jeynon

Thanks David. Will look at getting it installed this afternoon. Security scan happening on the site this morning. Question: will the Example plugin install even if we have no FTP access via WP? I don’t know if that is reaching back to your server or installing something from the original install of the main plugin…

https://in-peds-devwp01.pediatrics.iupui.edu/faculty/test-page/
Ok so we have our multisite up and moving. I have this page showing 13 docs of all types that have an att cat=”mentoring”. I have one more file (A picture of will smith) also marked with att cat=”mentoring” in Site_ID=1 (https://in-peds-devwp01.pediatrics.iupui.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/WillSmith.jpg)
I have tried the shortcode:
[mla_gallery post_mime_type=all attachment_category=mentoring link=file itemtag=”ul” icontag=”li” parent=”all” site_id=”all”]
This will indeed show me all 13 that I have on the parent site but I do not see Will Smith! Thoughts?

Hey David… I just got back from a month long leave from the computer so I am just now getting back to this! Where do I install the Dev copy for testing?
Thanks!

Thanks! The website moved servers so we are rebuilding the multisite on a new server. I will get to testing when the new build is stable. Thanks David! This is great!

This is wonderful! The multi site that we are using it on is currently moving servers so it will be a few days before we get it up and running again. I will keep you posted! THANKS!
Jon

Thank for the update David. I can see how the IDs will cause confusion.
One thought: As a way to keep the results separate (and therefore away from ID clashing) could you just store all the results in different arrays of results. Then you could merge them into one group.
Logic:
I search for the phrase “P&T” throughout all sites. You start with blog_id i and run through them i++. Each group of results you store individually. At the end you simply merge them together (alpha or whatever you want). Are you laughing about how simple I am trying to think that is ??
Jon

Oh we will ALWAYS be running the most current WP build…

David, we have 23 depts in the SoM here at Indiana University plus many other centers, libraries, etc… I would say we could approach 30+ multi sites/

Yeap David, you got. We did a scope creep on you from my first post to my second!
In a perfect world we would like to be able to define which sites we would want to aggregate from. site=site A,site B or site=site A or site=ALL. If you don’t define site it assumes we looking at our own media library. I get the complexity of needed to aggregate the multiple sites ?? If that is not possible then even being able to call the master would be great.
Sorry for the confusion in the “hidden pages” section. If those att cats carry over to each multi site it would be nice if the admin of the whole build could have a way of seeing what all the items marked “P&T” might be across all sites. I assume the cloud concept would work for that. It could be on any of the multi sites. I simple meant that page would be hidden from public view since it would do no good for them, but would allow the admin to see what people are marking and why. This is going to be a build out to encompass MANY different departments in the school. Again, the school is interested in compensating you for your time! I really see this as a nice addition to the plugin as well and not just some random one off. Has no one ever asked for anything like this before?
Thanks David

So we worked on this a bit today and have come up with another solution and wonder if it is possible. We have used the Multisite Global Terms plugin and it indeed takes your att category tags across all sites. This is good for us since we don’t want one site calling them “student” and the other “students”. This way all sites will see the terminology used by all groups.
We are back to using the shortcodes to get those att categories together in one pull and out on a site.
1. Site A has 3 docs with the att cat “Students”
2. Site B has 5 docs with the att cat “Students”
3. Site C has 1 docs with the att cat “Students”
What if site A wants to show all docs across all sites with att cat “Students”
[cat=”students” site=”all” format=”bullets”] <- Simplistic I know!
Could we make a shortcode attribute that would aggregate all at docs with the same cats? As the multisite admin, I’d also love to have some pages (hidden to public) where I can see what everyone is tagging so I can control this.
Is this possible? Thanks!
Jon

• This reply was modified 7 years, 7 months ago by jeynon.

David,
Yes, you see where I am going.
So the School of Medicine has a large group of docs across all depts. Each dept has its own site on the multisite so they have their own library. We have made one ‘site’ that is just being used at the Master Doc Library.
The Network Shared Media allows them to see these documents in their own sites even though they live in the Master. We want them to link to them from there and not have copies everywhere.
As the keeper of the Master Doc Library I will have them organized in categories etc.. Having used MLA often I use shortcodes to pull out what I need in groups. What I would need is a way for MLA to be able to select which multisite library it is pulling from.
Example in lame man’s terms:
[pull all docs with category=”Promotion” as a bulleted list from siteid=4] siteid 4 in this case would reference the id given to the Master Doc Library site when it was set up by WordPress. The MLA would know to look in those tables and not the default site it is being called from.
This way the radiology dept’s website would always be calling the docs from the master. If I ever updated those docs they make their way out to all the multisites that have that shortcode calling.
I will be happy to help donate some money for some help. It seems like a very good solution for the School of Medicine.

So if I got into mla-option-templates.tpl I see the following lines

<!– see mla_gallery_shortcode() in media-library-assistant/includes/class-mla-shortcodes.php –>

<!– template=”default-open-markup” –>

It seems my page is putting <p> tags around the first set of comments but not the second. If I remove the first set of comments I no longer see what I see below. I will simply remove the line. Yes, I am using the default style. I wonder if it has to do with interaction with some other plugin. I have used your plugin on many other sites and not seen this problem.

<p><!– see mla_gallery_shortcode() in media-library-assistant/includes/class-mla-shortcodes.php –></p>

Thanks David. I completely cleared the cache in all browsers that were having that issue and it resolved. I will have the client dump the large pdf but I haven’t even seen it happening after I cleared cache and ran Firefox in private browsing, where it worked perfect.
LOVE the plugin. My client has unlimited needs for this!

So in looking at all of our shortcode, they all appear just fine. I do notice the client is using the full name of the categories and not the slug name. Would that do it? They have a lot of shortcodes so I don’t want to have them change until we know something. How about the blank post_mime_type

Here is an example of their shortcode:
[mla_gallery attachment_category=’Maps of Key Resources’ mla_align=’left’ post_mime_type=” mla_markup=’iconstitletop’ mla_style=’pushleft’ link=file columns=2 mla_viewer=’true’]

Jon

Thanks David. I handed the project off to the client to fill in content so there is a good chance the have improper syntax in some shortcode somewhere. I will have them review and see if we can find it!
Thanks for your response.
Jon