Dynamically Map Server Folders

[Dave Navarro]

Hello everyone,

I'm planning to use radUpload in my project but I'm wondering how to map my upload directory to my App_Data folder. We have different companies using our application and I wish to dynamically set the folder that they'll use with the App_Data folder.

Does anyone have a code snippet they can share for setting this in the code-behind?

Please let me know and thanks,

~ Dave

[Tina Stancheva]

Hello Dave,

I'm posting the KB article I pointed you to in the support ticket, just in case, other encounter the same issue:

 Customize the Upload Storage - the article describes an approach for implementing such a scenario.

Greetings,
Tina Stancheva
the Telerik team

[Dave Navarro]

Hello,

I implemented an easy fix which surprised me. I've asked (via my support ticket) if this was an accceptable method and was told yes, so I can't help wonder how I missed it the first time.

In any case, what I'm doing is; I've setup some properties in my app.xaml.cs that act as session variables for my SL4 project. After the user logs into the app (started with the MS Business Template) I simply populate the properties as needed.

One of them is called app.strServerName. So, in my code behind for the file that has the radUpload control on it I simply set the TargetFolder property like this; this.radUpload.TargetFolder = "App_Data/Alpha/" + app.strServerName + "/India/Echo";

This allows me to have a dynamic folder structure within my App_Data folder. Each company can have their own parent folder name and I keep the folder names in a table on the server which holds our authentication db. Which of course is the one provided by the Business Template from the start.

I can now add new server names as needed when new companies sign up to use our application. And by keeping the information in the authentication db I can keep it nice and organized in one place. If I need to change their folder name I can make the change in one place and the users will get redirected the next time they log in.

Anyway, that's what I did. I hope this helps someone down the road.

Take care,

~ Dave

[Rob]

I can also change the TargetUrl from code behind in Silverlight without problem. However, if the folder does not exist on the Web Server, I would like to dynamically create it.

I thought that creating a Constructor in my handler would do the trick but even though the code reaches here (I created a simple breakpoint) the value of TargetUrl at this point is null.

Is there a way of checking the target folder on the ASP.NET side and creating it dynamically?

Thanks,
Rob

[Alex Fidanov]

Hello Rob,

 The Target(Physical)Folder property is a virtual one, so you can override it and manually determine the destination folder. Please let me know if that is acceptable in your scenario?

Greetings,
Alex Fidanov
the Telerik team

[Rob]

I have implemented a workable solution by pre-creating the folders at the time of creating the parent listing. This works for me.