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Summary

This explains the process of creating an attachment for a page. The basics steps are to upload a file to the server and then define the attributes for the attachment and then include those attributes in the topic page.

NOTE

Uploads and attachments are an optional capability and are not enabled for the site http://www.flexwiki.com

For this to work the flexwiki.config must have an entry that looks something like:

 <ContentUploadPath>content\upload</ContentUploadPath>

The upload directory must be created as a sub-directory of the wiki root and there must be sub-directories to hold the various kinds of files uploaded

• html, doc, files, images

The maximum size of files is controlled by the machine web.config with a default of 4MB, unless overridden by a local web.config (showing a 20MB maximum)

 <httpRuntime maxRequestSize="20480" />

There are 3 kinds of attachment covered in this implementation

• Normal attachment - a link to an uploaded file with an image showing it is an attachment
• File Folder attachment - a link to an uploaded file where the topic is an electronic version of an administrative clerks file folder
• Document Management attachment - a link to a file that is being used for document management versioning (very lightweight)

There are some attached files near the bottom of this page.

SampleFileAttachment contains a sample file folder topic created using the _TemplateFileFolder.

SampleDocManAttachment contains a sample document management page created using the _TemplateDocMan.

Item1_todo

add more file types and sub-folders to hold uploads

Item2_todo

automate the selection of icons for different file types rather than using a single default for all types