Creating and maintaining downloads
A download is an entry with exactly one file. You create it under Components → Fileshelf → Downloads → New.
Tab “Download”
- Category – the main category. It decides the address of the download, its inherited permissions and the folder its file lies in.
- Additional categories – the download also appears in the lists of these categories. Address and inherited settings still come from the main category.
- Description – appears on the page of the download. It is edited with the same editor as an article, with images, media and the editor buttons; content plugins work in it as in articles. If the field shows only an empty frame, the editor is the cause: check the editor under Users → your profile → “Basic Settings” and, with JCE, whether an editor profile is published and applies to your user group.
- Tags and fields as with articles.
Tab “File”
- Upload a file – the file is stored in the folder of the main category when you save.
- Or choose a file from the storage folder – lists files that do not belong to a download yet, such as ones copied there by FTP. Fileshelf reads the folder only when you click Show free files in the storage folder; the list shows up to 200 files.
- If the same file already belongs to another download, Fileshelf shows a note.
- Version – under “About the file”, free text such as
2.1. Visitors see it in the lists. In the Pro version the facts about the file stand at the top of the tab “Versions”. - License – appears there once an import from another download extension has created the field (Pro version). On the website it carries the label “License” in the visitor's language.
Allowed are the file types from Options → Storage → Allowed file types. Programs and web
pages (for example php, svg, html) are never accepted, not even in
names like report.php.pdf. Fileshelf also checks whether the content matches the extension,
and Joomla checks the file as well.
Tab “Protection”
Here you set a password for this one download (see Password protection).
Tab “Publishing”
Status, access level, language, start and end of publishing, author and counter. An unpublished or expired download does not exist for visitors – not even through an old link.
On saving, Fileshelf checks the permissions, whichever way the download comes (form, several files, upload from the website): only who may change the state in the category can publish – otherwise a new download stays unpublished. Only one's own access levels can be chosen, and an additional category only where one may create downloads.
The list
The list shows main and additional categories, version, access level and counter. You can filter by status, featured, category (main or additional) and level, access level, author, language and tag.
- Download in the backend – the link below the title fetches the file without counting it. The user needs the permission “Download in the backend” for it.
- Batch processing – set access level, language and tags, add or remove additional categories, move to another main category. Copying is not offered, because a file belongs to one download only.