sharing all users files

Hi Mareva,

Thanks for your question, I love getting feedback, and it helps me to make the product more useful.

If you uncheck ‘deny_public_uploads’ and the allow public uploads in the file upload tab then all non logged in users
will share the same files which will all land in the uploads/public directory.

This will have the following side effects:

1. logged in users will still have there own separate files under uploads/user_id/
2. non logged in users files are all shared / deleted etc.
3. The current Workflow stage for a non logged in user will not be remembered so they will always start at stage 0.

That may be ok for you if you only need this for non logged in users, but if you want both logged in AND non logged in users to ALL share the same files then that can’t be done
at the moment.

I will add an option to the workflow settings to make all uploads go to a specified common directory in a future release for you :)/
Probably in a day or two when I finish some other stuff.

I have pasted this into a support ticket so others will know.,

Thanks again for the feedback.

I should add here that allowing public uploads is dangerous, do you really want users to be able to delete each others files ?

lynton

this has been done in 1.2.6 you will be able to use

[wtf_fu_upload use_public_dir='true'] and
[wtf_fu_showfiles use_public_dir='true']

lynton

In my case Sir, i would like to display all uploaded files by different users. I just want to inform them who were able to submit but restrict their account from deleting the files. It is because whenever I enable public directory, all users can delete all the uploaded files which I don’t want to happen. Will this be possible Sir?.. Thanks

No , use_public_dir makes all users files go to the same place,

You could achieve what you want with your own php page that inspects the wp-content/uploads/ directory and displays the files under each users subdirectory. The subdirectories are the userid for each user.

Hope that helps

Lynton