By monkeybeach on

I'm pretty sure this doesn't exist after spending some time looking this morning, but I need a file attachment system that allows user to look in a folder (files or subfolder of it potentially) and see if a file exists in there already that they would want to attach.

Anyone seen anything like this? I know the TinyMCE image attach system works much like I'd want this to so that's possibly a starting point if there's nothing already working this way for general files.

Thanks

R

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monkeybeach commented

Still need to find something that will allow me to FTP (literally) 1000's of pdf's in a folder structure, then give a means of browsing them.

Fileshare is an ideal interface, but in common with all upload tools lacks any ability for mass uploads / reading and indexing files from a directory on the server.

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WorldFallz commented

You could use the attachment / filemanager modules (they avoid the nasty problem of files with the same name) for the actual attaching of files then add either Filebrowser or Fileview modules for people to easily browse them with a folder like interface.

There's also a module called "Web File Manager", but I have no experience with that one.

For simply uploading and browsing without actually "attaching" you could look at the IMCE module. Although originally intended for images, I use it with other types of uploaded files with no problem.

Oh, and for searching those attachments you might want to take a look at the switch-e and/or search_attachments modules.

Hope that helps...

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monkeybeach commented

Thanks for the reply. I'm looking at IMCE and switching it to normal files. Think I've hit the right options but when I try to insert a file from the upload area into a textarea it just gives me an HTML image tag with the src as the path of the file instead of the usual image.

Any idea what I've missed? Feels like its probably something simple but I've overlooked it.

TIA

R

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WorldFallz commented

In order to use it with non-image files you have to click on the "Link" hyperlink (below the body text window is says "Insert image or link") or if using Tinymce, click on the link button on the toolbar (looks like a link from a chain).

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monkeybeach commented

I knew I was making a daft mistake! Thanks m8, much obliged.

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WorldFallz commented

no worries, i've done it myself. 8)