Hi Brian, I would suggest enabling the option for users to upload content into specific folders (its a CMS, let authors and editors manage and upload content!!) - but incorporate Folder Authorizations (which will control which folders specific groups of users can upload to and access) I believe folder authorizations should be available for use in 7.5, but its been some time now since ive used that version - so dont quote me on it!!
I would also suggest having a look at the 'text editor' general settings folder option for each folder.. this checkbox will control if users have access to folders within the Text Editor. As a rule of thumb, any 'System' folders (which contain code, scripts, background images, styles etc) should not be made available via the Text Editors for authors for obvious reasons! Ive found that messing around with files and folders with RQL very messy.. try to avoid it if at all possible! Cheers, Kim On Dec 16, 6:25 am, Brian <[email protected]> wrote: > I just recently inherited the RedDot 7.5 system at the university > where I work after the previous web manager left. > The question I have is the process that others use for uploading > files(images, PDFs, etc.) to be used on pages. > > We currently have folders created for each department that has a site > in RedDot under Administer Project Settings->Folders > They send us the files they want to use and we put them in their > folder then they can access them for use on their page. > We get a lot of requests for uploading files and I wondered if there > was a better way to do this. > > I was told that the reason it’s done this way is because the > individual editors in the departments don’t have access to these > folders and we wanted to maintain a consistent naming structure for > the files. > I thought about writing something in PHP to allow the user to login > and upload files to their folder, this would use a admin account > behind the scenes to FTP the files up. The only problem with this is > I’m sure there are entries written to the database when these files > are uploaded using the SmartTree and I wouldn’t want to get anything > out of sync. > > Is this a job for RQL? How is everyone else handling uploading user > files? > > Thanks, > Brian -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RedDot CMS Users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/reddot-cms-users?hl=en.
