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Category: DOCman File Listing Plugin

Published: 06 October 2016

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The new 2.8.0 version is now live on the Downloads page and brings in support for DOCman 3.0 RC1 from Joomlatools!

There were some issues with the new format for the Primary Menu Item check that I do so that the plugin can correctly create its SEF URLs for you, along with some new locations for where Joomlatools placed its JavaScript files that needed to be brought into the plugin (this JavaScript is needed to correctly support the Delete operation within the Plugin's output).

Version 2.8.0 Changelog

This release should still be compatible with DOCman 2.x if you are running it.

2.8.0 2016-10-06 / Omar Ramos
+ Added minor changes for DOCman 3.0 RC compatibility in our Primary Menu Item ID check for DOCman (this is needed for the plugin to correctly generate SEF URLs for you).
+ Added extra code so that new JavaScript locations for DOCman 3.0 Koowa JS files will get loaded properly (these are needed for the File Delete capability to work correctly within the plugin output).

Quick Tip: Setting Up the Default Menu Item Needed for the Plugin

After installing the plugin and DOCman 3.0, you will need to make sure you have a default menu item setup for DOCman otherwise you will see the plugin output some error info that looks like this:

NOTE: If you upgraded from DOCman 2.x to DOCman 3.0 you may have to open up your existing DOCman 2 menu item and resave it (to save the new URL structure and help the plugin work).

In order to fix this, you need to create a Default Menu Item for all categories so you need to create a DOCman "(Default Hierarchical List" menu item set to show All Categories (it can be located in a hidden menu if you don't wish it to be a part of your site's Main Menu) and it is allowed to be in any of the List, Table, or Gallery layouts currently available in DOCman 3.0 (in previous versions of my plugin it only supported the List layout menu item).

Once you create this menu item, the plugin should be able to create it's output as expected :-).

Enjoy!

Want to see what other features DOCman List has? Check out the Features page! Want to see the plugin in action? Check out the DOCman List Plugin's Example page on our Demo Site (unfortunately I haven't created a new demo site to feature newer DOCman List Features available in version 2.6.0 and newer of the plugin) and our new DOCman List How to Video Series on Youtube!

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Category: DOCman File Listing Plugin

Published: 24 August 2016

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The new 2.7.9 version is now live on the Downloads page and brings in some minor bugfixes!

There was a small CSS issue that was being noticed with certain templates so an extra CSS rule was added into hopefully remedy that automatically for others.

Additionally, there was an issue for anyone trying to use the Category Inclusion/Exclusion Filters and needing to use single character wildcards (which in SQL are denoted with the _ character). Because of the way I had initially set things up, I had documented that the underscore could be used in lieu of a space character, but the drawback with using the underscore is that it would prevent you from using those single character wildcards (you could safely use a % symbol to do a mass wildcard, but not the single character ones).

So I added an option where you can change this previously hardcoded space separator to another character when needed so that you can use the underscores if you need to use the single character wildcards.

Version 2.7.9 Changelog

Please note again that this release DOES NOT work with the older DOCman 1.6.x version since DOCman 2.0's architecture is much different and I wasn't able to share the codebase easily.

2.7.9 2016-08-24 / Omar Ramos
! Happy Birthday Mom!
# Fixed an issue limiting the functionality of the Category Inclusion/Exclusion Filters.
# Fixed a CSS issue being noticed on newer templates that set images to be displayed as blocks which affected the display of the DOCman List output.

Want to see what other features DOCman List has? Check out the Features page! Want to see the plugin in action? Check out the DOCman List Plugin's Example page on our Demo Site (unfortunately I haven't created a new demo site to feature newer DOCman List Features available in version 2.6.0 and newer of the plugin) and our new DOCman List How to Video Series on Youtube!

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Category: DOCman File Listing Plugin

Published: 01 May 2016

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The new 2.7.8 version is now live on the Downloads page and brings in a new minor capability to match a correction to the display of dates in the recently released DOCman 2.1.5!

Specifically, this release brings in the ability for DOCman List to correctly take into account your Joomla site's timezone setting to show the most accurate Date and Time values when displaying your document lists!

Previously, the plugin was pretty much just accepting the dates it was receiving from DOCman 2.1.x database at face value and just formatting them without any particular timezone adjustments.

In the recently released 2.1.5 version of DOCman though, there was a fix described as "Timezone offset added twice when adding documents on some hosts" and after that was corrected, one of my wonderful DOCman List users noted that even after that update, the DOCman List plugin would sometimes show the incorrect date (since the timezone wasn't being taken into account so sometimes the date would be off on the document). 

So I spent a bit of time today researching that and made the needed adjustments in the plugin so that the timezone would now be correctly taken into account as defined in Joomla.

To better illustrate, the times shown in the first image below show how things were under the previous version of the plugin (v2.7.7) and are displaying things in the standardized UTC (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinated_Universal_Time) timezone that the dates are stored in the database with:

But I think it's pretty safe to agree with the user that reported this that it might be a good idea to take into account the timezone set on your Joomla site instead!

Here on my local test site I have the timezone set to the "America/Los_Angeles" value which is usually ~7-8 hours behind the UTC time (depending on whether we're in Daylight Savings or not), so the screenshot below more accurately displays the dates/times when I added the following test documents in:

Since no new option keys were added in this release the 2.7.7 version of the documentation for the plugin is still accurate and can be found here: DOCman List 2.7.7 Documentation.

Version 2.7.8 Changelog

Please note again that this release DOES NOT work with the older DOCman 1.6.x version since DOCman 2.0's architecture is much different and I wasn't able to share the codebase easily.

2.7.8 2016-05-01 / Omar Ramos
# Corrected date display within plugin so that timezones are correctly accounted for.
# Noticed that the Labels in Columns layout would sometimes not show the new column correctly so made a slight adjustment in that layout to correct that.

Want to see what other features DOCman List has? Check out the Features page! Want to see the plugin in action? Check out the DOCman List Plugin's Example page on our Demo Site (unfortunately I haven't created a new demo site to feature newer DOCman List Features available in version 2.6.0 and newer of the plugin) and our new DOCman List How to Video Series on Youtube!

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Category: DOCman File Listing Plugin

Published: 16 April 2016

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The new 2.7.7 version is now live on the Downloads page and brings in some category and document sorting improvements suggested by one of my many awesome users!

Specifically, this release brings in the ability for DOCman List to use Natural Sorting within your Category and Document Titles or Alias values!

This is really useful when you have numeric values within your titles or aliases and you would want the list to be sorted numerically in the correct way (as a human might do) rather than how the computer does it by default when retrieving the data from the database.

To illustrate if you had the following Category Titles the database would sort them this way by default:

But this is not the way a human would sort things since the "Contrato 1001-2015" folder and file would have been placed at the end of each of the lists shown above if a human had sorted the lists :-)!

Now with the new Natural Sorting feature, once turned on you would get this more human result instead (in the following example both the Category and Document Natural Sort Options have been set to Yes):

The Plugin Configuration now shows these new options within the Ordering Options subtab.

If you'd rather use the Option Keys to change the configuration settings on the fly for specific circumstances on your site you may use the following option keys to turn things on/off:

• useCategoryDefaultSort
• useCategoryNaturalSort
• useDocumentDefaultSort
• useDocumentNaturalSort

Additionally, I've posted a copy of the automatic documentation that the plugin can output for you for easy reference: DOCman List 2.7.7 Documentation.

Version 2.7.7 Changelog

Please note again that this release DOES NOT work with the older DOCman 1.6.x version since DOCman 2.0's architecture is much different and I wasn't able to share the codebase easily.

2.7.7 2016-04-16 / Omar Ramos
+ Added ability to perform natural case category sort (Option Keys: useCategoryDefaultSort, useCategoryNaturalSort)
+ Added ability to perform natural case document sort (Option Keys: useDocumentDefaultSort, useDocumentNaturalSort)
! Natural case sorting is useful for when you have numeric values in your Category or Document Titles and want them to be sorted the way a human might sort them since by default the database tends to sort them incorrectly (e.g. 10, 11, 100, 50, 70 would be the default result and 10, 11, 50, 70, 100 would be the natural sort result).

Want to see what other features DOCman List has? Check out the Features page! Want to see the plugin in action? Check out the DOCman List Plugin's Example page on our Demo Site (unfortunately I haven't created a new demo site to feature newer DOCman List Features available in version 2.6.0 and newer of the plugin) and our new DOCman List How to Video Series on Youtube!

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Published: 25 April 2015

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