[Typo3] DAM Downloads Categories "unknown"?

[Daniel Thomas]

Hi Eric,

could you check whether the dam_downloads extensions is loaded before 
the dam extension? - is listed before the dam extension when in the 
extension manager's view of all installed extensions.

The TCA configuration for the plugin form uses a variable defined in 
the TCA of the dam extension:
$GLOBALS['T3_VAR']['ext']['dam']['TCA']['category_config']
If the dam is loaded after the dam_downloads this variable is not yet 
set and produces your problem.

Regards

Daniel

> I think the problem I'm experiencing is a bug and I've decided to make 
> a post to the development list. The title of that post will be "DAM 
> core and dam_downloads bug?". Below are the contents of the post for 
> those wishing to follow the topic.
>
>
>
> 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
>
>
> On Apr 9, 2005, at 8:29 AM, Eric Blom wrote:
>
>> I still haven't found a solution to my problem. But, I have noticed 
>> that the search box and it's pop-up menu in the front-end correctly 
>> display the categories I have created. Therefore, I'm still confused 
>> about why the back-end configuration form does not show any 
>> categories.
>>
>> Here is a screenshot to clarify the problem. You will see that below 
>> "Plugin: DAM Downloads" it says "Categories: Unknown type"
>>
>> http://www.psocdeveloper.com/downloads/damdownloads_categories.jpg
>>
>> Any tips would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Eric
>>
>>
>> On Apr 7, 2005, at 9:55 PM, Eric Blom wrote:
>>
>>> I have three installations of Typo 3.7.0 all of which have the same 
>>> set of DAM extensions installed. One of the installations lists my 
>>> DAM Categories in the backend configuration for the DAM Downloads 
>>> plugin I've put on one of my pages. However the other two simply say
>>> 	DAM Categories: "Unknown type"
>>>
>>> I have set pid for the damdownloads plugin and I do get items that 
>>> are in the DAM system to show up in the front end. But, since I 
>>> can't select categories I can't limit what shows up in the frontend 
>>> by category.
>>>
>>> I've been searching for the different in the configuration of these 
>>> sites, but, can't find one. Can anyone here give me a tip as to why 
>>> this might be happening? Or maybe some good debug techniques to use?
>>>
>>> Thank you,
>>> Eric
>>
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