How to download files from tx_news listView?

Question

i'm currently working on a TYPO3 6.2 site using tx_news.

My goal is that a user can use the listView directly to download a related file, like it was possible in TT_news with type download.

The problem is in TX_news is only type news, internal page, external page available. I dont really want to extend news that much to generate a new news type.

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I got two possible solutions:

Use external page as link to file

Problem:

I dont really want the user to type the external file link into these fields, since its a bigger project with many files.

Use sys_category and link the "more" field to related file

Problem:

I need a hardcoded check in the template files for the "File Download Category" UID. What if this changes, or in a year some new people need to maintain this.

This is possible with some template like this, but as is said before, this is an ugly hardcoded check in a template file:

<f:for each="{newsItem.categories}" as="category" iteration="catIterator">
</f:for>

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Any help is very appreciated, if someone knows a better, cleaner solution.

Answer 1

To clarify: With 'listView' you mean a list of news items?

If so, You could add a TemplateLayout to display only the URLs of the related files.

Answer 2

tx_news provides the news type "Internal Link", too. With this type, it is possible to create a direct link to a file (on your webspace), page, folder or email.

HTH.