[TYPO3-dam] dam_downloads - future and features

[Thomas Scholze]

Hello Karl,
are there any news about the dam_downloads extension?
I don't know why i didn't found this article earlier.

dam_downloads is a great basic extensions!

My favourite feature request is a categorie tree in the FE like in 
ab_linklist or tt_news which displays all sub-categories of the selected 
one. Because it isn't funny to create a single page for every category.

Also nice would be a parameter to disable all other content in the 
detail view, alternative a single view page.

The only thing i'am missing to a basic gallery is an item browser in the 
single view. (<< < prev - next > >>). Then only template work remains.

An upload tu the svn @ sf.net would be great.

Thanks for information.

regards
Thomas


Karl-Ernst Kiel schrieb:
> Hi!
> 
> Recently I mentioned that I´m working on a modified version of 
> dam_downloads and immediately some people asked me not to upload another 
> extension for dam download files to the TER.
> They are right! So I´d like to start a discussion about the future of 
> this extension or even more general about a "standard FrontEnd plugin 
> for DAM".
> 
> These are my points:
> 
> - DAM is a great and important aspect of TYPO3
> - dealing with DAM 1.0.x felt like building a house on sand
> - DAM 1.1 is on the way - giving me the hope that "building on a rock" 
> will be possible (which leads me to the question: What about the FE side 
> of DAM?)
> - there are already many DAM FE-Plugins in the TER (dam_downloadlist, 
> dd_dam_gallery, kdo_dam_photogallery, sici_damdl, mm_dam_filelist, 
> hl_dam_gallery, devable_gallery, dam_downloads, ...?)
> - dam_downloads is the one that meets my needs in many projects
> - I don´t know if Daniel Thomas is going to continue development of 
> dam_downloads
> - I know some people who were/are doing their own extension/version of 
> dam_downloads
> 
> The question is:
> Wouldn´t it be great to have a stable, well documented, "fully featured" 
> (whatever that means - maybe meeting 95% of the amount of our demands) 
> and extensible (to add the missing 5%) frontend plugin for galleries and 
> download-lists using DAM?
> (OK I know that all of you will agree...)
> 
> So the better question is how to get there?
> 
> To be more precise (I´m trying to get the "big picture"):
> 
> @René Fritz
> You provided some helpful sample plugins in DAM 1.1(beta01). Are there 
> going to be more examples? Are there any plans regarding this kind of 
> "standard DAM FE plugin"?
> 
> @Daniel Thomas:
> Do you have any plans regarding dam_downloads development?
> 
> @Everyone who modified dam_downloads (or similar extensions):
> What is the status of your project? Is there / will there be anything 
> published in TER?
> 
> Hmm - I was just on the way to ask for features (@everyone), but I think 
>  this would go beyond the scope...
> 
> So I´d like to open the discussion sending special thanks to René Fritz 
> for "doing that DAM thing" and Daniel Thomas for the current 
> "dam_downloads".
> 
> Greetings,
> Karl-E.
> 
> 
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