Hey gang,

I'm hoping to limit file access to groups of people. Basically I have people signing up for a year membership through the eCommerce add-on, and it drops them in a group that is given access to view the forums. We'll call them Paid Membership group.

Additionally, I'm using John's Front End File Manager to let users upload files and share information.

However, a Paid Member in the front end file manager only has the options to search all files, just theirs, or none at all. I want them to only be able to view files uploaded by users in that group.

1. Does advanced permissions let me adjust file access specific to a group? Or, is there some way I can make it so all files uploaded by people go into a file Set and then people in that group can only see files in that Set?

The editing is set to Mine, which is perfect.

2. Secondly, I'd also like to deal with the absolute URL given once a file is uploaded, as it could be handed around... I'm thinking about just editing the core file manager appearance to get rid of that field so it simply isn't shown to the user. Or, does anyone know of some way to make sure all files either uploaded by a group/ stored in a specific folder require login... ?

Any links would be great. Google is failing me, and all I can seem to get from the forum is posts relating to actual errors/ stuff breaking. :)

I'm going to activate advanced permissions and play with that now. The video (http://www.concrete5.org/documentation/how-tos/designers/using-advanced-permissions/) looks a bit out-dated and doesn't cover much... ;)

Thanks for any input!

Joel