1) Use Docman for pdf uploads and display. You can restrict uploads by individual or by group.
2) Try JEvents for the calendar. The calendar is a component and the module will display upcoming events which can be configured as you wish. 3) Granular access levels are coming in Joomla 1.6, project to be released this year. In the meantime there are extension for this. 4) This depends on the developer. Docman and JEvents have been around for quite a while. If you haven't found it already, the Joomla extensions directory is located at http://extensions.joomla.org ________________________________ iTeachMe(TM) online learning system for Joomla!(R) web development See us on: Facebook, Twitter, YouTube ________________________________ From: Paul Lourd <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tue, February 23, 2010 8:17:31 AM Subject: [joomla] New guy - Looking for user upload strategy Forgive me if this is the wrong place to ask! Just found the NYC group, and hope to attend soon. I build/maintain a couple of church websites, and have been using PHP/MYSQL for some of the automation. Found Joomla, and looking to see if that will work for me, as I need to add the ability for church staff to add content, without my intervention. I took a Joomla course on Lynda.com which got me up to speed pretty quickly in general. Things I can't seem to clearly find searching through the doc and extensions/modules: 1) Would like to be able to lock down the secretary to only be able to upload to a specific category (weekly newsletters in PDF format). Then add a module that only displays articles in that category. Seems like upload/managing attachments is not as straight forward as it should be? Are there some recommended ways of letting end users manages file attachments? 2) Add a calendar, which display the next 'x" upcoming events on the right side, and links to a full calendar of scheduled events. Seems like there are a ton of add on calendars, which might you recommend? Or are most people using Google now, and just linking that in? 3) Are there plans to allow more granular security? Like user groups that can do/see certain things? 4) Just how risky are some of these add-ons? It looks like there is quite the market for these, and one hopes they are stable! Thanks much. Paul. _______________________________________________ New York PHP SIG: Joomla! Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/joomla NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online http://www.nyphpcon.com Show Your Participation in New York PHP http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php
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