FAQs (frequently-asked questions)

1. Log in as an administrator.

2. Go to your admin panel.

3. Click on the "User Management" tab.

4. Click on the "User" icon.

5. Fill in a username, password and email address for the user you want to create.

6. Click on "Add User".

1. Log in as an administrator.

2. Go to your admin panel.

3. Click on the "User Management" tab.

4. Click on the "Groups" icon. You should see a table containing the names of all the groups you have available.

5. Find the name of the group you want to add a member to, then click on the corresponding "Group Membership".

6. You will see a table listing all of the users currently in the group. Below that is an alphabet listing. Click on the letter that is the first letter of the users name, or click on the asterisk to view all users.

7. Find the user in the scrollbox below and click on the name to highlight it. (you can select multiple users by holding down the Ctrl key while you are selecting the names.)

8. Click on "Add user to group".


***remember that a user can be a member of more than one group. Adding a user to a new group does not remove them from previous groups.

1. Log in as an administrator.

2. Go to your admin panel.

3. Click on the "User Management" tab.

4. Click on the "Groups" icon. You should see a table containing the names of all the groups you have available.

5. Find the name of the group you want to add a member to, then click on the corresponding "Group Membership".

6. You will see a table listing all of the users currently in the group. Click on "Remove User" next to the user you wish to remove from the group.

1. Log in as an administrator.

2. Go to your admin panel.

3. Click on the "Content" tab.

4. Click on your downloads icon. (it may be labelled Downloads, UpDownload, or DownloadsPlus, depending on the needs determined for your site.)

5. Under Add Category, enter the name you want for the new folder. If you have the DownloadsPlus module, you will need to use underscores (_) instead of spaces in the folder name.

6. Enter a description for the content of the new folder.

7. Click on "Add".

There are two ways you can add a file to folder for download.

The first way is through the website.

1. Log in as an administrator.

2. Go to your admin panel.

3. Click on the "Content" tab.

4. Click on your DownloadsPlus icon.

5. Choose "Submit A File" from the menu at the top of the module.

6. Enter a tilte for the file in the box marked "title".

7. Click on the "browse" button and navigate to the file you want to upload.

8. Choose the folder you want to add the download to from the drop down menu labelled "Category".

9. Enter a description of the file in the box lebelled "Description".

10. Click on "Add this file". The time to upload a file can potentiall be quite lengthy, depending on your internet connection speed and the file size.


The second way to add a file is through an FTP program. The process may vary depending on your FTP program. These instructions are based on SmartFTP.

1. Open SmartFTP

2. Open a remote browser window and connect to your website using the administrative name and password for your webspace that you received from your host. This is probably a different username and password from the ones you use to access your admin panel in your PostNuked site.

3. Open a local browser window so you can see the files on your hard drive.

4. Navigate in the local browser to the file you want to upload.

5. Navigate in the remote browser to the folder where you want to add the file.

6. Drag the file from your local browser to the temporary queue

7. Drag the file from the temporary queue to the chosen remote folder.

8. When the file upload is complete, log into your web site admin panel using your administartive usename and password.

9. Click on the content tab.

10. Click on the DownloadsPlus icon.

11. Click on "Auto Uploads Admin".

12. Under "Process Auto Uploads" choose the folder you uploaded to from the drop down menu labelled "Category".

13. Click on "Process" for file uploads only.

14. Go to the Downloads section of your website. The file you uploaded should be there.

1. Go to the downloads section of your site.

2. Hover your mouse over the folder you wish to grant users permission to view. You'll notice that when you hover, the folder link appears in the lower left corner of your browser. It will end with cid=(number). Make a note of the number. This is the ID number of the folder.

3. Log in as an administrator.

4. Go to your admin panel.

5. Click on the "System" tab.

6. Click on the "Permissions" icon.

7. At the top of the table, click on "new user permission". You will see the user permissions table with several permissions already filled in. You can use these existing permissions as a template for new permissions.

8. Scroll down to the bottom of your screen. You will see a blank row in the permissions table with fields waiting to be filled in.

9. In the user column, choose the user you want to grant permission to from the drop down menu.

10. In the components column enter the name of your module, two colons, and then the word Category, like this:

module::Category

your module name depends on your site configuration and needs, but it will be either Downloads, downloadsplus, or UpDownload. The names are case sensitive. For example, if you have downloadsplus, the component should look like this:

downloadsplus::Category

11. In the Instance column, enter two colons and the ID number you made a note of in step 2. If the cid was 17, you would enter

::17

12. In the permissions level column, choose the level of access you want to grant the user. If you want them to be able to only see and download from the folder, pick "read". If you want them to be able to add files themselves, choose "add".

13. Click on the "Add" button.