Hey All,

Does anyone know how to make the "FileDialog" open at a given folder and use that as it's root?

Here's my scenario.

I need to give a user access to the file upload/managment dialog.  I want to do this from within a custom control (Preferably by using the FileBrowserTextBoxExtender control, or a derivitive of it) , however I need the filedialog to only open in one folder (not the users name folder) that lives in the site data folder, and not be able to go back up above that folder.

The user needs to have full create/upload/delete access on said folder.

The need behind this is to allow a person to upload zip files to a given folder only, that is then used by another person at a different location to select the uploaded file and insert a link to that file into another custom control which then builds up a specialised list of links after combining with other information from the DB.

The person entering the list items will not be at the same location that the source files will be uploaded from.

I can see that it would be fairly easy to create my own "FileBrowserTextBoxExtender" and make use of the "dir" parameter that can be passed to the "FileDialog" control, but in all the testing I've done so far the "FileDialog" seems to ignore the "dir" parameter

Hi Joe,

Thanks for the reply, detailed as usual :-)

I think I'm probably going to go for the single page with a file upload control on, at most the uploader will need to see a list of files uploaded to this specific forced directory, so I think a simple custom control, to list what's there already with a file browse/upload button is the way to go.

What's the best way to detect (In my custom control form load) if the user browsing to the page has upload privliges in thier account, can I just use something in the user "roles" collection, or is there a specific flag/function to check?

Thanks again Joe.

Where getting closer to deploying our Mojo Setup on Lidnug, the code I'm writing at the moment is to allow our event managment team to manage our event recordings.

I figured out that I can just use the normal Page/Webpart security for controlling who see's what on the page, so in the end I didn't need to do any checking "As you suspected" :-)

I'm also thinking of doing a blog post or two on my experiences with developing in Mojo, particularly with regards to updating how I've done things in an easier way under VS2010 compared to the articles you have documenting the VS2008 methods.

Lastly I'd like to ask, if you would be interested in doing a live online presentation on Lidnug and introducing MojoPortal to our member base, if you are interested then contact me directly using my email registered with this forum and we'll discuss the details.

We currently have over 48,000 members world wide, we often get attendances of around a 100 (Sometimes more depending on the topic & speaker) then afterwards every recording get's added to our dedicated Lidnug you-tube channel (Which anyone is free to browse)

PS: Forgive me asking here, but I was looking for a more direct way of putting the question to you, but couldn't find one.

Cheers

Shawty