Wanted to thank the coder for this excellent mod. We use this on our site for a while and it is very heavily used. I really LOVE the ability to set a time between downloads for different usergroups. My members have asked for a couple of things regarding this mod... So, I have a couple small questions and also a couple of small suggestions for the next version if at all possible.
Question 1:
How would I get ALL downloads to sort by Alpha?

Request 1:
I am not sure if it has been requested or not, but for the next version my members would like to be able to have alphabetical navigation. Perhaps instead of page numbers be able to jump to jump to files that begin with the letter A for instance. A, B, C, D, E, F, etc...

Request 2:
I would also like to see a field that would be on the submission screen that can be added by the uploader tha can point to a "Support" type thread. On my site, we require users to create an announcement/discussion thread before submitting an upload. I would like to be able for people when downloading a file to see (and be able to click) the link to the "support" thread on the forums.

Request 3:
An option to create a new thread in a specific forum when a new download is added would be nice as well. I know that there is an add on for this, but official support would be nice. :D

Again, Thank you very much for this mod!

I have a req. too :)
downloadsII will be able to browse/listing files for external host-
i have two diff. webhost - i put files on my 2nd host..
it will be nice if this mod can import/list files from 2nd host with permission..

pls give a thought about it

I might be working on this after my exams, as someone else also requested this.

1. No, not at this moment though. But comments will be improved (quick reply editor, better permissions, ability to edit them).
2 + 3. There will be definitely a general report button for each file. So you can use it for the comments too. I'm not sure if I'm going to add another button per comment.

As you may want to keep your statistics. That's the point about statistics, otherwise they would be useless :p
vBulletin itself is also logging registration, new thread, post, ... stats.

That's not possible at this moment. But there's a vBadvanced CMPS add-on and you can integrate the CMPS on your forumhome.

Some forumhome integration might be added in the future. As 5.1.0 already integrates in the navbar (button, search), postbit and user profile (stats, list).

As I said, the avatar.jpg image is nowhere in the DownloadsII code, unless you edited it yourself. Check the ecdownloads_download_pic phrase which contains the image name.

Q1. Try setting "Sort by Weight" to no.
v6 has serious improved sorting (category based, each category can have different sorting, ascending/descending on all possible fields).
R1. This is not going to make it - I think -. That's more something for a glossary mod (or the vB memberslist).
R2. The add-on can add automatically such a discuss link to the description field of a file.
R3. The add-on is "official" as its coded by CyberRanger, coauthor of DownloadsII.

The storage and download part is the last unfinished thing of v6. I was basing it on the attachment system, but with vB 4 coming soon, I stopped working on it. vB 4 will have the new asset manager, so I'm going to look how integration with that goes.

I also hope they are going to fix the lightbox integration :D

Ahh, ok... I was looking for a way to sort each category differently. My main cats are done by weight, but I'd like my subs to be sorted by alpha. Sounds like I am really looking forward to v6 sorting options.

Which add-on are you talking about above that adds this functionality? I swear I've looked at everything with DownloadsII. :D

in the first post of this threads, towards the bottom, look where it says add-ons...:D

RS Jelle - I think we're talking about different things.

Prune Download log entries
Set to 0 (zero) if you want to maintain all the download log entries (found in the dl_downloads table). Otherwise, enter a positive integer (1,2,5, etc). Log entries OLDER (in DAYS) than the value entered will be deleted. This item is run hourly be the "Hourly Cleanup" scheduled task.

I set this setting to a few days, but it doesn't clear.

Great to hear!

I believe that would be a huge asset to the mod. Reporting per comment and have it auto create threads just like the report thread option.

I am glad you are putting a report dead links option in there as it's very good to have. Maybe if you can, have an option to auto create threads just like the above suggestion.

Thank you , useful hack
i have one Request
Can You Add Resume Support Please ?

Ah, now I see :)

It seems that the vB devs changed the name of one of the plugin locations. Go to the plugin manager, find the downloads_cron_script_cleanup plugin and click edit. Set the hook location to cron_script_cleanup_hourly (previously it was called cron_script_cleanup).

Will be fixed in the next release ;)

There will be plugin locations, so there could be an add-on made for this.

Probably in v6, but I'm not sure.