While things have been pretty crazy the last few months (and don't look to be getting any less crazy any time soon), I have had a chance to spend some time on a few of my Drupal modules over the last week or two, so I thought it would be prudent to post a few of the changes in a quick blog post.

FileField Paths

While there isn't yet a new point release for FileField Paths, I have added a great new feature: Active Updates. Active Updates is basically 'Retroactive Updates' minus the 'Retroactive', File fields with the 'Active Updates' turned on will have their paths/names updated as their respective tokens are updated.

Browsing through the Drupal.org support forums the other day, I came across an interesting support request, something that I just had to see if I could solve, maybe a niche issue, but something that really appealed to me.

The user was wanting to know if they could have files uploaded to specific directories based on the taxonomy term chosen, but not specifically in the same structure of the taxonomy tree or with the values of the taxonomy terms.

For example:

• Term 'A' uploads files to directory 'X'.
• Term 'B' uploads files to directory 'X/Y'.
• Term 'C' uploads files to directory 'G/X'.
• Term 'D' uploads files to directory 'P'.

As my experience with Drupal has shown, nothing is impossible, everything is achievable. And I knew with a little elbow grease this should be achievable with my FileField Paths module.

FileField Paths has just hit version 1.3.

The biggest change in this latest version is an improved modular system allowing for better integration options, demonstrated with support for two new modules, the Image module and the Comment Upload module.

Other changes include improved support for the ImageField Crop module, Dutch and Danish translations and various bug fixes.

While it hasn't even been a month since FileField Paths version 1.1 was released, version 1.2 is now out, bringing with it many fixes and a few new features.

For more information about the new features of the 1.2 release, see my previous post which has all the details.
As for the bug fixes, I'm happy to say that the recursion issue that had been plaguing me issue queue for many months, yet always eluding me, has finally been purged.

Over the last few days I've made some much needed updates to the 'Retroactive changes' functionality of FileField Paths, including the minor change of renaming it to 'Retroactive updates'.