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How does this problem interact with your under development addon referred to in post “Notifications for categories” by djwphoto – see below (from one month ago) ?
ie will that addon recognise WP Download Manger “category” values so that I can define a notification based on the ‘new package’ event and then using its “category” I can send that relevant notification message to a list of users that match that particular category.

Hi Nora
have a look in “v2.7.4 problems” posting that I created.
Nick describes where the composer has gone too in his replies to my upgrade problems.

Hi Nickolas
thanks
I found it via option 1.

And I eventually found the ‘yellow’ button on the published page. But when i clicked on it no new window (or tab) opened – just nothing, I also assume this ‘yellow’ button only appears on the published page if the logged in user is an administrator. I’m using chrome and v3.0.0 of your plugin

so it seems to me that there is no way to create the shortcode before adding just the ‘basic’ shortcode to a page and publishing that page. Once published you have to ‘edit’ the shortcode via the yellow button or the listed instance.

Thanks for the update
I confirm my uploads are working again and I now have a full list of plugin instances on the settings page.

But I still don’t have a ‘shortcode composer’ button on my settings page. I only have buttons for ‘Settings’, ‘File browser’, ‘view log’ and ‘sync database’

I have the same and more issues with version 2.7.4 – see my posting posting below.

I have just tried the F12 trick as per the above (I use chrome) and can’t see a yellow button anywhere. My ‘console’ tab window is totally empty. I assume you mean to do this when the admin settings page is open in chrome.

my instances of [wordpress_file_upload] shortcode have lots of parameters as generated by the shortcode composer in the previous version (which work – as per my post)

thanks finnj
just checking – did you receive the email I sent yesterday?

Hi finnj.

I’ll email you a login a bit later after I set up a test member profile. I’ll give you more details in the email.

What your suggesting is not quite what I need. I don’t want the member to have to have to change their profile to set the ‘active’ role. ‘Roles’ are not a concept members understand – its a administrator concept used for controlling what can and can’t be done. That is why I thought a shortcode parameter would be the way to go as then I (the admin) would be able to control which category is set by using the appropriate shortcode behind the relevant menu item.

Templates are good but I think I would need a ‘template per (active) category’ so I could change the member ‘form’ to suit their particular activity.
For example the current template, the form displayed by the ‘frontier-post’ shortcode has a heading ‘create a post’. I would need to be able to set this to (in my examples above to ‘create a member announcement’ and ‘create a Special Interest Group announcement’ respectively.
Similarly, at the moment anyway, I don’t need all ‘save’,’save and return’,’save and preview’ and ‘cancel’ buttons on the form. As all my ‘posts’ are to be published (ie no drafts etc allowed), I only need a button that says ‘Post member announcement’ (or what ever)and optionally another to ‘cancel.
I realize I can make changes to the to the template (and have done so by cutting out and changing labels in the template code) for these things to match one ‘active category’ but I can’t do that for two or more categories that become ‘active’ at different times to different (or the same) member. I can see that php code (if then else or case type of coding) could be written if there was a parameter on the shortcode that contains the ‘active category’ (by name is my preference, not id) but that level of php coding is beyond me at the moment.

I use “user role editor”.

I use menus to control what they do. So (if for example) they were a member of the management committee they could select (say) “create a member announcement” item from the ‘management’ menu (as displayed to them by their assigned roles) and thus I know what role is ‘active’ for that particular menu item and I can then set the post category that I want used (so later I can display posts for that category correctly on a members announcement area). That same person may also be a member of a special interest group (who are identified by yet another role) and needs to create posts under a totally different category to be displayed in (say) an area specific to that special interest group. Of course I can potentially have many special interest groups.

Hi finnj
My production site is https://www.kalamundamensshed.org.au and there is a little public information available there. But this doesn’t yet have any implementation of the testing I am doing.

I am doing my work on a development and testing site. I am happy to give you login access to this development site for a while if there is a way for me to send you login details privately.

I am not a php coder by any means but I understand enough to do a good job of cutting, copying and pasting of existing code. I have been a programmer in a previous life so i understand things i just don’t know the language and syntax.

I have indeed already modified the template to be a very basic form. That was before I found the way to hide things by role so I have probably overdone the code cutting. I want a really simple user interface which allows only the input and editing of a title and the post content to be available to my member. I did look at adding code to your beta template but it was beyond my skill set to do so. So if I can hide and set things by template coding then I’m certainly prepared to give it a go if I can get guidance on how to go about it.

Further to the above
I also need the edit/delete functions to be restricted to the ‘active’ role and not to a member username who might have multiple roles to fulfill. ie in this context he might be able to create posts under multiple categories (eg an all members announcement and one or more special user group announcements) and I want him to only be able to edit/delete posts within the context of the ‘active’ role.