Admins can't see uploaded files?

Hi Marcelo,

At the moment the backend “manage users” currently only browses uploads on a per user basis. You have to first select a user then browse that users files.

You may be able to find a plugin that allows browsing the uploads directory where all the files are stored. Maybe some of the Gallery plugins can do this. Otherwise a custom script to glob filenames and display them would be fairly easy if you have some php knowledge.

Its a good idea though, I may add this at a later time.

Lynton

Yes, please consider this a feature request. You have an advantageous position since WP-Filebase has been abandoned and WordPress File Upload plugin relied on it to allow browsing files. It’s a pity your excelent plugin doesn’t already provide this feature. You can even consider this feature like a cleansing option, allowing admins to view/browse/delete uploaded files without hassle nor even needing other plugins.
Hope you can get it working soon.
Best regards!

Just in case you haven’t already seen it , the “Manage Users” tab allows file archiving / deleting and browsing , just for individual users not for all users files collectively. You pick a user then browse that users uploaded files.

regards

Lynton

Thanks for the input, but when a workflow is not needed and you just let logged in users to upload files, i.e., pasting the two shortcodes in the same page: [wtf_fu_upload][wtf_fu_show_files], the Manage Users don’t show me the users or their files.
Anything going wrong? or intended behaviour?

I don’t need all the workflow set, just allow users to upload files; then allow them to list their files. And, as an admin, being able to view what have they uploaded. Is this possible with your plugin?

br, Marcelo

Good point, and one that has not crossed my mind before.

The “manage users” page is really “manage workflow users” page.

I will look at changing this, I think this area is in need of overall, and hey I have a user feature request now.

Until then a workaround would be to use a workflow with a single stage with the two short-codes embedded in it.

Yep, maybe when any given registered user uploads a file for the first time, some variable should be triggered to mark this user as elligible to show in your Manage Users screen.
I think you can deal with it with just using a mere usermeta value: if defined, the user has uploaded files.
And when all her uploaded files are deleted, the usermeta value may be deleted, thus hiding the user from the manager. A basic semaphor. That’s what I’d do. Not really sure if it’s too difficult to implement.

Or… you can simply check if there are files to show in the user’s folder. The only problem with this, is that if you have hundreds of users WITH lots of uploaded files, you can generate a high IO usage everytime that screen is loaded, even taking for granted the use of results pagination. That’s what I prefer the usermeta value in the db, you just cache the value whenever it changes and that’s it. And given that it’s an on/off value indicating if there are files or not, it shouldn’t change very often. ??