bzcomputers
Customer
Just a couple observations and possible issues as I'm going through an upgrade from 1.3.8.
The thumbnails did not automatically show for any file. Going back into to each individual download, reuploading the thumbnail and selecting the thumbnail tick box does fix this but doing it for a large amount of downloads took some time. It also changed the "Latest Download" info so now all my downloads look like they were just added today.
After I finished adding all the thumbnails back I noticed that the actual thumbnail files are now being listed under files to download and being counted in total files. I'm not sure if this was an oversight or intentional, but I believe they should not show or count.
If this was intentional can you point in the direction to at least be able to hide the thumbnails from being listed as a file to download? Most of my thumbnails only differ from my real downloads by the file extension name. I think having both files listed is going to quickly confuse and make my users unhappy.
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Since I'm here might as well mention this other thing...
Let me first say I haven't had long to play with the this new version, so my observation may be a little off.
I personally like for all users to be able to actually few the downloads page for a number of reasons. Probably the main one being SEO and allowing search engines to index the download pages. The way it was in the previous version (1.3.8) and still appears to be, is that if a user is not able to download, then that user is also not able to actually view the download page at all.
My solution in the past was to give permission to all users to download, thus allowing them access to the download page and then using a "is member" conditional around the actual file reference itself.
With the new changes I do see some new code in the dbtech_downloads_download_filebit template. It references an "else" in relation to the "can download" conditional which then just references the download file name unlinked. Kind of like what I was doing previously.
So, it appears that at one point you thought about allowing all users to be able to view the page also. Currently though the permissions are still blocking those that cannot download from accessing the download page at all. I just wanted to point this out in case you had intended it to be different, since I saw the "else" statement there.
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Edit: Updated observations.
The thumbnails did not automatically show for any file. Going back into to each individual download, reuploading the thumbnail and selecting the thumbnail tick box does fix this but doing it for a large amount of downloads took some time. It also changed the "Latest Download" info so now all my downloads look like they were just added today.
After I finished adding all the thumbnails back I noticed that the actual thumbnail files are now being listed under files to download and being counted in total files. I'm not sure if this was an oversight or intentional, but I believe they should not show or count.
If this was intentional can you point in the direction to at least be able to hide the thumbnails from being listed as a file to download? Most of my thumbnails only differ from my real downloads by the file extension name. I think having both files listed is going to quickly confuse and make my users unhappy.
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Since I'm here might as well mention this other thing...
Let me first say I haven't had long to play with the this new version, so my observation may be a little off.
I personally like for all users to be able to actually few the downloads page for a number of reasons. Probably the main one being SEO and allowing search engines to index the download pages. The way it was in the previous version (1.3.8) and still appears to be, is that if a user is not able to download, then that user is also not able to actually view the download page at all.
My solution in the past was to give permission to all users to download, thus allowing them access to the download page and then using a "is member" conditional around the actual file reference itself.
With the new changes I do see some new code in the dbtech_downloads_download_filebit template. It references an "else" in relation to the "can download" conditional which then just references the download file name unlinked. Kind of like what I was doing previously.
So, it appears that at one point you thought about allowing all users to be able to view the page also. Currently though the permissions are still blocking those that cannot download from accessing the download page at all. I just wanted to point this out in case you had intended it to be different, since I saw the "else" statement there.
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Edit: Updated observations.
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