[Typo3] DAM Downloads Categories "unknown"?
Eric Blom
ericb at piap.com
Mon Apr 11 16:51:46 CEST 2005
Thank you Daniel. I removed dam_downloads and then reinstalled it and
now the categories show up! Thank you for your help and for this
extension.
Would you mind trying to help me with another question?
If I set
plugin.tx_damdownloads_pi1.listView.templatePrefix = APPNOTE
in my template setup I'm able to change the format for my list. My
understanding was that I should be able to do the same thing on an
instance by instance basis by putting APPNOTE in the plugin's General:
List Type field. However, whatever I put in that field seems to have no
effect. Next I tried to put
tx_damdownloads_pi1.listView.templatePrefix = APPNOTE
In the page's TSconfig field, but, that didn't seem to do anything
either.
Can you tell me what I need to do to have each instance of the
dam_downloads plugin display it's contents with a different format.
Currently I was trying to use LIST and APPNOTE.
Thank you again Daniel.
Eric
On Apr 10, 2005, at 11:47 PM, Daniel Thomas wrote:
> 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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