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DOCman is well known for its ability to be used for small file distribution. But did you know that DOCman is as equally adept at serving large files without a huge resource gain?
In this edition of DOCman secrets, we give you a few tips and configuration changes that will help you use DOCman to deliver Gigabyte files with ease while maintaining the usual DOCman blend you are accustomed to.
There are two roads when we define large files.
The first of these roads would be the 0-150MB road and the second would be the 150MB to 8GB and beyond. The first road is the most simple and does not require too much sacrifice in terms of features.
And that covers road two.
Two separate paths both dealing with large file delivery and distribution and both using one platform, DOCman – grab your copy today from the Joomlatools store!
We are back once again with yet another post in the DOCman Secrets collection which already includes some really great posts such as: Brief Permissions a quick look into the inner wranglings of the DOCman ACL, Email notifications a breakdown of the Notify plugin, Generating Thumbnails a breakdown of the Autothumb plugin and last but by no means least Batch importing a detailed look at Populate.
In this edition I want to show you one of the most simple functions DOCman offers, the ability to turn specific buttons off in the frontend. Great if you ever felt the need to rid yourself of additional options or you just don’t have the real estate on your pages to offer as many options as DOCman puts out by default.
So how difficult is this to do? Very simple, each button has its own on/off switch located in the Plugin called ‘Standard Buttons’ which can be found in the Joomla Plugins Manager via the Joomla administrator.
Currently you can turn the following options on or off:
That’s all for this edition of the DOCman Secrets, remember you can always get the support you need from the Joomlatools support portal or community forums!
I am very pleased to announce that we have now surpassed the 5,000 registered user mark on our support forums, part of our Support Portal. Currently our forums are the home to over 17,000 subjects, across near 5,000 topics. They have proven a great resource for support matters and some cool tweaks and tips along the way.
Since we started our forums in July of 2007 it have received over 600,000 unique visitors, resulting in more then 2.5 million page-views. With the release of DOCman 1.5 for the price of lunch and a coffee in December 2009 we professionalized our forum support. As a result, 1 out of 3 posts are written by myself or the development team, leaving no question unanswered!
We would like to thank everyone whom has taken part in the forums both providing and requesting support. We look forward to building on this number and continue providing quick, well aimed support.
Today we are happy to announce a new feature on our support forums which is aimed at improving the support work-flow. The new feature gives our support team and forum members the option to mark topics as solved or re-open an existing issue should the need arise.
In the event you have an issue with one of the Joomlatools products then you can head over to our support forums to report your issue. Once you receive an acceptable answer you can mark the topic as solved. It also adds the ability to search for unsolved topics, your own unsolved topics and in advanced search only in solved topics. Below you find a few screenshots of this new feature which will help to outlines the usage of this new feature.
We are always aiming to improve our support the best we can. If you have any suggestions or feedback please feel free to leave a comment.
DOCman 1.5 has a unique permission system allowing you to divide up your documents and categories in such a way that you can deliver them securely and efficiently. One question I’m often asked in my daily role as Support Engineer on the forums is how to get these permissions right.
I took the time and put together a video that outlines a common permission scheme.
Imagine you need to build a school website and they want to make documents available to their students and staff. Of course the students are not allowed to access documents of the staff. While all staff people are registered users, students are a mix between registered users and guests.
You can find more information about all the steps I took in the video bellow, and I have opened a specific support topic where you can shoot me with questions related to this DOCman Secret.
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