Forum OpenACS Q&A: Is Ajax-File-Storage-UI an alternative UI for the package?

1: Is Ajax-File-Storage-UI an alternative UI for the package?

Posted by Richard Hamilton on 09/28/09 10:20 PM

Just noticed this in the repository. Is this an optional alternative front-end for File-Storage or is it something else entirely?

2: Re: Is Ajax-File-Storage-UI an alternative UI for the package? (response to 1)

Posted by Dave Bauer on 09/28/09 10:23 PM

It an ajax based front-end for file storage.

3: Re: Is Ajax-File-Storage-UI an alternative UI for the package? (response to 2)

Posted by Richard Hamilton on 09/28/09 10:53 PM

Thanks Dave, sounds good, I'll have a look at that.

4: Re: Is Ajax-File-Storage-UI an alternative UI for the package? (response to 2)

Posted by Don Baccus on 09/28/09 11:07 PM

This is one that would be good to rewrite to extend filestorage, in fact I've done that experimentally but don't seem to have kept it .... extending a package takes care of the copying of parameters, calling of instantiate, etc that ajax-file-storage does (in fact it's very close to manually implementing the package extends concept).

5: Re: Is Ajax-File-Storage-UI an alternative UI for the package? (response to 4)

Posted by Richard Hamilton on 09/28/09 11:18 PM

So if I understand, that would that enable it to play nicely with Layout-Manager?

As an aside, I note that when the File-Storage includelet appears in the site-map it is named 'Documents' even though in my case the original File-Storage module is mounted with the name 'File-Storage'. Of course it can easily be renamed but the other includelets have matching names. Was that something I did or is it hard-coded somewhere?

6: Re: Is Ajax-File-Storage-UI an alternative UI for the package? (response to 1)

Posted by Dave Bauer on 09/29/09 12:55 AM

Making an ajax-fs an extension of file-storage doesn't affect how to deals with the layout manager.

It is a good idea though!

Stay tuned we might have an even better solution though.

7: Re: Is Ajax-File-Storage-UI an alternative UI for the package? (response to 6)

Posted by Richard Hamilton on 09/29/09 01:14 AM

Sounds intriguing!