How do I make the uploaded files on the forums downloadable for the registered members on the website ? There does not seem to be any option for doing so in the “Manage Permissions” .
Items like ‘txt’ and doc’ and ‘pdf’ files – which I assume is the sort of thing you mean – just need a standard link to make them available for download – although I see that a url to that is not being made available currently via the uploader plugin.
If documents not uploaded via the editor, then use a stanard link (highlight the text for the link and click on the link buttn to add the url).
But, the attachments section which will display beneath the post content will also allow the user to download the file for files placed on the server using the uploader plugin.
No currently, any upload is downloadable by any member that can see it… we do have an open ticket to consider something like that… but its not a simple as it seems – especially with images… if you can see an image, you can get usually get a copy of it despite protections… but something we will consider in the future…
well, looks like two different interpretations of your question! 
mine assume you wanted to limit it to only members… hopefully you will get what you wanted from one of them…
Yours is the answer I was looking for. I guess Andy misinterpreted the question. It’d be great if you guys can have this implemented soon because one of the ways for getting more users registered on my website is by asking them to register for downloading the stuff from the forums.
Before that, I’d really want to work a bit on the “Quote” functionality. At the moment, when you write something in the text editor below the quoted text, the new text somehow appears finally inside the quoted area. This is quite confusing. It’d be great if the user can see something like
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as you have in other forum softwares.
Mr Papa said
well, looks like two different interpretations of your question!
mine assume you wanted to limit it to only members… hopefully you will get what you wanted from one of them…
Again the quote functionality screwed up the post above. This problem needs to be sorted out.
I can open a ticket to get the notion of a permission for downloads of files on the table for discussion.
As to the quoting there isn’t much we can do about this. Behind the scenes, the editor is formatting the output as html. If you place the cursor inside what is a blockquote then that will just add text to the existing blockquote. And the blockquote button will be highlighted on the editor toolbar. Clicking on the blockquote button will end the blockquote and revert the current cursor position to a standard paragraph.
We have no way of knowing what the intentions of the writer are going to be. To force it back to a paragraph – even if we could – is likely to annoy a whole lot more users. As with any WYSIWYG type editor – it needs the user to drive it and determine what it is they want.
Yellow Swordfish said
I can open a ticket to get the notion of a permission for downloads of files on the table for discussion.
It’d be great if this can be done.
As to the quoting there isn’t much we can do about this. Behind the scenes, the editor is formatting the output as html. If you place the cursor inside what is a blockquote then that will just add text to the existing blockquote. And the blockquote button will be highlighted on the editor toolbar. Clicking on the blockquote button will end the blockquote and revert the current cursor position to a standard paragraph.We have no way of knowing what the intentions of the writer are going to be. To force it back to a paragraph – even if we could – is likely to annoy a whole lot more users. As with any WYSIWYG type editor – it needs the user to drive it and determine what it is they want.
Oh, I didn’t know that the quotation symbol in the text editor is being used for quoting here. That’s a bit confusing because that quotation symbol makes it look like the normal ” symbol.In some other text editors, the part which the user has quoted appears as in the darkened background while typing(as it does here in simple-press in the final output). If we can have something like that, it’d make things easier.
Changing the CSS styling for the editor is easy but.. be warned… due to an oversight on my part I have not made that ‘update safe’ yet so you would need to re-apply changes if you update the editor plugin.
But the CSS in question can be found at /tinymce/themes/advanced/skins/o2k7/ an the file in content.css.
I do have a ticket open to make this update safe at some point soon.
And as I said, we can potentially make it an option for ‘other file types’, but no so easy with images and media…
as long as that supports your needs, we will see what we can do…
looks like this will make 5.0.5 this weekend… just coded it up… as long as testing goes well that is…
but have to reiterate, it will only apply to ‘other file’ type downloads… and not images or media…
@Andy
Okay, I am in no hurry. I’ll wait till you make the update safe. Let us know whenever that is done
@Steve
Yes, I want it primarily for “pdf” files only.