Downloads subcategories items listing

[-FP]

Let's say I have the "Trees" category, and in "Trees" I use the subcategories "Cedar", "Birch" and "Ash" to upload files. I would like to be able to browse all the items in these subcategories at once when I browse to the category "Trees".

I could add them all to Trees and that's it, but I'd like to have a bit of organization, that's why I also use subcategories.

Maybe add a setting to parent categories to show all items in their child categories? I think that is implemented in Pages.

[Joel R]

It's been requested multiple times. 

Even worse when Trees is only a holding category, it displays 0 files even though it's subcategories may have hundreds of files.  

[sasiko]

yeah we requested this many times in past. devs dont agree what the "miniority" are saying.

[Adriano Faria]

 

1 hour ago, Joel R said:

It's been requested multiple times. 

Even worse when Trees is only a holding category, it displays 0 files even though it's subcategories may have hundreds of files.  

Exactly:

I have files on a subcategory but it simply doesn't appear on category list.

I REALLY hope they change this to IPS 4.2. It's been requested since 4.0.0 Beta!

[ZackL]

All that we ever ask for is an option on the category to "Show sub-category files inside this category."

This is rather annoying on our downloads site because we have tons of categories. Although I admit to category bloat, this default un-configurable 'feature' isn't wanted.  

[-FP]

Maybe we can just keep annoying them until something positive in our interest happens

I mean come on, it could be just a setting, it doesn't have to be mandatory for everyone.

[Joel R]

I feel like this is a reasonable request that IPS can implement in their next IP.Downloads sweep. 

 

[Adriano Faria]

3 minutes ago, Joel R said:

I feel like this is a reasonable request that IPS can implement in their next IP.Downloads sweep. 

Btw, it happens in any 3rd-party app (model we have) + Pages.

[Joel R]

I think IPS suffers from multiple personality disorder.  Features in one app are not in another app.  

 

[Adriano Faria]

Just now, Joel R said:

I think IPS suffers from multiple personality disorder.  Features in one app are not in another app.  

 

Actually, only FORUMS is like it should. All others that uses categories, are like that.

[Adriano Faria]

12 minutes ago, Adriano Faria said:

Btw, it happens in any 3rd-party app (model we have) + Pages.

Let me correct this. This doesn't happen on Pages:

Which means that we can probably mimic this on 3rd-party apps.

Still a problem on Downloads.

[Adriano Faria]

21 hours ago, Joel R said:

It's been requested multiple times. 

Even worse when Trees is only a holding category, it displays 0 files even though it's subcategories may have hundreds of files.  

This is fixed:

I mean, I will fix it on my apps.

[Adriano Faria]

I was able to also show the subcategories on my apps:

[Adriano Faria]

 

[rebecah]

I would like to add my desire to have this change implemented too.  I don't want people to post in my parent categories, but I would like the listing of the child categories to be listed in the parent category.  Please!

[Adriano Faria]

It should display the subcategories, just like happens on Forums: it display the subforums.

[SaltyBart]

This works great, but I think it should be a default option.

 

[Adriano Faria]

It's the same fix I posted on Tracker.

[xplanedotorg]

+1

add us to the list of people who think this is a ridiculous behavior

Invision should go back to the old v3 behavior where all files for a category were listed, including the ones in sub-categories.

I would much prefer if Invision would listen to us and fix this rather than having to resort to using a 3rd party tool for this. 3rd party tools tend to break with time (and updates)

[lotsen]

+1

I want to be able to show all child items in the parent category too. If me or "vendors" are selling products this actually makes it harder to catch peoples eye with similar things in other categories while they are browsing (and many other reasons why this is silly for not being default behavior imo)

Furthermore, I added one item to the parent category and one item to child category...the total number of files shown on the parent include the child items, so right now it says 2 files, but when I click it it only shows one when they click the parent...very confusing for site users.

 

[Joel R]

IPS might be able to utilize the fancy new Fluid view to Downloads.