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Anders Hattestad
Jan 8, 2013
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Upload within Xform

Sometimes one would like to enable users to upload files in a Xform. Based on my blog post about extending xforms, I have added an upload function.

I check if an textbox have a css class called FileUpload. If it has it will replace that textbox with an upload function.

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So it will look something like this

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It handles also more than one file

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The stuff that will be saved is like this

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The code will upload files to a seperate VPP folder

      <add showInFileManager="true" virtualName="XformFiles"
        virtualPath="~/XformFiles/" bypassAccessCheck="true" 
           physicalPath="C:\EPiServer\VPP\XformFiles"
        name="XformFiles" type="EPiServer.Web.Hosting.VirtualPathNativeProvider,EPiServer" />
I havent testet the code with CMS7 thou.
The code is uploaded here 
Jan 08, 2013

Comments

Daniel Pålsson
Daniel Pålsson Jan 9, 2013 08:47 AM

Looks really interesting, but how would you go about to attach the uploaded file to the outgoing mail?

Anders Hattestad
Anders Hattestad Jan 9, 2013 09:06 AM

That will be easy. Just attach to the BeforeSubmitPostedData event
Check if ((e.FormData.ChannelOptions & ChannelOptions.Email) != ChannelOptions.Email) is true
then send the custom mail and remove the send mail option
e.FormData.ChannelOptions &= ~ChannelOptions.Email;

Luc Gosso (MVP)
Luc Gosso (MVP) Jan 9, 2013 12:00 PM

You´ve made it easy for us, and it works! thats fantastic.

Except when you have validation on the field, then it always display empty.

I have tried to add the "oldFiles" to the field but it doesn't work. Any idea?

if (item.Attributes["value"] == null)
{
var value = item.OwnerDocument.CreateAttribute("value");
item.Attributes.Append(value);
}
item.Attributes["value"].Value = oldFiles;

Im hooked up with BeforeSubmitPostedData and that seems to be working.

Ive also noticed that the form editor is not working 100% in FF. Works in IE. Epi6 SP2.

Jan 18, 2013 10:35 AM

Is there any way you can encrypt the form data before it is submitted into the database?

Jul 16, 2013 04:33 PM

This is really useful, and it works in CMS7.1 without any changes.

Feb 26, 2014 10:16 AM

Does this work for EPiServer 7.5?

Sep 4, 2014 01:46 PM

Do you have some example code on how to attach the uploaded files to the BeforeSubmitPostedData event in Global.asax.cs?

I haven't succeeded to get it to work. The files are uploaded to the VPP folder, but I am not sure how to get it attached to the email.

Does anyone have some example code for this?

Marcus W
Marcus W Apr 28, 2015 03:55 PM

EPiServer 7.1

I had to add: useRouting="true" here to get it to Virtual map the file correctly.

"true" virtualName="XformFiles"
        virtualPath="~/XformFiles/" bypassAccessCheck="true" 
           physicalPath="C:\EPiServer\VPP\XformFiles"
        name="XformFiles" type="EPiServer.Web.Hosting.VirtualPathNativeProvider,EPiServer"  useRouting="true"/>

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