Legacy Sidebar options

[Morrus]

A couple of requests for features:

1) Ability to control number of items in sidebar lists
2) Only count downloads of every file in a particular entry as one download. Some items by their nature consist of lots of small files. Those types of items dominated the "Hot" chart because people download dozens at a time. The chart basically turns into the "List of downloads with the most files in them" chart, which isn't much use to anybody!

 

[Fillip H.]

We'll take 1) into consideration, however 2) would be tricky.

Currently, each file has its own set of counters, which are aggregated into a "totaldownloads" statistic. There's really no way of knowing which file is the "primary" file that should be included in the statistics block.

 

[Morrus]

Ah well. Without (2) I'll just have to turn off the hot downloads list. I don't really want a list of "entries with the most files".

 

[Morrus]

Here's a way around it. How would I just exclude a category from the top downloaods block?

 

[Fillip H.]

There's no way to do that currently, the only way a category is excluded is if the person doesn't have permission to view the category.

 

[Morrus]

No, I know there's no current way to do it. I was looking at editing the SQL query. I found it on the php file, and assume I need to add sort of

WHERE category NOT 7;

Or something similar? My SQL syntax is weak.

 

[Fillip H.]

In ./vbdownloads.php find

	ORDER BY totaldownloads DESC

Add above

AND download.categoryid != 7

 

[Morrus]

Cool. I'll give that a shot tomorrow. Thanks!