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I'm using Drupal 7 and the latest version of Ubercart and the recommended modules for it. The site that I'm building only has three prodcuts, they are animated gifs. I don't want people to be able to download them (only view them, I know its kinda odd, but the site is for my Grandmother) and I need the checkout method to be quick. I managed to create the products and add in google checkout (although I'm thinking express checkout from PayPal might be faster).

How would I set up Ubercart so that after selecting which product they want and paying for it, the animation plays right away or links them to the page. Also I was wondering if anyone had some suggestions on how to speed up the purchase process to as few steps as possible. I'm new to using Drupal and just started learning PHP, so I'm a little slow on getting everything configured correctly.

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I dont understand the difference between "download" and "view"

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Download: Copy (data) from one computer system to another or to a disk.

View: The ability to see something or to be seen from a particular place.

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Okay, I guess the key is the keeping of the copy, which makes sense

These days, to "view" something means to download at least a temporary copy, which may or may not be saveable, depending on how well-managed the digital rights are.

So, I guess you would want to have version of the gif in the catalog (maybe non-animated, or something) and then, when therre is a purchase, a link to the downloadable full version. That seems pretty straightforward following the file download recipes.

However, I do not know whether this is working in D7 yet. Anybody?

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Thanks for the response. I

Thanks for the response.

I will have to try that with Drupal 6, I was really starting to like Drupal 7 over 6 but so many modules have still not caught up with it yet.

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A work-around would be to use rules to send an email to the buyer saying "link here" to download the file, and then use a security-looking url. I did that anyway when I was downloading files because the customers kept screwing up their "one" download.

Oh great Mollommed!