Forum OpenACS Q&A: RFC: Remake of file-storage

I'm not sure about permissions and webdav, however, about the UI, I can point you to our ajax file storage interface.

http://www.solutiongrove.info/companyb/files/

Login : UserB
Pass : 123

It's also the same place where you can see the UI of the help system. Just click the "Help" link .

AjaxFS will fall back to the old user interface if javascript is off.

Best,

Hamilton

My target for putting the code on head is end of this week. I am still deliberating whether I should make ajaxhelper a dependency.

It's possible to make it stand alone from ajaxhelper if I were to grab only the relevant javascript and style sheets, minify and then compress. This will result in much lighter code as far as javascript is concerned.

Let me know if you need it sooner.

The help system you see in the demo is UI only. I had originally intended to use it for the help system that Nima wrote but I wasn't able to contact Nima about it. The one in the demo uses a flat file with help text. The system knows which help text to display based on the url.

I can send you a zipped copy of the code if you like.

Best,

Ham

Anyone who worked on meaningful permissions and webdav?

Haven't looked at other cms but I could imaging rights like:

create new items
read existing items
update items (modify, new version)
delete items
admin item (permissions)

Any ideas?

It should be possible to set the rights in a way that the following scenarios are supported:

- a user can only read his own items
- a user can upload but not delete an item
- a user can only update her own items
- a user can update but not delete items

and the like.

Currently only read, write and admin are meaningful. If you have write permissions you can delete items of other users in a folder.

The current webdav support doesnt work for microsoft properly. Dave mentioned another module that might be better. Any experience with it?

Try double clicking on the item in the right panel.

If you double click a file it will either download the file if your browser doesn't know how to handle it or open the file.

When a folder is double clicked, it is opened and the tree pane will select the folder you double clicked and reveal its contents on the right panel.

I guess it's not very obvious so I will probably add "Download" when you right click.

Best,

Ham

You're both right it wasn't working on that demo. Seems I disabled it for some reason. It should be working again now :-)

I still can't get it to work! Sorry. :-)

Brian

Also scenarios as described are not definable.

Also webdav doesn't work very well with microsoft. it sure is a microsoft issue but that I cannot tell the users. they want it to work properly. thus the question is: has anyone take a deeper look into what is required to be done to get it work smoothly?

I am testing ajax-filestorage-ui. I have installed the package rightly but when I open one folder I get the next error:

"Sorry, we encountered an error rendering the tree panel"

and nothing is displayed. In the log I have not any message.
The same in Firefox and IE.
I have download ajax* packages from head.

Do you know where could be the problem, please?

Thanks,
Agustin

Yes, now it is working.

I will like to use that filestorage alternatively
with the old. That will be user election. Is it possible?
One parameter to do that? One flag in the index.adp?

Thanks,
Agustin

I'm glad you got it working. My recommendation is to add a parameter in the file storage package (e.g. UseAjaxUi)

Then in the index.tcl and index.adp of your file storage package. You can check for the value of this parameter.

Best,

Hamilton