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File download notification

• • Curro Romero Jiemenz

    Participant

    # 2 weeks ago

    Hello,

    I would like to know if there is a way to avoid the notification of the files downloaded by the client to the administrator when it is a set of files uploaded for the same post.

    Currently the administrator receives a notification for each downloaded file. This configuration is as follows: wp customer area->notifacations->individual notification settings->file downloaded->mode->only the first time

    You want to get: Notify the administrator only once when downloading the first file.

    Thank you very much,
    best regards
  • Thomas

    Keymaster

    # 1 week, 5 days ago

    Hello,

    Unfortunately, this is not doable for now. “File downloaded” notifications depend on each attachment from a private file post. So, if you created a private file post with 30 files attached, and select the option “only the first time”, you’ll actually get up to 30 notifications.

    —

    However, WP Customer Area is almost always extendable and this should probably be done by code.

    If you have few development skills, you could try solving this programmatically. Else I would recommend hiring a webdeveloper from your region. This kind of customiztaion request goes outside of our support scope, so we won’t be able to help more than giving a few tips:

    • you could create a custom code snippet and create a function bound to “cuar/private-content/files/on-download”, with a higher priority, and increment the download count for the clicked attachment
    • this means the notifications will then not be sent because the count would be 2, instead of 1

    Note that this code isn’t tested, but just written as a guideline example. Please do no try that on your live site.

    <?php
    /**
     * Change the behavior of "only the first time" option (per attachment), to send only the first time per private file
     * post
     *
     * @param int                   $post_id
     * @param int                   $user_id The user who downloaded the file
     * @param CUAR_PrivateFileAddOn $pf_addon
     * @param string                $file_id
     */
    function wpca_send_file_download_notifications_once_per_post($post_id, $user_id, $pf_addon, $file_id)
    {
    	$notification_id = 'private-file-downloaded';
    	$notif_settings = $this->no_addon->settings()->get_notification_params($notification_id);
    
    	/*
    	 * if only the first time is activated,
    	 * - we'll loop through all attachments from the post if the current has its "download count" to 1 (= first time
    	 * downloading this attachment)
    	 * - If one of attachment already has a count >1, then we increment the download count of the file to 2
    	 * - next function sending emails will bypass sending notifications
    	 */
    	if ($notif_settings['mode'] == 'first')
    	{
    		$attachments = $pf_addon->get_attached_files($post_id);
    		$count = $pf_addon->get_file_download_count($post_id, $file_id, $user_id);
    		if($count === 1)
    		{
    			foreach ($attachments as $attachment_id => $attachment_data)
    			{
    				$count = $pf_addon->get_file_download_count($post_id, $attachment_id, $user_id);
    				if ($count >= 1)
    				{
    					$pf_addon->increment_file_download_count($post_id, $file_id, $user_id);
    					return;
    				}
    			}
    		}
    	}
    }
    
    add_action('cuar/private-content/files/on-download','wpca_send_file_download_notifications_once_per_post', 5, 4);
    add_action('cuar/private-content/files/on-view', 'wpca_send_file_download_notifications_once_per_post', 5, 4);

    I hope that helps.

    Regards.

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  • Curro Romero Jiemenz

    Participant

    # 1 week, 5 days ago

    Hello,
    Thank you very much for your reply. It is very helpful the support you give.

    I will try to do what you are telling me by following the steps given.

    Best regards.