[Typo3-dev] DAM core and dam_downloads bug?

[Eric Blom]

I've been trying to get the dam_download extension working for the past 
few days. I've run into a problem with categories that I think may be a 
bug.

Here is my setup:
Typo3 			3.7.0
dam_downloads 	1.0.1
dam 				0.2.1 also tried 0.2.2
dam_index 		0.1.1
dam_file 			0.1.0
dam_catedit 		0.1.0
enet_dam_ext 		0.2.1

The first problem I noticed was that in the backend configuration form 
(am I using the correct term here?) for the dam_downloads extension it 
says "Unknown type" for "Categories". A screenshot is available at the 
following URL.
http://www.psocdeveloper.com/downloads/damdownloads_categories.jpg

If found this problem to be quite puzzling because I do see my 
categories in the frontend search for the dam_downloads extension as 
well as in the backend when I'm indexing DAM items and creating new 
categories.  One place in the backend where I do not see the category 
for a DAM item listed is in the Media->List  page. For all of my DAM 
items it lists N/A. Note this N/A is in the list of DAM items not when 
editing a single DAM item. When editing a DAM item I'm able to see and 
select categories without a problem.

Being new to Typo3 I just started  poking around trying to find the 
source of the problem. When I looked at ext_tables.sql I was again 
puzzled by the type of "blob" for the table. See the following.

#
# Table structure for table 'tx_dpdamimgs_content'
#
CREATE TABLE tt_content (
         tx_damdownloads_category blob NOT NULL
);>

Then I took at look at ext_tables.php and thought I was on to something 
when I saw tx_damdownloads_category. I assume this is where the content 
for the from should be coming from and was searching for a way to 
execute this in some kind of a debug mode, but, could not find a way.

$tempColumns = array(
                 'tx_damdownloads_category' => Array (
                         'label' => 
'LLL:EXT:dam/locallang_db.php:tx_dam_item.category',
                         'exclude' => '0',
                         'config' => 
$GLOBALS['T3_VAR']['ext']['dam']['TCA']['category_config']
                 )
);

Not understanding why the tx_damdownloads_category had a type of BLOB 
because I was thinking it should simply point to the UID of a DAM 
category I used phpMyAdmin to change the type to INT and manually put 
in the UID of the category I wanted for each of my frontend instances 
of dam_downloads. While this seemed to fix the problem of limiting what 
shows up in the front end for each page it did nothing to the backend 
form which still appears as shown in the URL above.

I'm at a loss as to what the problem is and why the table modifications 
I made seemed to work. Any help would be greatly appreciated. If this 
is not the correct place to be sharing this information please let me 
know.

Kind Regards,
Eric