Re: File Attachment Utility

Are you open to using an Adobe Flash/Flex plugin on the client? I
haven't done this but it shouldn't be too hard to have an RPG-CGI app
that receives in uploaded files from the Flash/Flex component.

Here are some examples:
http://weblog.cahlan.com/files/FileUpload/FileUploadApp.html
http://www.tink.ws/blog/files/flash8/FileReferenceExample.html

HTH,
Aaron Bartell
http://mowyourlawn.com

On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 2:05 PM, Nathan Andelin <nandelin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi Folks,

I could use some advise on a File Attachment Utility. I'm just now
working on it. A couple screen shots are at the following link:

http://www.radile.com/rdweb/apps/ptl/xat160/attach.html

The idea is to place an "Attach" tab on any standard maintenance screen
to attach files to any other entity. The screen shots show a Person
maintenance screen, but the idea is to be able to attach files to
anything I may have in my database. In a project maintenance screen,
you might attach various documents to a project record.

A utility, in other words. In "view" mode you can browse and open
attachments. In "add" mode you can browse the network to upload and
attach files to things.

This utility is working except for the most important part; uploading
and storing files in the IFS. That's where I could use some advise.

I've downloaded the FUPLOAD utility from www.easy400.net and looked at
the RPG source code. FUPLOAD has it's own user interface, so it would
take some work to make it interact with my utility. Nevertheless I
appreciate Giovanni Perotti for his open-source work. Before I charge
forward with that, are there any other suggestions?

Thanks,

Nathan.