Can't get channel files to work

Question

I have been trying to add a channel field where I can allow the user to upload files with ease especially PDF files. I just bought the "Channel Files" module but I cannot get it to work for me. The problem is that I cannot see the files on the page where i'm trying to upload the files. It seems to work perfectly fine on the publishing page and I am able to upload files there. I think I just didn't get the code right on the template.

     <div class="files">
     {exp:channel_files:files channel="news" field="section"}
     <a href="{file:title}">{file:title}</a>
     {/exp:channel_files:files}
     </div>    

Answer 1

Actually if you are using this within an entry, it is easiest to just use the field name.

{exp:channel:entries channel="whatever" limit="1"}

{my_files_custom_field}
<a href="{file:url}">{file:title}</a>
{/my_files_custom_field}

{/exp:channel:entries}

If that doesn't work and you get empty values for the url and title you are most likely having some variable collision. Most likely you called the channel field "files".

So do this then

{exp:channel:entries channel="whatever" limit="1"}

{my_files_custom_field prefix="cf"}
<a href="{cf:url}">{cf:title}</a>
{/my_files_custom_field}

{/exp:channel:entries}

You will see here I am changing the variable prefix so it doesn't conflict with another variable called "files".

Answer 2

The channel files tag pair displays the files associated with a specific entry, so for troubleshooting purposes, have you tried to remove all of the parameters to see what the tag pair returns? If you do this:

{exp:channel_files:files}
 <a href="{file:url}">{file:title}</a>
{/exp:channel_files:files}

Do you get anything within your template (I'm ignoring for the moment any possibility that you have multiple channel file fields within your channel)?