[Chuck Rybak]

Hi folks: I know this is mind-numbingly basic of me to ask:

Is there any capacity to upload/share documents in cbox, or is that something I’d probably end up using dropbox or something similar for?  I’m using cbox to host a lot of project work for a class I’m teaching, and I could see some groups wanting to share a file that wasn’t necessarily created as a cbox Doc? Can you attach something to a doc or even a discussion forum? I see I could attach something to this post, for example, but don’t see at my site how to add that option.

After looking around, my feeling is my students couldn’t, for example, upload and share a “kmz” file so they were all working with the same document. If I’m wrong about this, can someone let me know? (cbox is great, by the way; it has everything I need except this one thing I’m asking about here.)

[Gary Davis]

I had a similar question. It seems CBOX is using a plugin (or code)  that allows attachments in forums which would be a great start.   Just a hint as to what plugin was used would be perfect.

[Chuck Rybak]

Thanks for saying that, Gary. I looked in the options for the current “Forum” preferences, but don’t see anything there, so it must be something else. Maybe a different forums plugin? Well, I’m sure we’ll find out soon!

[hoenera]

Hi, I don’t know If I’m fully understanding your question.

I’m using a buddy press doc for my office hours, I’ve set it up so all the students can edit the document (to add their name/info).

That document has a url, so couldn’t I just use <a href=””   in a topic to call up the doc? I may be missing exactly what you’re trying to do with the documents.

Also may not be to the point, but in my classes, students are posting .pdf all the time, I’d love it if there was some way to make commenting possible at that level (where the pdf is open in our browser) I’m quite sure THAT’s a WP question, not a Cbox question.

Good to see more folks are using WP for courseware!

[Gary Davis]

This Plugin has the right lineage but I have yet to try it: Forums Attachement for BuddyPress  It seems to require a bit of tweaking that can be found at the Plugins website.

[Chuck Rybak]

Gary summarized my question more clearly that I explained it: I want users, in discussion forums, to be able to upload attachments.

I just tried the  Forums Attachement for BuddyPress plugin and it didn’t work. I went to the site, which is no longer supported, and it looked like some editing of code was required.  I also tried the plugin “U BuddyPress Forum Attachment,” and that made things worse.  I’m sure there’s something–I’m just confused by the integration of WP/BuddyPress/Cbox in one place.

 

[Gary Davis]

Ditto Chuck.

Hoenera.  How are your students posting documents (pdfs) within a group?  In CBOX (a pretty good example of what we are trying to set up) the only place to upload any document is the forums “Attachments:”  For reference, I am not on multisite so that may be why we seem to be venus and mars here.

[Chuck Rybak]

Gary, I just used the “GD bbPress Attachments” plugin and it worked. In the “settings” I checked “always include” on the bottom left column and, although I’m sure exactly what I just did, I was able to upload a Word document.

[hoenera]

Gary,

They’re not uploading pdf with groups. I am on multisite, and each class has it’s own site. Students are uploading PDFs of work there. Once something’s in the media library, it’s got a URL, so you can reference it from pretty much anywhere. Multisite works quite well for us in this regard. We have one site for all Graphic Design students, and course sites, as individual sites. Have been doing this for several years and it’s great. The part we’ve used least, and we have had buddypress running for quite some time, is groups and forums.

Apologies to the degree that ran off topic.

 

 

 

[MySchoolStuff]

Courseware, which should be launched next month some time, is catering for cloud-based file management within groups. I’m not sure how compatible it will be with CBOX though.

[Ray]

Hi Gary,

commonsinabox.org uses “GD bbPress Attachments” for forum attachments.

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