Title: user specific files
Last modified: September 1, 2016

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# user specific files

 *  [oga23](https://wordpress.org/support/users/oga23/)
 * (@oga23)
 * [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/user-specific-files/)
 * hi, thom.
 * please help as i think i will lose my mind – if that hasn’t happen allready 🙂
 * For weeks now i am trying to achieve what i believe is basically the same thing
   as discussed above. i have read your tutorials and most of the treads, i tested
   almost every file management plugin known to men and i am affraid my head will
   explode – you know, to much information 🙂
    and after every single plugin i have
   teste i come back to fileaway in hope that this time i will be able to get it
   done…but no…
 * the problem is that i have no coding skills and i just can’t get behind of it
   of how i could get it to do what i need it to do – from all the reading the only
   thing i know is it can be done with your plugin.
 * So what i would like to do is this:
    i want to build a webpage where every client
   that registers gets a profile. on this profile page there are four tabs – each
   for a different category. i managed to do that. now – for each tab(category) 
   i would like to be able to upload files(mostly pdf’s) that belong only to a specific
   client/user and that only this user can see them. and i as admin of course. then
   i would like those files to be listed in this specific tab. – i know that for
   each tab i will need a different shortcode in it, but the codes would be almost
   the same, the only difference would be in the category – meaning in the tab itself.
   for one tab i would like to have an option for users to upload files by themselves.
 * the question is how do i achieve this and how do i specify the user for whom 
   i am uploading a file for?
 * beacuse of my nonexisting coding skills i would really need a step by step guide
   on how to that so i would finally understand the process…
 * i am very sorry that this post got so looooong but i really don’t know what to
   do and who to ask for help anymore.
 * thank you for this amazing plugin and your time.
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/file-away/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/file-away/)

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 *  Thread Starter [oga23](https://wordpress.org/support/users/oga23/)
 * (@oga23)
 * [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/user-specific-files/#post-7518487)
 * please help.
 *  Plugin Author [thomstark](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thomstark/)
 * (@thomstark)
 * [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/user-specific-files/#post-7518488)
 * Tab 1: [fileaway sub=”fa-userid/cat1″ makedir=”true”]
    Tab 2: [fileaway sub=”
   fa-userid/cat2″ makedir=”true”] Tab 3: [fileaway sub=”fa-userid/cat2″ makedir
   =”true”] Tab 4: [fileaway sub=”fa-userid/cat2″ makedir=”true”][fileup sub=”fa-
   userid/cat2″]
 *  Thread Starter [oga23](https://wordpress.org/support/users/oga23/)
 * (@oga23)
 * [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/user-specific-files/#post-7518489)
 * so glad to hear from you.
    do you mean ca1 is for tab 1, cat 2 is for tab 2, 
   cat 3 is for tab 3 and so one? how do i upload to this folders? can there be 
   only one base directory? thank you so much, thomstark…
 *  Thread Starter [oga23](https://wordpress.org/support/users/oga23/)
 * (@oga23)
 * [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/user-specific-files/#post-7518490)
 * now i get a dropdown list but nothing except cat2 is in it…i would need an users
   list.
    and when i upload a file(file up) the file is nowhere…
 *  Plugin Author [thomstark](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thomstark/)
 * (@thomstark)
 * [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/user-specific-files/#post-7518491)
 * Those were examples. The key is to use “fa-userid” in the sub then whatever category
   directory you want in whatever tab. This will create a directory for each user
   based on their user id.
 * You can use any of your 5 base directories, and extend it with the sub attribute.
 * I thought you wanted the users to upload their own files. If not, just give yourself
   a fileup shortcode pointing to the base directory with a showto=”administrator”
   so only administrators see it.
 * All of this is explained in the documentation provided with the plugin. See the
   Dynamic Paths tutorial for further help.

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 * Last activity: [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/user-specific-files/#post-7518491)
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