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To help organize and find uploaded photos and documents it would be nice to be able to create and name folders within the pictures and documents sections.

Thank you for an already great product.

Thanks for your input. This is indeed one of the enhancements we are considering for our Content management system.

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Dmitry Buterin, Chief Apricot

This ties in somewhat with a wish list item I wanted to propose with regards to dochandler or document uploading.

I am looking at various scenarious for document management that integrates with the password-protection feature of WA.

My wish would be to add the "membership level" property to documents as they are being uploaded (and this proposed sub-folder feature might help with that too!). This would allow me to control access not only to web pages on the site, but inserted documents too. Preferably you could give access to one or multiple membership levels. This function would allow me to have a pretty great rudimentary document management system without having to install/implement/maintain an inhouse digital library server (like Greenstone for example), as we don't currently have any staff/infrastructure to support that.

Right now, although I may insert a document (or an index list of documents) to a "Members-only" page, if I create a link to the dochandler URL for the same document in a public page, the document can still be opened by a non-member if they have access to the link ID. This is because the ID of documents is not attached specifically to a page on which it is inserted.

If there was access control on specific documents in WA then, in practice, I would simply create an invisible "index" page where I would insert all my member-specific documents. Then I would use the dochandler URL assigned by WA to create links elsewhere on my site.

For example, I want to have article abstracts available to non-members, but then have a link to the members-only full PDF or full-text content. If a non-member clicked this link, they should theoretically see a message that tells them "Only authorized members have access to this page".

Searchability of my "index" page and documents would then be handled by simply adding a customizable 3rd party search engine with password access to the member-specific page.

I'm not sure how this would be done on your end, as I'm sure this depends how your dochandler is integrated with your contact management feature and WA webpage storage.

Cheers,

Melanie

Canadian Paralegal Institute

Thanks, appreciate the detailed description.

By the way, I suspect search will be a much bigger hurdle as we would need to build a special API for that. (I might be mistaken)

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Dmitry Buterin, Chief Apricot

Hi Dmitry,

I was reviewing one of the articles on your techblog - a post about search engines from Alder Consulting.

 In their review of Spiderline, for example, the review says it supports "login to a secure site" but I guess that depends on whether WA is using a standard authentication protocol on your side (?)

I guess I should add that to the API wish list then? You were asking people about specific APIs they might want :)

Thanks,

Melanie

yes, if you could a link to their site (ideally where they describe their connection mechanism) to API page, it would be very helpful. (there is no single standard authentication protocol)

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Dmitry Buterin, Chief Apricot

Hi Dmitry

They really don't seem to provide any technical specifications around this on their website (I will try to contact them). I'm not a current customer of theirs, so I'm sure they have more technical documentation available to billed users.

Here is some info on their product promo pages that might be worth perusing initially, and I'll see what I can find out:

http://www.spiderline.com/features/

http://www.spiderline.com/customers/

 

OK, thank you.

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Dmitry Buterin, Chief Apricot

Our site has an increasing number of photos, artwork, and documents for different purposes. Being able to specify folder locations for different types/purposes of files would be helpful. (e.g., conference related files in one location, policies in another)

 Would make it easier for site-managing members to locate relevant material.

I concur. Being able to set access levels to at least folder directories might serve useful workaround for my desire to upload various documents and images for members-only access. I want the relevant URL to only work for members-only.

I concur. Being able to set access levels to at least folder directories might serve as a useful workaround for my desire to upload various documents and images for members-only access. I want the relevant URL to only work for members-only.

Another vote for being able to extend restricted access to uploaded documents.

In the members areas we show tutorials and would like them only available to paid members.  Restrictions apply to any web page we create and while they don't apply to the images included on those pages, the images without the text is not much good.

However, if we were to load pdf's or videos, even though you have to get into the members areas before clicking the link, if someone then posts that link on another site, there is no password protection for those documents.

(I thought I had posted already on a similar topic, but can't find the other topic . . . )

I vote for a folder system for pictures and uploaded docs, and thanks for pointing out that uploaded docs to restricted areas are NOT actually restricted on the web.

Guess I will put those in google docs to restrict access in the meanwhile.