I work with several government agencies and non-profits, both of which generate tremendous amounts of PDF documentation that needs to be made available for download. Using the media downloads as it's designed now works like this:
- Start creating a page. Realize you need to upload a document to the page.
- Go to media downloads.
- Go find the file on your hard drive and note the name of it
- Come back to media downloads, type in the name of the document
- Choose the file format of the document
- Save the media download item
- Upload the actual file for the media download
- Go back to the page you started creating
- Add a link, search for media download to insert
At the very least this process needs to be able to happen inside of the webpage editor in a modal window (similar to image manager). Ideally it'd also be simplified like this:
- Choose file you want to upload
- Title & file-type are automatically filled in for you, with the option to modify both
- Save & insert
WordPress does this, LightCMS can handle it, and so does almost everyone else - so why can't Adobe figure it out? I know literature/media items are a little more advanced (limiting access, tracking stats, etc) than simply uploading a file in WordPress, but I think it's high time that this process was streamlined.
