folders for files and images?

Hello ggppk,

i appreciate your fast answers ! I have just following scenario about different people publishing content with downloads and image and should not see other people downloads or images and should not have a long list of existing downloads mixed with images to look over. Maybe they have one or more downloads to one content e.g. item. For the images it works well in different folders and i just wondered, if this would be possible to files too?

So this is a very common use of a content management system, i am sure many people are working like, what do you think?

Thank you and best regards, Macjoomla

Hello

1. about not seeing other's people files,
-- users cannot do that unless they have "View all Files" (in Component Permissions), by default only admins have this, check to make sure your users do not have it

2. about users seeing all their files (in the popup file management), well they can search by title/description or other filters,)

-- but the files are only meant for a single item, then i can understand why putting the in a folder per item will make it more convenient

-- but you will loose some advantages, adding them to the DB, gives you:

a. hit counting

b. can assign access levels
e.g. users can select access level for file
= who can download their file

c. easy searching for administrators in backend, and accounting, e.g. which items use the file, etc

d. re-usabilty of files (ok you don't need this as you said)

e. other that i forget ?

Hello ggppk, thanks again for your answer! Dit not know point one, thank you for pointing this out! Just thought, if i can see it, all can see it. Have much to learn about flexicontent

So this behaviour would be not as bad for pictures too, but then i wonder, if you could at least store images in different locations then files? Or even different locations for each added image or file field?

Best regards, Macjoomla

ggppdk wrote: 1. about not seeing other's people files,
-- users cannot do that unless they have "View all Files" (in Component Permissions), by default only admins have this, check to make sure your users do not have it

Hello

for making images galleries,
we recommend using image(/gallery) field in
- "folder mode"
- and not "DB-mode",

avoid DB-mode for images !!
unless you really need re-usable images

 
Macjoomla,

We have been discussing this ...

Added to Features ToDo list:

• User restricted to one Item (or more)
  Already possible now just need to add it to the global configuration
• Per Item Files directory
  Needs some work, 80% done now
• Per Item Images directory
  Already possible just need to tweak

The goal is to have all this happen automatically when the directory user registers/signs-up via the front-end.
They upload images - goes to their images folder.
They upload files - goes to their files folder.
User can only see and use their own files.
Just like other directory extensions.

This is now in the ToDo/Wishlist so now it is simply when, not if.

 

Hello kenmcd and ggppdk

Great news! Thank you for discussing and adding this to Features ToDo list. Looks as if you are even more then half on the way

Best regards and have a nice Weekend, Macjoomla