Link to specific category

[ly0ha]

Hi!

Thanks for such usefull component. I am using Jommla 1.5 for my new site and tested several components to create the "downloads" page. ionFiles works great, has all the functions I need and is very easy to manage.

But a still could not find the answer to one question: how can I make a link in the menu to specific category?

For example, I've splitted my files into several categories "Product1", "Product2", "Common" etc. From menu manager I can make a link to all "downloads", listed by category and a user can switch or filter files between categories. But I need a menu link to show files omly for "Product1". How is it possible to do?

[Jordan]

You have to create it manually. Add a new menu item and select external link. Place this link in the URL field:

http://www.yourname.com/index.php?option=com_ionfiles&func=showcategory&categoryid=xxx

Change yourname.com to you domain name and xxx in categoryid to the category id you want to link to. You can get category IDs in the ionFiles administration (view/manage categories).

[ly0ha]

BIG thanks for support

[ly0ha]

First it didn't work, but I searched your code for "showcategory" and found out that it works only if "Enable Category Selection" is set to "Yes". I've changed it and now it works great!

I don't have many files, and so I don't need category selection box, but according to site logic it is important to me to show all files in one place or just one category in another. May be you will consider such situation in future releases?

And one more thing too. I've told you about "file scanning" in another component (it is called JotLoader). This component has one more convinient thing - in the list of categories a link is displayed for each category so the user (like me can create an external link. Hope it will be usefull for ionFiles too.

One more time thanks for your support and patience and good luck with ionFiles!