Preview feature : no global parameters ?

[CalamityDjenn]

Hi,

I'm actually using Joomla and Phoca Download for a professionnal intranet website. We just need to share lots of .pdf documents and to allow user uploads. So, I defined Phoca Downlaod to be used for that subject.

We just miss a feature here, which is an option to automatize the "preview" option. I mean, when a user upload a file, we would like this option to be activated using the file uploaded link. Which means no one has to go in the administration panel and edit each file to do so. And then, we would have the preview button when we go on the "list of files from a category" page!

Is that possible? I though we had a global option to do it :
I found the "Display file view" option but when I activate it, then clique on the file link, we got a message saying we don't have access rights to do what we want to do (even if we use the admin account on the front end)... What does it mean?
Do we just need a module to display .pdf files on the front end (not using an external app) ? In that case, which one would you recommend?

Thank you for your help, and thank you for those great modules you share Jan!

[Jan]

Hi, display file view means, that insteand of download the file in categories view, the site "file view" will be displayed (detailed info about file)

There is no option to add the preview file directly but this can be easily (I hope) customized, so after upload of the file in the frontend, the info about it will be added into database columns: file and filepreview (should be only one (or less than 5) lines of code) in the model or controller of upload in frontend.

Jan