file title and description [#208134]

am I missing something in the documentation? This module says that it will offer title and description... we have upload, filemanager and attachment activated... but on our site pages, we do not get a file description or title. Am I doing something wrong here or missing some documentation???

Thanks

Comments

Comment #1

cscsteve commented 9 January 2008 at 22:04

Well, the first thing you're missing is the documentation clearly states that you must not have the core Upload module enabled when using this module. Disable Upload.

The other item you're missing is you need to enable attachments for each content type you want to use it on. The instructions are in the readme.

Hope that helps,
- Steve

Comment #2

jadowd commented 10 January 2008 at 01:26

Well... The documentation makes no mention of conflicts caused by leaving upload active. It says that attachment is an alternative to upload... there is no directive to deactivate upload. perhaps a change in documentation would be helpful?

Also, for one reason or another, I cannot seem to alter the setting in content types. I have attempted in t seperate sites to change the value disabled to enables, but every time I try this, the value is not changed, even though the return message says that changes have been saved. Do you know of any reason that this mighe be the case?

any help would be appreciated.

Kind Regards,

Comment #3

cscsteve commented 10 January 2008 at 05:25

Please read the INSTALL file that comes with Attachment:
http://cvs.drupal.org/viewvc.py/drupal/contributions/modules/attachment/...

"You should then disable the upload module and enable the attachments module."

You're right, it doesn't explicitly explain that conflicts may result. Maybe I'll add information about that.

I recommend following through the instructions in that file, perhaps you've missed another step?

As for the issue with the content settings not saving: I vaguely remember something about that at one point. Likely it was either a misconfig, or a bug that's now fixed, I can't remember. Look through the closed issues for Attachment and you'll probably find a discussion about it. My recommendation is make sure you're running the most current version of Attachment and Filemanager, including grabbing it from CVS, as for some reason the linked "release" on the project page isn't up-to-date (I'll be fixing that soon).

- Steve