Does your Downloads Plugin Support secondary usergroups

[Mick]

Two questions please.

Hi does your Downloads modification support secondary usergroups overriding the primary usergroups.

We have a subscription service that adds a secondary usergroup, I need something that if a member subscribes to the forums they will get the downloads permissions and usage of the secondary usergroup.

And

Does your modification, import from DownloadsII?

Cheers
Mick

 

[Fillip H.]

v1.4 / v2.0 (currently in development) does support secondary usergroups, yeah

For the per-category permissions, it constructs a list of allowed usergroups and only disallows access if the user is not a member of any of the allowed usergroups.

We also have a DownloadsII importer available

 

[Mick]

So would the secondary usergroup override the primary and vice versa... based on YES.

As currently downloadsII works on the opposite, where a NO will override.

The basic functions of vbulletin are based on a YES will override, and I need something like this with the downloads.

So will your converter keep all my category images?

Is there anything the converter won't bring over to your system?

Mick

 

[Fillip H.]

I can't speak to what DownloadsII or even vBDownloads v1.3.8 did, but I can tell you that v1.4+ is absolutely designed in a way that a Yes overrides a No across usergroups as per vBulletin's standards

Category images won't be imported, from what I can tell. You could always just edit the categories and set the image paths post-import, though
That may have been what tripped me up from importing them properly - vBDownloads don't store category images in a writeable directory anywhere, it relies on admins uploading the images to a directory of their choice and setting the image paths.

Beyond that, I have not used DownloadsII extensively enough that I can tell you what would get imported and what would not
I recommend duplicating your forum into a test board, installing vBDownloads, then running the importer. That way, you can compare (and also deal with any "unexpected features" - there are no bugs, only unexpected features) without worrying about your users wondering what's going on.

 

[Mick]

That sounds positive, do you know when the modification will be released - the new version

I would be very interested.

Thank you.
Mick

 

[Fillip H.]

Sorry, I thought I had replied to this:

We expect a Pro-only Beta to be released this upcoming Friday

 

[Mick]

Hi Fillip H.

Could you let me know if this has been released yet?

And does it currently support the YES to Download approach

Thank you.

 

[Fillip H.]

It was indeed released that Friday, and the Gold version of v2.0.0 will be released tonight

What I said in my original reply hasn't changed, Yes overrides No for member usergroups when it comes to being able to access categories or downloads.