Like some others mentioned here I really think this should be in Joomla core.

Its great for adding attachments and offers users another way of adding content if they are scared about editing pages since they can simply attach word docs etc aswell.

It is dead easy to use and very user friendly from the front end which is in my opinion vital.

Just one word of warning: I almost gave up on this attachment after installing it on a local testing server as I received a number of errors relating to imageresize.php in the front end. I think these relate to not having imagemagik installed on my local server. When I installed it on 1and1 on a live site however everything worked fine and I discovered the 'edit' and 'delete' functionality in the front end which, because the images didn't show up on my local testing server, I did not realise were there.

So perhaps imageresize is not necessary for the icons and this might enhance compatibility across more servers.

I am sure this is a very well written plugin but the real spoiler for me is that it requires a Joomla hack to put it in a module.

For me that just isn't on as I do not want Joomla updates to screw up any modules that I will have carefully created. Its just one more potential problem that I don't need.

This is a desperately needed addition to Joomla, something I really think should be standard in the Joomla core.

That said there are a few problems with this as it stands.

Firstly it does not seem to create links to edit correctly- for example the Camel link to edit one of my content items was :-
index.php?view=article&id=91&task=edit&option=com_content&Itemid=91
and it should have been:-
index.php?view=article&id=91&task=edit&option=com_content&Itemid=123
(notice the Itemid is incorrect) what this means is that although users get taken to the right page to edit that edit box is embedded within the page that has the other itemID which just looks really sloppy, confusing and unprofessional.

It also does not generate the long return string (although I don't know what that is for)

And not sure if it was just me but I could not get it to show the user name in the generated grid.

It also could do with some usability tweaks, i.e. you should be able to choose how the date is displayed as for non techies in the UK the current display is confusing, the title could do with being linkable and the published yes/no could do with being clickable a-la the admin back end.

Regards the admin back end, this is pretty poor aswell with the component section seeming to just re-list your articles as a complete mess and offer virtually no customisation options which is what should really be in there.

That said- keep up with the good work. At the moment the component needs manual hacking to be usable 'off the shelf' but hopefully with future releases this will improve.

I've spent most of this week trying to find a way to make Joomla do what this does after a client decided they wanted to have their clients in different categories in the 'cleints' section but still display their news as if it was just a single category list!

So yep cannot fault the component, it does what it says it does.