Cluttered downloads

Hangin' Around Joined: Jul 25, 2009 Posts: 26

i dont really have an 'issue' but something i would like to enhance...
when viewing the download section on my site, everything runs together. not very user friendly. heres a link: [ Only registered users can see links on this board! Get registered or login! ]

i was wonderin if anyone knew a way that i could make each download/file appear in a new "story_page.html" or "OpenTable" as defined by the theme in theme.php. if you know what i mean. that would make it much easier to tell where 1 file ends and the next one begins. i get a lot of users sayin they cant find where to click to download the file. any help would be great. even if i just knew where to insert a <hr> or something in the code to separate them that way would work for now.
thanks all

Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2009 12:26 am

Sorry your link is to a restricted area so we can't view it.

Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2009 3:20 am

Although the theme is very nice Smile

Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2009 6:34 am

NSN GR Downloads might work better for you. I like the way it displays much better then the default downloads.

Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2009 10:57 pm

@jake. i totally didnt even think about that. i have it set so only registered users can access downloads.

thanks for the compliment evaders!

and thanks for the suggestion nuken. this is sooo much better. and it installed quick and flawlessly. only problem i have with it. is i set it so everyone can see the downloads, but it dont work. it still shows as restricted. but that is a distant issue.

thanks again for the suggestion. helped a lot.

Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2009 6:57 am

autonami, you have module permissions and then within NSN Downloads there is a way to set permissions for each download. I think you might be missing the individual download permission setting. Just modify the download(s) to whatever permission you desire.

Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2009 9:29 pm

thanks montego, after messing around with it for a minute, i figured it out. i had downloads restricted in the modules section. all better now. thanks for help guys.

Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2009 6:25 pm

Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2009 11:28 pm

ok. so ive just decided to go with RN 2.4.

i copied my DB and Files from my public site and cloned it to my local site ( with NSN Gr installed ) then... i copied the files for 2.4 ( local site ) and ran the updates. forgive me for my noobness. but i guess all the 'default' download module files were put back and i just see the regular ol download module. and it loads. - didnt test the files but it functions - then i proceeded to copy the NSN Gr files to the site ( still local ) i go to "downloads.html". - blank page. so i go to the install for NSNgr and try to do first time install... all FAILED. then i did a uninstall. via the nsngd.php setup script. then i did a first time install. status = success. then, copy downloads to NSN gr tables - success. went to "downloads.html" still blank page.

have you guys updated your RN with NSN gr already installed? if so, what step did i miss here? and what can i do to fix this.

thanks for your time.

ps. i didnt really go to "downloads.html" of course. its replacing the module address i typed with downloads.html

Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2009 3:36 am

You will need to get the NSN gr downloads shortlinks files from here [ Only registered users can see links on this board! Get registered or login! ]

Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2009 2:52 pm

yeah sure. but thats gonna fix the fact i get a blank page when i go the downloads module

the nsn Gr blocks work. and i can actually go to each individual download profile by clicking the direct link to it. but when i got modules.php?name= downloads i get a blank page

Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2009 2:55 pm

That is if you are using shortlinks. If not, you would not need to use the shortlink file.

Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2009 2:57 pm

i wasnt using shortlinks before

Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2009 3:05 pm

the reference to Downloads.html made me think you may have been because that is what shortlinks changes your downloads url to.

Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2009 3:09 pm

ohhh yea. i was just saying when i typed my post i was saying when trying to acces modules.php?name= Downloads this forum was changing it to downloads.html even though i meant modules.php?name Downloads

Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2009 3:23 pm

The only time I had a similar issue was when the files didn't upload correctly. I would suggest try to upload NSN GR downloads once more. Your database files should be fine if you got success.

Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2009 6:03 pm

yeah i dont get it. the database seems to be fine. and like i said, i can go to each individual files download page. but when i go to 'downloads' i get blank page. and i tried to upload the NSNGR files again. and no go.

im going to try to uninstall NSNGR place the default downloads. then upgrade. then install NSN GR after installing 2.4

Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2009 7:27 pm

ok. i did just what i said. uninstalled NSN GR.. set it back to default downloads module. then upgraded to 2.4 then installed NSN Gr. and still blank page when goin to the downloads module. maybe there is a compatibility issue with 2.4

go here [ Only registered users can see links on this board! Get registered or login! ] and click downloads.

Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2009 9:14 pm

ive also tried installing NSN GR to a fresh install of RN 2.4 and i get the same thing happening. it installed perfectly fine on 2.3

Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2009 9:51 pm

At the top of the downloads index page find

Code:

if(!isset($op)) { $op = "index"; }

and change to

Code:




if(!isset($op) || empty($op)) { $op = "index"; }

Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2009 11:44 pm

there it is... you guys are awesome. thanks a lot man.