Okay, so after talking with support this is not something that can be easily done within the comp, so I had to come up with another solution and here is what I came up with.
WARNING: This change does require you to change a core file. Before you make any changes be sure to make complete back ups, I am not responsible for any crashes or issues that occur on your system due to this change.
So here is where I was struggling. Using our old system we would transfer files between our company and the clients using a "briefcase", RSFiles! was the first comp that I found that allowed for personal folders and allowed for the same files (or same named files) to be uploaded. The current comp as written makes it very difficult to locate a users folder unless you knew their USER ID, and in a case where you have thousands of accounts, this could get a little dicey...
To start, I am currently using Joomla! 2.5.4, I have not tested it with any other builds so
make these changes at your own risk.
First to start, you need to know the location of where RSFiles is storing the briefcase folders. In my example I am using WAMP so the file location is local, but yours will be different.
So here is where my files are being store:
D:\wamp\vhosts\site_com\downloads\briefcase\ (which is translated to D%3A%5Cwamp%5Cvhosts%5Cfsi-inc_com%5Cdownloads%5CBriefcase%5C
You can find your location by clicking on the "Set Briefcase Folder" (
as a side note the location should be shown somewhere in the settings rather than having to go into "set" option to see it).
Once you have the location we are ready to get started. (Refer to
WARNING at the top of the page).
The file we are going to change is the edit.php template file and is located in:
\administrator\components\com_users\views\user\tmpl
This is a fairly small change change but you are going to want to scroll down to the bottom of the file (on mine it was about line 76 and insert the following code as the list item, but before the form.token task.
Here is the piece of code that you need to add:
<fieldset class="panelform">
<legend><?php echo JText::_('COM_USERS_BRIEFCASE'); ?></legend>
<a href="index.php?option=com_rsfiles&task=files&root=briefcase_folder&folder=D%3A%5Cwamp%5Cvhosts%5Csite_com%5Cdownloads%5CBriefcase%5C<?php echo $this->item->id ?>">User Briefcase</a>
</fieldset>
So what we are telling it to do is create a link in the user profile "edit" form in the administrator view that adds a panel with with a link to the User Briefcase and it should look like this:
The last thing you will need to do is add the COM_USERS_BRIEFCASE="RSFiles! Personal Briefcase" to the bottom of your en-GB.com_users.ini in \administrator\language\en-GB
I hope this helps someone else and please if you have any questions I will do what I can to help.