Resource manager as a downloads manager?

[Alpha1]

Basically the RM is a downloads manager. But its also quite a different animal than DownloadsII, Links and Downloads Manager, vbDownloads and IP.Downloads.

Can the RM be used to replace these addons? How?
Will there be an importer to import categories, files, discussions and ratings from these addons?

 

[Gladius]

Unfortunately, that's not an acceptable workaround for I would assume the majority of the sites, mine included (as explained here).

My idea would be to designate one file as primary and all the others as secondary. Might be easier to work with that way. And at least as far as our usage goes, makes perfect sense in most in not all cases.

 

[Sheldon]

Unfortunately, that's not an acceptable workaround for I would assume the majority of the sites, mine included (as explained here).

My idea would be to designate one file as primary and all the others as secondary. Might be easier to work with that way. And at least as far as our usage goes, makes perfect sense in most in not all cases.

You could always purchase for $20, and then invest in a coder to do as you need.

 

[Gladius]

Well, sure, but given that this is a rather basic request echoed by a number of users here besides myself I feel that this should be in the core.

 

[Sheldon]

Well, sure, but given that this is a rather basic request echoed by a number of users here besides myself I feel that this should be in the core.

I have seriously only seen it mentioned by about 3 users, besides yourself.

http://xenforo.com/community/threads/multiple-file-uploading.27645/
http://xenforo.com/community/threads/multiple-files-upload.46292/

 

[HenrikHansen]

I think the best workaround for multiple files has already been given, and that's packaging them up into one file.

It is a pretty big core change, if you think about it.

You've got to all of a sudden begin managing multiple versions of multiple files (potentially), counting multiple downloads of multiple files, display multiple files for download maybe even rating multiple files.

There's lots of considerations for that to happen.

If one of the files is downloaded = count as 1 download.
No rating of multiple files is needed, you can also upload multiple files to a post, but you can only like a post once,
no matter how many files it has.

 

[Gladius]

I have seriously only seen it mentioned by about 3 users, besides yourself.

So far. I'm sure it'll come up with most users who'll want to use the RM as a download manager.

 

[Kevin]

So far. I'm sure it'll come up with most users who'll want to use the RM as a download manager.

I will be using it as a download manager and the 1.0.0 version, with the features that have been posted to date, will work fine for what I need.

 

[Sheldon]

You can use it as a downloads manager. Just not with multiple files in one "resource".

 

[CTXMedia]

TBH I'd still buy it @ $20 because you'll save yourself $40 if the changes you want are added to the core later on (at least during the remaining time to run on your XF license).

I'm sure there will be a raft of suggestions once everyone's downloaded and installed it.

 

[Paul B]

If there are, I hope everyone reads the existing ones first: http://xenforo.com/community/forums/resource-manager-suggestions.65/

Otherwise we'll end up with the same problem we have with the core suggestions, which is lots of duplicates and discussion spread across multiple threads, making it very difficult to pick out the ones which are most requested.