Managing users per category

[rolandd]

Hello all,

I am currently in the process of reviewing Phoca download to replace my Docman installation. One of the features I saw and like in Phoca download is that I can add users per category. This is a requirement for me. Now the problem I have in Docman and also see now in Phoca is that picking the right users to allow access to the category.

On my site there are about 30.000 users (a lot also spam ) but to have to select that from a multi-select list is basically impossible. A view where one can manage users per category would be a great addition I think. Is this something you can consider for the todo list?

[Jan]

Hi, yes adding so many users to one select box is impossible, so I think for site where there are so many users you need to make customization (and it does not matter which component you are using).

Maybe a small hope for you can be 1.6 (but this will take some time until it will be stable ) where users are to pasted to the select box, but you have a text form field with button to users list where the pagination is used (but I have still not tested if there will be a function to select multiple users with such behaviour so still not sure if this can solve such kind of problem )

Jan

[rolandd]

Hello Jan,

Thank you for your reply.

so I think for site where there are so many users you need to make customization (and it does not matter which component you are using)

Correct, as I now use Docman I have written my own component to handle users added to groups most like the way the J! user manager works. It has filtering/pagination and some columns with user info. Users are added by using AJAX call which uses the user input to filter. Since mootools and I are sworn enemies I have used jQuery . I wouldn't mind porting this to Phoca Download if you are open to integrating. I could turn this into a modal window also. This would allow me to work with just a single component rather than fooling around with some custom code.

Maybe a small hope for you can be 1.6

I am very much looking forward to 1.6 and the options it opens up but dreading the upgrade of my site, so many hacks

Let me know what you think.

[Jan]

Hi, for now I am overwriting components for 1.6 so I will not have any time to implement it (but you can paste the guide here to the forum, e.g. for other users needed such feature)

Yes, I know the problems with mootools. I have created many jquery improvements, but mostly because of conflict with mootools, they were not applied (the problem is e.g. modal box, if you are using jquery noconflict, it still have problems with modal box )

This is why e.g. plupload (multiple upload of files) is implemented since Phoca Download 2.0 (Joomla! 1.6) because with new mootools, there should be not so much problems as with old (but the modal still is in conflict with jquery )

Jan

[rolandd]

Hello Jan,

for now I am overwriting components for 1.6 so I will not have any time to implement it

I understand that, what if I would code it and donate the code to Phoca Download?

One more issue I noticed is with the Upload Rights. The same goes here for the access rights, with a lot of users this will be horrible to open In my case I would have in total 60.000 users loaded in the two multi-select boxes.

Let me know what you think of my proposal.

Regards,

RolandD