Downloads Manager - Product specifications

Index, Categories & Browsing

• Standalone downloads index, separate from the XF Resource Manager
• Nested category tree with display order, parent/child support, and per-node permissions
• Category landing pages with subcategory grid and download listings
• Category cover/icon support
• Per-category sort defaults
• Sidenav and widget slots on overview, category, and download view
• Featured downloads via XF FeaturedContent
• Trending downloads via XF TrendingContent
• Sitemap entries for downloads and categories

Downloads

• Tabbed download view: Overview, History, Updates, Reviews, plus version, comments, and field-specific surfaces
• Cover image with drag-to-position banner editor
• Download icon (square thumbnail) with edit support
• Tag entry and tag browsing
• Reactions, reports, edit history, warn, inline moderation
• Team / co-author presentation
• Share panel with token creation, regeneration, and revocation
• Watch and bookmark
• Embed resolver renders downloads inline when their URL is posted in a thread
• [mc-download=] BBCode tag

Versions & Files

• Multiple files per version
• Multiple versions per download with history
• File preview surfaces: text, archive listing, in-frame iframe preview
• Per-cap preview limits (text, image, video, audio, PDF, archive entries)
• HTTP Range / resume support on the file-serve route
• Download dependencies (manage own + manage any)
• Hash deduplication
• Allowed file types and dangerous-extension blocklist
• Server-side size limits per file, per version, per download
• Upload-filename normalization with configurable max length

Download Gates

• Permission gate
• Bandwidth gate (global cap + per-permission cap, bypass perm)
• Hotlink gate (allow-list + bypass perm)
• Rate-limit gate (guest + member burst and per-hour, bypass perm)
• CAPTCHA gate (with configurable pass duration)
• Password gate (with pass duration, set-own perm, set-any perm)
• Criteria gate (admin-defined criteria, bypass perm)
• Third-party gates register through the GateRegistry

Upload Processors (extension registry)

• Hash, size, MIME, magic-byte, decompression-bomb processors built in
• Custom processors register through the ProcessorRegistry

External Sources (extension registry)

• Direct URL, Magnet, S3 sources built in
• External-URL allow-list and per-permission upload right
• Custom sources register through the SourceRegistry

Statistics

• BuiltInAggregator collects download events
• Per-download analytics page
• Per-author analytics dashboard

Publishing & Editorial Flow

• Scheduled publishing with cron-driven auto-publish
• Approval queue for downloads and versions (handlers shipped)
• Soft delete with configurable retention; hard-delete cron
• Audit log retention with configurable IP anonymization window
• Edit history (XF EditHistory)
• Move and reassign actions
• Change linked discussion thread
• Inline mod actions: approve, unapprove, soft delete, undelete, hard delete, feature, unfeature
• Batch update tool in the AdminCP

Authors & Teams

• Author drafts, deleted-downloads, and permanent-delete views
• Team membership per download with manage-own and manage-any perms
• Dedicated team matrix permission system

Comments

• Native comment system on every download
• Editor with attachments, edit grace period, configurable max length
• Soft delete with configurable retention
• Reactions, mentions, alerts (mention, reaction, new comment)
• Permissions: post, edit own, delete own, react, attach, bypass flood
• Moderator perms: edit any, delete any, hard delete, approve, view IP, view deleted, view moderated
• Comments-per-page and comments-below-description count are configurable
• Auto-created discussion thread per download (thread title format, first-post template, delete-action policy)

Reviews

• Reviews with rating and body
• Review reply by the author
• Review voting (helpful/unhelpful) with toggle
• Anonymous review submission
• Reviews tab on the download view, with filters
• Recent Reviews and Top Rated widgets, plus a "Latest Reviews" navigation entry
• Review fields admin tool
• Bayesian minimum and per-review length bounds, optional require-download-to-rate
• Permissions: rate, review, react, reply, report, vote, view, edit own, delete own, submit anonymously
• Moderator perms: edit any, delete any, hard delete, approve, view IP, view deleted, view moderated, reassign, undelete

Discovery

• Search downloads
• Latest Reviews
• Watched Categories, Watched Downloads, Your Downloads
• What's New for downloads
• Per-category exclude from search and exclude from sitemap toggles
• Activity summary
• Member stats

Widgets

• Widgets shipped
  • Category Grid
  • New Downloads
  • New Versions
  • Top Downloads
  • Top Rated
  • Recent Reviews
  • Featured Downloads
  • Statistics
• Widget positions
  • Overview: above downloads, below downloads, main, sidenav
  • Category: above downloads, below downloads, sidenav
  • View: above content, below content, sidebar

Permissions

• Five permission groups: Downloads, Downloads Mod, Comments, Comments Mod, Reviews, Reviews Mod
• Per-category permission overrides via TreeContentPermissions admin UI
• Granular perms covering view, download, create, edit own/any, delete own/any/permanent, approve, undelete, feature, hard delete, move, reassign,
• manage discussion, manage team, manage tags, manage share tokens, manage dependencies, set password, edit cover, view analytics (own + any),
• view audit log, view preview, attach upload count
• Bypass perms for approval, hotlink, rate limit, criteria gate

API & Webhooks

• REST controllers for Categories, Downloads, Versions, Files, Comments (collection + single endpoint each)
• API scopes: mc_dm_category and mc_dm_download (read, write, delete_hard)
• Webhook event handlers: Download, Version, File, Comment, Review

AdminCP

• Single tabbed option group for Downloads Manager
• Admin navigation: Categories, Fields, Prefixes, Review Fields, Criteria Gates, Audit Log, Batch Update, Permissions, Options
• Cron entries: hard delete, audit-log prune, scheduled publish, statistics rollup, share-token prune, rate-bucket eviction, fetch retry
• Style properties for customization