RadEditor Imagemanager viewpath

[Sandeep]

Hello,
I'm using radEditor in my ASP.net application but i want to set view path of ImageManager runtime.
My Images directory is on differnt server so I created virtual directory in my application which is pointing to that server,
I have differnt images for each user so there are one folder per user. so i want to display user specific images to particular user. As do not want to see all images uploaded by  other user.

Can anybody help me to find solution for this issue.

Thanks in Advance,
Sandeep
 

[Rumen]

Hello Sandeep,

It is standard practice to have your users' IDs stored in a database of your CMS, and create a specific folder for each user when a user account is created. Then, when a user is logged and wishes to use the editor, setting the user's folder for this particular logged user is a matter of a single line of code, such as

  RadEditor1.ImageManager.ViewPaths = New String() {"~/Images/" + LOGGEDUSERID }

Thus each user will have access only to his/her folder, and be able to do whatever you let them do, without interfering with other users (and yes, if you have 100 users you will need to create 100 folders).

The only other way is for you to implement your own image manager with your own security and user authentication/authorization that handles your custom logic of determining and distinguishing what user uploaded what file, and what user has the right to delete what file.

Greetings,
Rumen
the Telerik team

[Parimala]

Hello Telerik Team,

My issue is similar. What I need to do is I don't want to create a folder for each user, whenever the user clicks on the image manager and click  Insert then it needs to create the folder for the user and upload the image. Because every day hundred user enters and its keep accumulating with folders, most of the folder don't have images, it's just an empty folder.

I want to create the folder only if the user want to add a image, and also the user should not see other user folder(this can be avoided by having the view path pointing to the folder name, but I don't want to create the folder until unless they insert the image). Then how to set the viewpath and upload path which is pointing to the shared location.

Thanks in advance
Regards
Parimala

[Dobromir]

Hi Parimala,

RadEditor does not offer the functionality to achieve the required result. Nevertheless, I would suggest you to handle this scenario on application level.

1. When user logs in to the website create a separate folder and set it to the ViewPaths / UploadPaths / DeletePaths of ImageManager.
2. When the user logs out check the folder's content and if it is empty delete the folder.

All the best,
Dobromir
the Telerik team

[Kristopher]

Hi Telerik!

Can i use UNC path in radeditor ImageManager ViewPaths?

Thanks,

[Ivaylo]

Hi Kristopher,

I am afraid that UNC path strings are not supported in the Image Manager, unless you have implemented a custom content provider for the Editor. You can read more about Custom File Dialogs Content Providers in our online demos.

Such provider is available in this KB article: Use RadFileExplorer with physical and shared folder's paths

More detailed information on how to implement a custom content provider is available in the following help article, since the FileExplorer is a child control for the ImageManager dialog:
Using custom FileBrowserContentProvider

If you have any other questions, do not hesitate to contact us.

Regards,
Ivaylo
Telerik