I have spent 2 hours trying to set up a very basic and convenient area for members to view and download from a list pdf documents.  

I tried to use the Downloads module but all of the configuration provide so much information per listed download that it makes it hard to simply scan a list.

I then tried to just create a simple extra page on the Site module with the thought of just creating a bullet list of links, but I cannot find anyway in the interface to upload a pdf document, only an image.

My questions are this:

Is there a way to upload a pdf document from within the Builder so I can create a list of links for downloading pdf documents?  Am I missing something?

Is there a way to focus the CSS to target a specific Module so I can use CSS to simply display:none some of the extra information listed for the downloads in the download module?  (I am surprised I did not run across this before - I thought for example there would be a specific Class or Id assigned to the HTML for a given Module so I could use that identifier to specify a CSS rule for just that module, but could not find anything of such in the HTML for any given page, which means I will have to comb the Module specific files and edit them to make such a small modification??)

Given what I have shared I am trying to accomplish, am I missing something?  Any other ways of adding a simple list of pdf documents for members of a site to review and download?

Thanks

With the download module, you can upload a PDF file to the uploader within the add new download tab (area / category / download = page). On the new edit page (not wiccle builder), at the top you can select to upload a file such as PDF and the rest of the edit boxes is for adding any content text with it. 

You can see an example of this here: 

http://demo.wiccle.com/index.php?module=downloads&parent=wiccle_file_area&category=example_files&show=post&post=benchbook_pdf_document

& for two downloads or more :

http://demo.wiccle.com/index.php?module=downloads&parent=wiccle_file_area&category=iwiccle_downloads_category&show=post&post=iwiccle_cms_community_builder

For creating a list of downloads such as a list like categories, this will need to be created and added to a future update. 

Also is this what you mean in focusing the CSS to target a specific module ? or to pull only information from that module on another page (i.e. displaying list of blogs within a site module page?)

Apart from creating links within a custom unit box and linking them to the files you want (by uploading them to the FTP), there is not an easier way of doing this but your right that there should be. The downloads module + a few others do require alot more work to be done to them and this is what I am addressing currently to make sure this happens. 

Hi Keith,

Thanks for your response, and sorry for not being more clear in my questions.  I was trying various avenues to create a more basic / user-friendly download list of documents than is offered in the Download Module configuration options.  Below are the two ways I tried and where I ran into a wall in both cases, unable to solve the need, which seems basic to me.

1. I had tried out the options you shared in your links above, but having a large box with lots of information about the download file - for each download - is way more information than needed.  I have a client who simply has a list of a dozen pdf documents he wants to have available for members to download.  All that is needed is something like the following, where each item in the bullet list is a link to a pdf document to download:

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Click on any of the following to download a copy:

• Certification Form A
• Certification Form B
• Tax Form A
• Tax Form B
• etc....

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So I tried to simply create a new page in the Site module, and create the above, but the interface does not allow for uploading a pdf so that it can be linked for someone to download it.  Asking a client to make an FTP connection to upload their documents to such a website, so they can then create a link to those documents, is not an appropriate request for an end user in this case.

2. With regard to focusing the CSS, what I mean is that if I want to modify something specific in one module, rather than across the whole website, (such as a font change, spacing change, or in my case to specify that all of the extra information listed per download in the download module not be displayed), often times it can be done by specifying in the CSS style sheet a rule that only applies to that module.  This can be done when there is something in the code that specifies that one module or section of website. With Wiccle, it would be helpful if a specific Id or Class was added to the code on a per module basis, so that one could simply create a styling rule that would apply to on a per module basis.  This is very common, and very useful with customizing a system.  I was surprised that I could not find anything as such and was wondering if I was missing something.  Markus is much more talented with coding skill than I am and I wondered if he had created some other way to make such a module-specific styling change, without having to modify the files, that I was not aware of.  If not, adding this to each module would be of major benefit to designers/developers customizing your system in the future.

Thanks,

Okay, got it. =)

Yes that is going to have to go into another update as the only other way for such a list is manually do it or just have the download pages (like blogs, product within a category, etc) to be listed with the builder in a list but not as a list of links that can be clicked on and the download starts.

Tagged for an update.

3. On top of all of that, I just tested out one of the links in the Downloads module to download a pdf document that I had uploaded, and the link did not work.  I have not done any special customizing that would cause this not to work, so I imagine this is the case in your default install.  The link created follows a path: /download/downloads/16.pdf, but no such file exists there.  When I look on the server, there is no such folder "download".  There is an "upload" folder, and within that a downloads folder and within that look to be the pdf docs I uploaded, but their names are not as simple as 16.pdf but contain the full name of the pdf I uploaded.  I looked on your site, via the link above to your sample in the demo, and it also points to a download/downloads series of folders - so there must have been a change to the location of the actual docs without changing how the links are created?

Anyways, it doesn't work.

I have it working with the demo site on my end. 

Strange new bug there alright, i will get the new teams to look over the whole downloads module for the next update. 

thanks.