Sam here from Creativeminds.
The CM Client Download Zone allows you to
create a personal and restricted document
repository for each of your site users for
specified user groups.
The site administrator can receive notifications
on new uploads and view them from the management
console as well as upload files for individual
users or user groups.
So once you install the add-on for the CM
Client Downloads plugin, go to CM Downloads
Pro on your admin dashboard and navigate to
user groups.
And this is where you can create exclusive
user groups to send files to based on who
is in the group.
These are examples of classes and the teacher
can send specific files needed only to the
users in those groups.
You can easily come back later to edit this
group or delete it.
You can easily add groups by entering a group
name and choosing which group members should
belong to that user group and then add the
group.
So now if you navigate to settings we're just
going to review some of the general settings
for the Creativeminds Download Manager plugin
that will be available with this add-on.
You can choose which file extensions are available
for upload, including url and shortcode uploads,
what categories will be required for the uploads
and you can also password protect the uploads
if you would like.
So our download manager gives you a ton of
options in terms of the different types of
files you can upload and also creates a way
for you to easily categorize them and then
send them to specific user groups or users
with password protection if necessary.
Please keep in mind that with this add-on
because we're turning this download zone into
a sort of dropbox, users can download and
preview files directly from the index page.
So next if you navigate to access under settings,
who can add new downloads, view downloads,
you can now choose some of your user groups
that you have created and give them specific
access controls settings.
Under notifications, now you can send additional
email notifications to all of the group members
if you have created a download and sent it
to a specific user group.
Every member of that group will receive a
notification and you can choose the default
text to appear in these notifications and
use our shortcodes to customize them with
titles, links, authors.
Under download zone you can see a list of
all of the downloads in the master dropbox
and you can easily filter by author and you
can also see the logs for how many times that
particular file has been downloaded.
Each user including the administrator can
reach their dropbox download zone by following
the permalink that you set for the index page.
So for example on this site our permalink
is resourcelibrary.
The admin download zone includes the master
dropbox or file repository.
The admin can preview and download files,
easily search for files, the admin can view
all of the recently uploaded files.
This makes it easy to immediately see those
files that were recently uploaded by any of
your clients or other users.
Over on the right hand side the admin can
upload a file to any of the user groups or
below that under find client, the admin can
click on the upload file icon and upload a
file for a specific user.
So only the admin and this chosen user will
have access to that file.
The admin can give the download a title, add
as many files as they would like, choose up
to three categories that that file belongs
to, include a description.
So for example the professor is sending a
graded midterm that was submitted through
the download zone back to the client.
Visibility can be set to only selected users.
In this case, only sam, the student and client
will be able to see their graded midterm because
this is a confidential document.
Then the admin can go ahead and add this download
and it will appear in both the admin download
zone and int he sam client download zone.
The admin can upload files to specific groups,
so for example if a teacher wants to send
a file to one of their classes they can create
a student group.
Cartography 101, choose 101 from this drop
down menu and the process for uploading these
files is the same for uploading for individual
users.
Every suer has their own download zone and
in this download zone they have access to
all of the downloads that were made available
to any of the groups that they are a part
of.
They also have access to any downloads that
the admin specifically sent to this user.
For example here under assignments we can
see that the admin, who in this case is the
teacher, has sent this user their graded midterm.
This is a confidential file that the admin
uploaded and sent to Sam, the user and she
has access to it on her dashboard, but none
of the other users can see this file.
This is a great way for you to exchange confidential
information with a range of users, for example,
for teachers or bankers.
Each user can also upload files that are available
to that user and also to the admin.
So this is a way for the user to also share
confidential files with the administrator
of the site.
The Client Download Zone is the perfect solution
to provide an exclusive file repository for
users on your Wordpress site.
Visit cminds.com to download the add-on today.
