I've been looking for a module that has user file area uploads for a few years now.. I finally found this one.. I think that the name is what has turned me off in the past.. I've always been looking for a "user file manager" or something similar. I had looked at the Speerio file manager some time ago, but it looks like Nik has stopped supporting it to be a full time member of the core team.
I have a few questions about the module and how it would function in my environment.. On my site, I have a subscription that people can purchase.. One of the benefits of this subscription is that I give users limited space on my server to store photos and other files to share in our forums. This space is access by a classic asp app I wrote and is housed at http://users.mysite.com.. All their files are access by going to http://users.mysite.com/username. I migrated to DNN January 1st. With that migration, my old way up allowing users to upload and manage their files has become quite cumbersome.. I'd like to intergrate this user space interface into my DNN portal, www.mysite.com, while still allowing access via users.mysite.com/username. It looks like the access manager module is what I need. So now questions..
From another post in this forum, it looks like the default naming convention for auto created folders is moduleid_userid.. Is this set in stone or can it be set to another value, like username or display name? My current naming scheme is username with spaces stripped out.
Can you set the folder to autocreate for only a specific role? I only want folders created if they are a member of the role of paid members. Is there any way to systematically delete folders with all subfoders and files if the user is no longer a member of the role?
How do the quotas work? Are they assigned to the folder or to the user/role? What I mean is, if I have 2 different roles accessing the module to upload files, can each role have a different quota? If a user is a member of both roles, how would the user's quota be determined?
Hi Shad,
The autocreate folder naming convention is currently hardcoded, however I have a seperate version of the module for a client where it was requested this be configurable to username. This change will be incorporated into the next "public" version of the module.
Autocreate is set on a folder. Multiple Roles can be assigned to that same folder. (Each "folder" shows up in the module as a top-level tree item). (These are standard DNN roles, so your paid-subscription roles will work).
Quotas are assigned per-role. Different quota amounts per-role are fine, but really only ideal for the AutoCreate folder-types. If they are AutoCreate folders, they will be different pyhsical paths, preventing one role from "filling up" a folder for another role.
The "My Folder" folder in the demo on this site is an autocreated folder (assigned to "Registered Users"), with I believe a 5meg limit.
Does the above answer all your questions?
Thanks for the reply.. When will that next "public" version be available? I'm ready to buy today.
So if I understand correctly, a quota is for a role.. So if I assigned the role that is my paid subscription 100mb limit, they collectively get 100mb, not 100mb each? The reason I ask is that a few of my members have paid for additional web space. I also have some members with lifetime memberships that I give 1 gb of space to. If I added these 2 instances to new roles, could I systematically give them their space.. Or would I be better off having a separate instance of the module?
Also, did you ever get unzipping working? That's a great feature to have. Not necessary by any means, but definately a "nice to have" feature. I'd like to eventually cut off FTP access to my server.
Quota is by Role, but for AutoCreate the Quota amount of 100Meg would translate to 100Meg per-person in that role...as each person gets thier own auto-created folder.
For those that have paid for seperate space, you can perhaps assign them a seperate amount...as Max Size Quota can also be assigned by User.
The next release will be within the next week, I am having a few integration issues of different projects still to be worked out. Currently however, all existing customers will recieve at least 1 year of free updates. The module is stable, but the features of the module are only at about 40% of where I want them.
Unzipping works in my development version. There are 2 issues to be worked on in order for me to enable it in the public version, I cannot confirm at this time if it will hit the next release.
In this latest public release, is autocreate creating folders based on username?
Thanks