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Offline MarcusJ

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A suggestion, and a question
« on: December 06, 2009, 02:30:18 am »
Suggestion:

We just switched back to SMF after being away for a couple months.  I noticed that your downloads mod has evolved enough to fit our needs.  So I downloaded the free version, and have spent a number of hours setting up all of our categories, and prepping to go live with it.  We have every intention of buying the pro version because we need images uploaded with our files.

I have added over 200 categories to our system, and today I went in to test some things.  I noticed that the 'my files >add a download' drop down area that allows you to select a category is very confusing.  As I mentioned we have many categories.  There are many which are similarly named.  The drop down list could be organized much better.  Maybe alphabetically?  The best option would be to have it display categories in the same manner SMF displays boards in the quick moderation drop down.

Is this an improvement which you would be willing to implement?

Question:

In the Pro version, is it possible to display a thumbnail of an attached image on the category listing index?  What I would like is to display it like this:

Title THUMBNAIL   Views    Downloads     Filesize   Date     Comments   Membername   Options

Thanks for your time.

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Re: A suggestion, and a question
« Reply #1 on: December 06, 2009, 10:14:09 am »
1. We can develop a better category ordering system for adding/editing a download and mimic the way that SMF does it when selecting a board from a dropdown.


2. Yes we do have thumbnail support on the category listing which can be turned on or off. Demo of this feature can be found at
http://www.smfhacks.com/storedemo/index.php?action=downloads;cat=1
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Re: A suggestion, and a question
« Reply #2 on: December 06, 2009, 04:10:17 pm »
That is great news.   I should have looked at the demo a little more closely before asking.  

My partner just purchased Downloads System pro and installed it on the site.  I have to say that I REALLY like it.  You guys have done a great job with it.

1. We can develop a better category ordering system for adding/editing a download and mimic the way that SMF does it when selecting a board from a dropdown.

I know this will probably require some hours of work on your part.  I was wondering though if you had any idea what kind of time frame this would take to implement?  I know in your business it is hard to put a time on things, but I just want to know whether or not I should take the time to rename a couple hundred categories so the listing makes sense... Or if I should hold out and wait for the new functionality to be implemented.

Edit: I have a couple more observations or suggestions for future versions.

When a category has three or more subcategories the parent does not list a file total in the category listing.  It will show '0' no matter how many files are in the categories below.

In the Pro version you can add a Topic Prefix.  I really like this feature.  I would be nice though if it could be set to use the category title by default.

It would be nice if one could create a parent category and restrict it so that no files can be added to that parent.  The way we had to lay out our system, we have sub categories three and four levels deep.  The ability to restrict file uploads to selected (parent) categories would be handy.


Thanks for your time.  I hope I do not offend anyone with the suggestions I listed above.  Your system is very complete, and robust.  I was hard pressed to find anything worth bringing up for improvement.

Cheers!
« Last Edit: December 06, 2009, 04:51:46 pm by MarcusJ »

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Re: A suggestion, and a question
« Reply #3 on: December 06, 2009, 10:09:13 pm »
When a category has three or more subcategories the parent does not list a file total in the category listing.  It will show '0' no matter how many files are in the categories below.

Check "Counts child categories downloads totals." in settings. That'll fix that problem.

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It would be nice if one could create a parent category and restrict it so that no files can be added to that parent.  The way we had to lay out our system, we have sub categories three and four levels deep.  The ability to restrict file uploads to selected (parent) categories would be handy.

You can. Just change the permissions for the parent board to 'denied' for all groups and then set the child groups permissions to whatever you require. I do this on my site already at http://www.furcartzone.com. It works great.

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Re: A suggestion, and a question
« Reply #4 on: December 06, 2009, 10:18:30 pm »
I can probably add the category dropdown improvement sometime next week.

Subcategory total counting goes for one level deep I can add support for more than one level deep if needed.
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Re: A suggestion, and a question
« Reply #5 on: December 07, 2009, 01:48:03 am »
Thank you.  The file totals aren't that big of a deal, just an observation.  :)

I can't wait to see the category listing improvement.  Thank you for being such a pleasure to deal with.

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Re: A suggestion, and a question
« Reply #6 on: December 09, 2009, 06:58:34 pm »
Added the category dropdown menu improvement on add/edit download page.
Took about 2 hours to figure it and getting working correctly
End Result
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$finalArray = array();
$parentList = array(0);
$newParentList = array();
$spacer = 0;
for ($g = 0;$g < count($parentList); $g++)
{
$tmpLevelArray = array();
for ($i = 0;$i < count($context['downloads_cat']);$i++)
{
if ($context['downloads_cat'][$i]['ID_PARENT'] == $parentList[$g])
{

$newParentList[] = $context['downloads_cat'][$i]['ID_CAT'];
$newParentList = array_unique($newParentList);
$context['downloads_cat'][$i]['title'] = str_repeat('-', $spacer) .$context['downloads_cat'][$i]['title'];
$tmpLevelArray[] = $context['downloads_cat'][$i];
}
}

// Check Top Level ID_PARENT
if ($parentList[$g] == 0)
{
$finalArray = $tmpLevelArray;
}
else
{
$tmpArray2 = array();
for($j = 0;$j<count($finalArray);$j++)
{
$tmpArray2[] = $finalArray[$j];
// Find Parent good Now we just insert the records that we found right after the parent
if ($finalArray[$j]['ID_CAT'] == $parentList[$g])
{
for ($z = 0;$z < count($tmpLevelArray);$z++)
{
$tmpArray2[] = $tmpLevelArray[$z];
}
}
}

$finalArray = $tmpArray2;
}
$tmpLevelArray = array();


if ($g == (count($parentList) -1) && !empty($newParentList))
{

$parentList = array();
$parentList = $newParentList;
$newParentList = array();
$g=-1;
$spacer++;
}
else if ($g == (count($parentList) -1) && empty($newParentList))
{

}

}

$context['downloads_cat'] = array();
$context['downloads_cat'] = $finalArray;
Added to 1.1.10
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Re: A suggestion, and a question
« Reply #7 on: December 09, 2009, 10:07:12 pm »
That is really awesome!  Thank you so much for changing it.   Can't wait to see the new version in action.

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Re: A suggestion, and a question
« Reply #8 on: December 09, 2009, 10:23:23 pm »
The new version has been released and can be downloaded in the download forums for the Download System
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Re: A suggestion, and a question
« Reply #9 on: December 10, 2009, 03:00:48 am »
Cheers!  I'll ask Kristof to come over here and grab it. 

Thanks again!

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Re: A suggestion, and a question
« Reply #10 on: March 28, 2010, 06:48:38 pm »
Just installed the newer version with the dropdown improvements.

This is awesome!!!!


Makes life much easier )especially as I have some of the same names in different categories and was always iffy getting the right one)

 

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