I think you can just make a map/folder with a template to do that

--- (Edited on 11-February-2010 16:54 [GMT+0100] by bartjol) ---

Dear bartjol and perldreamer

Thank you for trying to help me, but:

The folder asset does not have a upload date variable, nor does it have the possibility to sort and search in the entries. The files can't have an additional description field.

The data table is nice, but it would mean that everybody of the team that collaborates with uploading files would have to upload a file, to give him an url and to enter this url in the data table tab of the data table editor form. I fear this would go beyond of the capapilities of the contributors. The data table would still need an image type of field to show the file type icon.

With the former file manager asset I could create nice tables with files, images associated to these files, file descriptions, upload dates,... The tables were sortable, searchable. I think about throwing away all the work done with version 7.7 and return to version 5.4.

How much work would it be to extend 7.7 to get my loved file manager back. Would it be possible to change collaboration to have access to its childs?

--- (Edited on 2/12/2010 2:13 am [GMT-0600] by christian_g) ---

The folder asset does not have a upload date variable, nor does it have the possibility to sort and search in the entries. The files can't have an additional description field.

The "upload date variable" in the file_loop of the folder is called date.epoch.

The "additional description" field is called "synopsis".

The data table is nice, but it would mean that everybody of the team that collaborates with uploading files would have to upload a file, to give him an url and to enter this url in the data table tab of the data table editor form. I fear this would go beyond of the capapilities of the contributors. The data table would still need an image type of field to show the file type icon.

I don't believe this is true.  All the data table does is display the contents of the folder.  For uploading, you would still use the URL provided by the Folder (Add Files), once the files are uploaded, they would show up in the table automatically.

As to the file type icon, it's also provided for you by the file_loop.  It's called icon.small, or icon.large.

I'm halfway tempted to implement this myself just to prove that it can be done.

How much work would it be to extend 7.7 to get my loved file manager back. Would it be possible to change collaboration to have access to its childs?

There is an RFE to make the Collaboration have access to all the attachements of it's first post, but it will slow down the Collaboration a lot.  It would probably take several hours of work to update the old File Manager to WebGUI 7, but it's doable.

--- (Edited on 2/12/2010 7:39 am [GMT-0800] by perlDreamer) ---

Have you looked in the bazaar for assets, that might help you out? http://www.webgui.org/bazaar?func=byKeyword;keyword=assets

Further I wouldn't recommend going back to 5.x. Mostly because of (known) safety problems.

you also might wanna check out thingy, I think there should be possibilties and it alos has a sortable yui interface, and different data types. I haven't worked with it myself, but maybe it can give you what you want.

--- (Edited on 12-February-2010 11:00 [GMT+0100] by bartjol) ---

I could resolve the layout problem:

perlDreamers Template missed a surrounding div tag with class "yui-skin-sam":

<div class="yui-skin-sam">
<div id="file_manager_wrapper" class="yui-skin-sam yui-dt">
...
</div>
</div>

The table looks good now. A similar Template can be used to show the collaboration post loop. The advantage of using collaboration system are the userDefined variables which can be used for anything special.

--- (Edited on 2/16/2010 9:03 am [GMT-0600] by christian_g) ---