Files management

General Overview

Download Manager is a DotClear plug-in willing to provide files sorted by categories to your visitors.
It is possible to customize how categories are displayed by adding a description for it. You can trim the size of the description by using the following link
Each files contains tags giving informations related to its size (in mBytes), date of release, or download counter.

"Files management" page

This is the page where you can create, modify or delete categories and shared files.

Category Management

Name

The name you will give your category or file

Description

The description of the category or file
File Management

Upload

This form allows you upload a file to the server. Browse to the file on your computer then click on "Send".

Description

here additional information on the file.

Name of the file + extension

Put here the name that you want for the target file.
Beware: You have to provide the name PLUS the extension.

File size

Information on the size of your file.

File Address

Put here the URL that you want for the file.

Update

This form allows you to update a file that already exist. To do so, browse to the category containing the existing file. Then clic on: "File Update and remote file" to access the update form. Choose the local updated file on your computer (the name of the new file must be the same as the previous file) by clicking "Browse" and "Send".

Add a bigger file than the authorized DotClear max size

DotClear unfortunatly doesn't support big file size. To avoid this limitation, this option allow you to upload your file in the /share/dlm/ by FTP and then add it with the administration console. It will then be added in the current category without using the embedded file upload function of DotClear. Beware: Do not create new categories directly by FTP, it won't be recognized by the plugin anyway. Only the files in the folder but not in the database will be displayed.

"Attach A file" page

Attach a file:

This page allows you to join a file to one or more posts, whether they are published or draft. To do so, just enter the post ID which you want to attach a file. In the case you want to attach it to several posts, enter all IDs separated with a comma or a space. To detach a file from a post, simply erase the post ID.

"Configuration" page

This page allows you to customize the display of the plugin for the public part of it. as well as defining the maximum upload size allowed for the server.

Maximum upload size allowed by your server:

Why this parameter? SImply because it is different for every server on which your site is hosted.
To know the value on your server, go to: this page and look for the variable named "upload_max_filesize".

Background color for the frame

This is to set the color of the frame when it is not highlighted by the mouse.

Highlighted background color:

This is when the mouse highlight the plugin frame. This option doesn't work with Internet Explorer.

Type of display for catefories and file in the public part.

With this parameter, you can set the display to:

Rendering order for element in the public part:

You can set this order to either:

Date formatting:

You can choose the date formatting for the files :