View other user posts in frontend upload

[f16jack]

I have two levels of users - basic registered and Special (author, editor and publisher).

Through the front end menu, I allow only the Special users to see the upload menu item and to upload.

This Phoca Download » User Upload menu item shows each user only the articles that they have uploaded. It does not give any visibility to articles uploaded by the other Users.

I would like to give these Special Users the ability to see these other articles and to unpublish them on the front end through Phoca Download » User Upload menu. How do I do this?

Thanks.

[Jan]

Hi, not sure what you mean with articles, Phoca Download manages the files.

In Phoca Download you can set rights for the user groups:

- to upload files
- to delete files
- to see/access the files.

So each user who have rights to access files, can access it, even it is uploaded by some other user

Jan

[f16jack]

I'll try to explain a little better.

I am a superuser.

I have other users who are special (authors, editors, publishers).

I occasionally upload a document to phoca download. Everyone can view it.
The other users (who are special) can also upload documents. Everyone can view them.

When I go to load a new document, with a menu item of "user Upload" and a link of "index.php?option=com_phocadownload&view=user" the upload window opens. In this window I can upload a document, or with existing documents, I can Publish/unpublish, Delete, or Authorize/Unauthorize a document.

The problem is that on this upload window I only see the documents that I alone uploaded. I have no visibility (even though I am a superuser) into any of the documents that have been uploaded by any of my special users. (And they can't see any of the documents that I have uploaded)

We need to be able to see each others documents and have the ability to Unpublish, Delete and Unauthorize them.

Thanks.

[Jan]

Hi, yes, this is the right output - in frontend - even you are administrator, you behave like other users, you can only manage own files. To manage files of all other users, you need to do in administration (as the administration gives you more features for this).

So in frontend, there is no manage function for administrators, this all should be done in administration (this is because of duplicity of administration code and because of not making the component heave - to build duplicity administration area )

Jan