Some pre-sale questions

Hello !

I would have some pre-sale questions. I’m considering buying your product for a school website, which needs to create accounts for its students, but also for teachers and administrative people.

For students, in each class, we would have some files in common (for example plannings, course of study, etc.) and some files specific for each students of the class (for example certificates, invoices, etc.).
We also have, beside students, teachers, and then administrators of the school.


1/ Is it possible to have something like this :

Each student has it’s own private area (its own folder), with its own files. Some of them are in common with the class, some of them are specific to only him.
So, we would have : Class 1 : class number 1 files + student’s specific files
class 2 : class number 2 files (which are different from class number 1 files) + student’s specific files etc.

And beside, each teachers and administrators would have their own separate and private folder.

It would also be possible, if it's simpler, to create one folder per person (for each student, each teacher and each administrator) with all the documents specific to each person, even if some students' documents would be in common and therefore in duplicate in each particular student's folder.



2/ You’re talking about role restriction. A lot of paid plugins work this way : roles are like levels of membership, for example level 1 to 10 (10 would be admin). Role at level 5 would have access to all files of lower level, + files of level 5 access.

This is not what I’m looking for. I need different roles, but not with an idea of hierarchy : each role would have access to specific folders (for example, there is no reason a teacher would have access to the invoices of a student).


3/ If I'm using the Google Drive addon, we are OK that all files are only stored and served on/by Google Drive, nothing comes to Wordpress account/host disk/etc. ? It’s directly Google Drive to the user ? I’m asking for speed reasons, as the school has a lot of students, classes, teachers, hence a lot of files to share.


4/ Are notifications working even if I'm using the Google Drive addon ? I mean, all files would be served by Google servers, so how would the plugin know when there is a new file uploaded available to the download ?


5/ Is there any visual indicator for unread/updated/new documents ?


6/ Is it possible to disable the "Download all" button on the default theme ?



Thanks for your time and your help !

Best regards.