Hi,

I'm testing the dev version of filefield which looks very promising. But there is some questions that don't find answers.

What is the difference between File upload and Extensible file widget ?
What is the interest of filefield token ? Without this module enabled, filefield already propose some tokens to define the file path ?

thank you

zmove

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I'd like to know this too. The source code labels it with the index "filefield_combo" but in grepping through the module files, I don't see anywhere else where that's used... Using CVS annotate, I traced this code back to the original Drupal 6 port issue, where jpetso states here that it's being removed.

Is this a bug?

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Title: Some informations about filefield » What is Extensible file widget?
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Oh. The other question I can answer. Filefield Paths provides additional, dynamic tokens that FileField module doesn't provide on its own, and won't because they'd screw up file paths if node properties changed on update, for example. But handy if you're aware of the potential snafus. :)

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which btw, I totally disapprove of filefield paths and will not support any filefield installation with it installed.

The end user was asking about FileField Tokens, which exposes file data to token.module.

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gaele commented
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The question "What is Extensible file widget?" is still open.

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What is extensible file widget.... It's an unimplemented widget. It's meant to implement the many faced widget available in filefield 6.x-1.x releases, but hasn't been and might not be completed before release.. So you can safely ignore it for now unless you want to work on it... why the heck are you trying to document alpha quality code.. wait until I at least get to a beta... ;)