Herachical folder structure feature in EDocman

Hi All

As you know, EDocman has an advance feature called "Herachical folder structure". This feature allows each category will have it own folder to store it's documents. This post will guide you how to use this feature .

1. You need to download and upgrade your site to latest version of EDocman (1.0.3 for now) .

2. Go to EDocman -> Configuration, set Use Herachical Folder Structure config option to Yes .

3. Now when you create/edit category, you will see a field called Documents Path in add/edit category screen. You can enter the path of the folder (relative path) which you want to store documents of this category. We will go though an example to understand how it works :

- You have a category called Joomla . This categories contains 3 sub-categories : Components, Modules and Plugins. And you want that each of this sub category can have it own folder to store documents from that category. The steps to setup are :

+ Create a category called Joomla. In Documents Path field, please enter joomla (or you can leave it empty because infact, no Documents will be stored in this parent category) .

+ Create a category Components. In the Documents Path field, enter joomla/components .

+ Create a category called Modules. In the Documents Path field, enter joomla/modules .

+ Create a category called Plugins. In the Documents Path field, enter joomla/plugins .

- Let says in the Configuration of EDocman, you set Documents Path config option to /www/joomla/edocman. Now :

+ When you submit a Document to Components category, the file of this document will be uploaded to /www/joomla/edocman/joomla/components folder .
+ When you submit a Document to Modules category, the file of this document will be uploaded to /www/joomla/edocman/joomla/modules folder .
+ When you submit a Document to Plugins category, the file of this document will be uploaded to /www/joomla/edocman/joomla/plugins folder .

I hope this example is easy to understand and you now understand how Herachical folder structure feature in EDocman works. If you have questions about this feature, please don't hesitate to ask !

Tuan

Great optional feature. Some people prefer physical folders over the virtual attempt. It really depends, I like both options. Hierarchical is very good if you need to access and upload from other components. Also if your virtual categorization is damaged for some reason, it would be really annoying to re-create the structure from one big folder.

Hello,

Does the parent category matters in this case ?
I mean do I have to select the parent category "Joomla" on each of my sub categories ?
Thanks!

Hi

I have a problem with the document path. How can I make it not lowercase ?

My folder names are like "Components". "Plugins" etc. When I set up the folder names with capital first character after I save it
Edocman lowercase the path.

How can I use Documents Path field with capital letters ? What should I change ?

Thanks,

Gabor

Hi

You will need to edit code alitle. Please follow the instructions below :

1. Open the file administrator/components/com_edocman/tables/category.php

2. Find the code below and remove it

After that, it will work as expected .

Regards,

Tuan

Hi Tuan,

thanks for your fast answer. I did set it upl and it is working.

Thanks,
Gabor

Great. Thanks for confirming !

Tuan