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Admin users

Web File Share Admin Guide Articles

Admin users can: Manage user accounts, except their own and other admins' accounts. Manage roles. Manage user groups. Manage e-mail notification settings. Browse users' activity logs. Manage metadata settings. When configuring th...

File Encryption

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AES Crypt (http://www.aescrypt.com) is a file encryption software available on several operating systems that uses the industry standard Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) to easily and securely encrypt files. Quik File Share can use it to allow users to encry...

Running custom scripts when users perform various actions

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Custom PHP scripts can be automatically executed when the users perform one of the 57 monitored actions (E-mail_notification_system#Actions_keynames). For example, to automatically run custom PHP code whenever a file is uploaded, you can simply place a PHP fi...

The API

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Quick start for PHP developers Read the Authorization section bellow to understand the requirements. Follow “a new client application” Download and use the Web File Share PHP API Client library: https://github.com/WebFileShare/api-client Au...

Translating Web File Share

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Editing a translation Select a language by clicking on its name. The translation is split in several parts which refer to particular sections or features of Web File Share. Click the section you wish to edit and you will see a list of words and phrases. Sim...

Wordpress authentication

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This quick guide will help you configure Web File Share to authenticate the users against the database of an existing Wordpress (http://wordpress.org) installation. It has been tested with Wordpress version 3.0.1. Download plugins Download the file "http://...

Joomla authentication

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Web File Share can connect to "Joomla CMS" application to share its authentication system. So a Joomla user can access its Web File Share account without entering its username and password again. Before setting up the plugin, remember to change the username o...

Custom authentication

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There are two quick steps (that require PHP knowledge) to set up thirdparty authentication: Define the authentication plugin inside the file "/path-to-WebFileShare/customizables/config.php", at line 5. Here's an example for the LDAP authentication: $config['...

Hiding file types for certain users or groups

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Login as superuser, open the control panel and locate the ID of the group or user you want to configure the filter for. In most browsers, when you keep the cursor over a link, you will see the URL in the browser's status bar. You can use that to easily find th...

Character encoding

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As PHP 5 does not have support for Unicode filenames, Web File Share can handle filenames that use one particular encoding. By default, Web File Share is configured to convert the text to UTF-8. This allows the users to upload files with names in any language,...

Editing a user

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To edit a user account follow these steps: Open the control panel. Select “Users”. Select the user you want to edit. Click “Edit user” Make the appropriate changes in the form. Click “Submit” to save the changes.  

Accessing WebDAV

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As an alternative, Web File Share can be also accessed with a standards-compliant WebDAV application. This can be useful for managing the remote files as they are folders on the local computer. WebDAV client programs tested with Web File Share: Pro...

ImageMagick thumbnail generation and image preview

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Introduction Web File Share can make use of ImageMagick utility for generating image thumbnails and previews for PDF, PSD and other advanced file formats. ImageMagick also enables support for large (high-res) pictures in Web File Share. GraphicsMagick (http:...

File indexing and full-text searching

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Web File Share configuration You can enable the full-text file searching from “Control Panel” » “System configuration” » “Files” » “Indexing”. It is not enabled by default because it requires third-party software (Apache Tika). If you are running Tika in com...

Overview

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Most of the configuration is done from Web File Share's control panel. However, there are additional configuration options that can be set by editing the file “customizables/config.php”. If the files does not exist, you can simply create it. User Interface ...

Time zone

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When using Web File Share with a webhosting service, sometimes the server is located in a different time zone than you and your users. You can adjust the time difference by configuring Web File Share to use your time zone instead: Open the file "/path-to-WebF...

File preview

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Previewing documents The following file types can be previewed or opened with Web File Share by default: Image files: PHP GD extension: jpg, jpeg, gif, png, jpe ImageMagick: most known image file types Office documents: ...

E-mail notification system

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Configuration To be able to send e-mails from Web File Share, you need to either have PHP configured with “sendmail” or have Web File Share configured with an SMTP server. Do note that most SMTP servers require authentication, and to prevent spam and other at...

Deleting a user

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To delete a user account follow these steps: Open the control panel. Select “Users”. Select the user you want to remove. Click “Delete user”. Click “Delete” to confirm the user's deletion. Deleting a FileRun user account does not remo...

Counting file downloads

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Applies to Web File Share version (260213) To keep track of the files' download count, please follow these steps: Login as superuser and open the Control Panel Select "System configuration  » Metadata  » Fieldsets" and click "Add" Set the "Field set name" ...