aC forum: Anyway to assign a category to a file uploaded on ticket comment ? http://www.activecollab.com/forums/topic/3331/ Recent posts on topic: Anyway to assign a category to a file uploaded on ticket comment ? en-us Wed, 23 May 2012 02:27:54 CDT http://www.activecollab.com/forums/post/15484/#post15484 http://www.activecollab.com/forums/post/15484/#post15484 Post #8 by dalben dalben +1 here. The ability to pick a category when attaching files is something we'd really use a lot. At a minimum the ability to change the category later on if need be.

]]> Sat, 25 Oct 2008 19:51:02 CDT http://www.activecollab.com/forums/post/15310/#post15310 http://www.activecollab.com/forums/post/15310/#post15310 Post #7 by slaffont slaffont Thanks, Ilija. Be sure that we really appreciate your work. AC have really rock our agency in just a month !

]]> Thu, 16 Oct 2008 07:40:58 CDT http://www.activecollab.com/forums/post/15309/#post15309 http://www.activecollab.com/forums/post/15309/#post15309 Post #6 by Ilija Studen Ilija Studen Oh, sorry - I missed that. Category picker is more likely to be added than categories for attachments. We'll consider this feature for future releases.

Thanks for the feedback!

]]> Thu, 16 Oct 2008 06:58:01 CDT http://www.activecollab.com/forums/post/15306/#post15306 http://www.activecollab.com/forums/post/15306/#post15306 Post #5 by slaffont slaffont I think just a good thing is to let user categorize file when we use the "Quick Add" button. As we have to choose the project, it can be simple to purpose a dropdown menu with the category available on this project.

]]> Thu, 16 Oct 2008 05:25:34 CDT http://www.activecollab.com/forums/post/15305/#post15305 http://www.activecollab.com/forums/post/15305/#post15305 Post #4 by Ilija Studen Ilija Studen
slaffont:
What do you think about this?


I still stand behind original design decision.

Attachments are just that - attachments. Reason why they are listed on Files list is for convenience. We do understand that posting attachments is sometimes easier that creating a file, but if you need more firepower (like categorization, summary, comments, email notifications, version tracking etc), use files. That's what they are designed for.

]]> Thu, 16 Oct 2008 05:04:33 CDT http://www.activecollab.com/forums/post/15304/#post15304 http://www.activecollab.com/forums/post/15304/#post15304 Post #3 by slaffont slaffont Thanks for your answer, actually we use file attachment on ticket like a shorcut to post a file to a project. Perhaps a another simple solution is to let user specify a file category when the 'quick add' fonction is used. What do you think about this ?

]]> Thu, 16 Oct 2008 04:25:09 CDT http://www.activecollab.com/forums/post/15297/#post15297 http://www.activecollab.com/forums/post/15297/#post15297 Post #2 by Ilija Studen Ilija Studen Sorry, this is not possible.

Relationship between files and categories is done through parent_id relationship. In case of attachments, this field is used to define which object attachments belong to so it cannot be used for connection with categories.

Apart from that technical limitation, system is defined so attachments are organized by parent objects and it was never intended for them to be sorted in categories.

]]> Wed, 15 Oct 2008 17:00:55 CDT http://www.activecollab.com/forums/post/15294/#post15294 http://www.activecollab.com/forums/post/15294/#post15294 Post #1 by slaffont slaffont Attached file on ticket comment is great, but i need to assign them a file category ans it seems that i can't do it...

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