downloads we have assigned to Client number 50.
Where do i go?
Simon
The slight problem is, when someone logs in to handle all the uploads for the users, they go to the backend. Thre is no backend screen that shows all the Packages/Downloads, assigned to each user.
From what you are sayingw e need to create a link in a custom menu, that goes to a page using your Shortcode.
What exact shortcode do we need on a page, that will show ALL download Packages, and then be able to filter by user? (or search by user)?
” And for your requirement you may trying from Downloads > All Packages section there will be a dropdown where anyone login or the administrator can filter packages by Author. Please check and let me know.” This won’t help. As this is for example, things that I personall yhave uploaded. I want to know ANYONE has uploaded and assigned to a particular member.
Simon
I’d like you to be a little more elaborate on your reply please.
So in short, where we CREATE the packages and store them, there is no way to filter them by user to whom they are assigned.
So we have to create a page for admins, with a shortcode that they allows us to view ALL downloads assigned to each user? It’s not making sense to me.
If I post a login as a private reply can you setup the page on our site for me, so I can see what you mean? It’s basically a list of ALL Packages created and then a means to filter by user.
Simon
Surely that is the person who uploaded it and assigned it to the member – not the member to whom it was assigned??
I don’t mean in that page.
I mean when the admins go to the Packages page, they can’t filter on anything.
Downloads All Packages.
How do they go to this area, and filter by Users… or how do they do they anywhere else??
It’s a major flaw for them as that’s where they add them all, so how do they now go to that page, and filter by the user, to see if that users has all the downloads they need?
Simon
OH sure thing.
So I imported ALL files that are Doc or PDFs into Packages using your tool.
But I’d like to, if possible, select a bunch of files, and move them into new PAckages.
So let’s say you see 5 download documents in PAckages.
I want to create “New Package”, and select the 5, and move them ‘into’ that New Package.
Is that possible or not?
Hi
I tried what I suggestd and it works just fine.
Second question: CAn I “move” Package downloads into Packages?
If you go to our main Packages page, tehre are over 160. Can we search for them, and then Move them “into” new packages?
If not, it’s no big deal.
WEll no that’s a bad thing, as that means in the main Downloads page that is for everyone to view Newsletters, those assigned to Health ad Safety are only viewable buy one person.
But I think I may know the answer.
Packages – when you upload multiple files to Packages, does the user see that Package as a list of downloads to view?
If yes, in theory that can be called Wallmart – Deliveries.
Am I right?
And are they assigned only to that person?
Where do I see those six items assigned only to him?
I think what you are showing there is downloads for ALL users, as the All Newsletters area.
I am talking about the downloads we assign to a Member only.
So CEO of Wallmart wants to see all HIS downloads.
But then he wants to see only his downloads for Delivery PDFs.
Can we do that?
Firstly. PLEASE make that private. you keep posting content that is private…
Also, I am so so so confused.
I’ve assigned downloads to the user. ONE download.
What you are showing there, how do I see how those 6 items are assigned ONLY to that one user?
I don’t know. If you login to the site with the test one I Sent you, you see the setup of the Dashboard.
We just want to have Categories listed in there. OR along the top. I don’t mind how.
PLEASE… can you just tell me how I do it. Im sorry to be rude, but I’ve asked this since yesterday, and still no definitive way.
you have a login to our account. If you can either show me how, or do it, so I can see on that Test user, the Filter, that would be fine. Thank you.