Re: PluginCategory for Files?
Hi John and Rick,
my idea is likely more for a new setup and not for an existing site with lots of categorised existing uploaded files. So ...
Supported object types (from PluginCategory ):
article, blog, blog post, fgal, forum, igal, newsletter, event, poll, quiz, survey, tracker, wiki, img
fgal => refers to file gallery, not files
wiki => obviously refers to wiki pages
idea from there:
tracker might refer to tracker items and not necessarily to or to only trackers (hopefully)
In case I would be right, a more or less simple tracker could be created with a field "files" which could be connected to a file gallery. Then a field category and maybe a template for item display (optionally).
Then the files could be found in the PluginCategory and same time accessed (and pre-filtered) with PluginFiles and accessed in the file gallery (but only in one gallery per tracker).
This setup might make sense in some use cases and not in others. I have some use case where I prefer document management based on trackers over file galleries, although even there the remaining file gallery functionality is still handy and necessary.
Otherwise back to Ricks idea, if my idea was not appropriate for your use case: You might use maybe some kind of two culomns (two divs class=col-md-6 inside a div class=row, where you can use the PluginDiv. One side the PluginCategory and the other side the PluginFiles.
Am just thinking, hope that helps, regards,
Torsten