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#91

General / Re: SIngle User download

Last post by junsve - 08.02.2026 15:35:13

Is this forum active? I was hoping for some help to get Single user download to work in a fresh installation.
Best regards
/Sven

#92

General / Re: Issues with script updates...

Last post by ColinM - 05.02.2026 11:50:52

Hi
Many servers use caching so it might be that a user needs to clear there own cache.  Also Joomla maybe setup to use caching. jD has its own cache which is typically set at 93 days as it is used for the User Groups Limits functions.  See article:
Logging Options at https://www.jdownloads.net/documentation?view=article&id=327:logging-options&catid=31
Colin

#93

General / Re: layouts: move sorting belo...

Last post by ColinM - 05.02.2026 11:20:25

Hi
There is a whole section on layouts in the documentation
https://www.jdownloads.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&id=34
For example you can add your own CSS  - another article deals with the strucure of layouts.
One thing is never change an existing layout, make a copy and give it a different name. Then change that one.
Colin

#94

General / Issues with script updates not...

Last post by jerry554 - 04.02.2026 20:00:36

Hi everyone,

I'm managing a project where users can download and run dynamic scripts, and I've been noticing a recurring problem. When the scripts are updated, some users still seem to get the old version, even though the latest files are uploaded correctly.

It seems like a caching or execution issue, especially with setups using delta to handle the runtime. This creates confusion because users think the download isn't working, or that the script itself is broken.

Has anyone here run into similar issues with dynamic script downloads in jDownloads? Is there a best practice for ensuring that updated scripts are served reliably without forcing users to manually clear caches?

Would love to hear how others handle this kind of scenario.

#95

General / layouts: move sorting below ti...

Last post by jd_cher - 04.02.2026 16:51:43

Dear everybody!

Again: How to modify layouts? I want to move the sorting block below the category heading (for category layout and subcategory layout) below the heading (category name). According to the FAQ article I need to move the "categories before" part. But I can't find the right spot in any layout. But the sorting links are displayed, so I wonder where this comes from.

My goal:
Heading plus add info
->sorting
file list
subcategories


Anybody?

Thanks!
Chris

#96

General / Re: layouts: change order of d...

Last post by jd_cher - 04.02.2026 15:59:51

Sometimes I just need to back away from my computer, come back some minutes later and have a fresh look.
Of course it was simple:

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{files}first, then

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{sub_categories}
Now the order is how I need it.



Regards!
Chris

#97

General / Re: layouts: change order of d...

Last post by jd_cher - 04.02.2026 15:51:11

Hello Colin!
I think my question was misunderstood. I only want to change the frontend order: Show file list before subcategories. Maybe a simple template override?
I can't imagine that the way categories, subcategories and files are displayed can be changed in all details, but the overall layout (order) is untouchable.

Chris

#98

General / Re: layouts: change order of d...

Last post by ColinM - 04.02.2026 15:25:47

Chris,
What you ask is not simple, and is not feasible.  The jD Categories and subcategories contain, amongst other info, the details of where the Downloads are located. Basically it is an inverted tree like structure with the root at the top. If you do not want to see a subcategorie then set its Access level appropriately.  Also it is possible for a Download to be in more than one subcategory.

Colin

#99

General / layouts: change order of downl...

Last post by jd_cher - 04.02.2026 12:55:43

Hello everyone!
I'm testing the most recent version of JDownloads and wonder if it's possible to change the order of (subcategories) and downloads.

For the moment I chose the multicolumn subcategory layout v3.9 and see

• info about maincat
• all subcats in multible columns
• all downloads of the maincat

But I'd like to have the downloads first:

• info about maincat
• all downloads of the maincat
• all subcats in multible columns

I guess that should be simple, but I can't find the layout to change that.

Thanks for your help!
Chris

 

[I hope that someone who knows the code best can work out where the real fix should be applied]

#100

Bugs! / Re: Content Plugin Button Brok...

Last post by ghicar - 03.02.2026 15:50:19

Following my previous post, it seems pagination is broken for all editors-xtd plugins. However as initially reported when using SEF URLs the jDownloads editors-xtd plugin does not work for either filtering the list or paging through the list. Instead, when either of these are tried the modal displays a category view instead of an all downloads view.

I have found that a small change to ~/components/com_jdownloads/src/Dispatcher/Dispatcher.php that works around the issue when SEF URLs are used, adding the code below to the dispatch()

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    public function dispatch()
    {
        if(empty($this->input->get('view'))) {
            if($this->input->get('layout')==='modal'  ) {
                $this->input->set('view', 'downloads');
            }
        }
Doing this allows filtering to work. Now to me this is a workaround and I hope that someone who knows the code best can work out where the real fix should be applied.

Having applied this fix, filtering works as expected but attempts to move to another page presents the same behaviour seen by all the other editor-xtd plugins that use pagination, which is a Joomla bug in J!5.4.2