First of all, it's downright awesome all the work you've done getting filefield finished. If you hadn't taken it up, it seems as though it would have dragged on for ages. I don't think I've seen so many issues fixed so quickly in any other modules I keep an eye on. (b^_^)b

Now to the point. There don't seem to be many default field display options to being with as far as displaying data about the file, such as it's filezise, the author, date of upload, etc. So, I wonder if I'm missing something in setting that up? Hopefully it isn't something painfully obvious.

Or, if there are no such options, is it possible to have views replace the file list generally? I recall a module out there somewhere had that capability if you named your view something specific.

Maybe in the future filefield can come with a custom table view that can be selected in the field display options where we could add columns for the various data that is stored regarding the file?

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Thanks for your very kind words. :-)

Regarding how to change the display of files, I'm assuming you mean change the display when editing the node? If that's the case, you can override the theme_filefield_widget_preview() function from the filefield_widget.inc file. Just copy the function to your template.php file, rename it to [mytheme]_filefield_widget_preview(), then change anything as necessary.

You can do the same thing for the display of the files everywhere else on the site by overriding the theme_filefield_file() function, which is in the filefield_formatter.inc file.

Any other things you want to override, I'd suggest installing the Theme Developer Tool that comes with the devel project.

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Status: Active » Fixed

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Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.