Comments on: EPiServer: Using the new Unified File System

By: HesaPesa

HesaPesa — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 20:16:00 +0000

using EPiServer.Web.Hosting;

By: Fredrik Haglund

Fredrik Haglund — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 14:40:28 +0000

K: Setting bypassaccesscheck to true in web.config for a Virtual Path Provider turns off security. A visitor that does not have access to edit or admin mode can usually not change the files.

I suggest that you read the Administrators Manual (http://world.episerver.com/en/Documentation/Categories/Documentation-Type/Manuals/) and find the chapter about file security.

/Fredrik

By: K

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 12:31:18 +0000

Hi
When trying to get a file by:
UnifiedFile file = HostingEnvironment.VirtualPathProvider.GetFile(virtualPath) as UnifiedFile;

I get access denied if i dont set “bypassaccesscheck = true” in web.config. I wonder where i can set credentials for this access if its even possible? Does setting bypassaccesscheck to true make the files unsecure in any way or whats the consequenses?

thanks in advance

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Page Folders and Uploading of files in EPiServer | Fredrik Haglund's blog — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 08:29:37 +0000

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By: Jørgen Helgheim

Jørgen Helgheim — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 08:08:55 +0000

Hi Fredrik

Thanks for this post. It was very useful!

But I got errors (GDI+) when using The suggested Bitmap save method. Instead I used Morten Leerhøy’s stream alternative. It worked fine! Deleted the last line of code: fs.Close();. It raised an exception, because it is already closed by sw.Close();

By: Andrew

Andrew — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 08:30:11 +0000

Thanks, I have figure out this myself.
To have ability to check-in or check-out UnifiedFile file, it should be converted to IVersionFile using method “TryAsVersioningFile”.

By: Fredrik Haglund

Fredrik Haglund — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 09:18:06 +0000

Hi Andrew!

I need to see some code to help you. Post in the forum and get back: http://world.episerver.com/Forum/

By: Andrew

Andrew — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 12:56:33 +0000

Hi. Fredrik
When I create file in VPP dynamically from stream it stays checked out and I fail to read it. I’m receiving following error: “File has no checked in version and can only be access by the author”. Could you help me with fixing this?

By: Morten Leerhøy

Morten Leerhøy — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 08:00:37 +0000

Hi Frederik,

Thanks for this post – it cleared up a few things for me – though I can’t seem to get the UnifiedFile.UnifiedFileCheckedIn event to fire when adding a file with:

UnifiedFile uf = pagedir.CreateFile(FileUpLoad.FileName);
Stream fs = uf.Open(FileMode.Create);
System.IO.BinaryWriter sw = new BinaryWriter(fs);
sw.Write(FileUpLoad.FileBytes);
sw.Flush();
sw.Close();
fs.Close();

any suggestions?

By: Morten Strand-Langbakk

Morten Strand-Langbakk — Thu, 22 May 2008 14:20:17 +0000

Solved it.
Whenever a file is added the UnifiedFile.UnifiedFileCheckedIn is also called.
I put my code in here and evrything works as a charm

By: Morten Strand-Langbakk

Morten Strand-Langbakk — Thu, 22 May 2008 13:01:30 +0000

Hi Fredrik.
Great posts on the new Unified File System. I have avtually more a question than a comment on your blog.

Do you know when in the event stack the filesummary for a UnifiedFile is created and stored ?

I have hooked into the UnifiedDirectory.UnifiedFileAdded event to add som data to the filesummary in code, but at this point the file.Summary is still null, so I cannot add my summary data…

file.Summary.Dictionary["Searchmetadata"] = “some metadata I want to have indexed”;

By: Fredrik Haglund

Fredrik Haglund — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 19:51:32 +0000

Jonas, EPiServer XForms is their own framwork to let editors build forms without knowing anything about html. Do not misstake it for being the same as the proposed standard for forms in xhtml from w3c.

By: Jonas

Jonas — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 16:30:35 +0000

Thanx for the answer. That is how I will solve the problem.

Well, at least there is no support for file upload in the EPiServer xforms. There seems to be one according to x3c
http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Forms/2003/xforms-for-html-authors.html#FileSelect

By: Fredrik Haglund

Fredrik Haglund — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 22:18:24 +0000

Jonas, there is no support from to upload files with xforms (as far as I know).

If you want that functionality you would have to implement it on the page template either below the xform or on the thank you page.

Use ASP.NET’s FileUpload component and then use the stream available on yourFileUpload.PostedFile.InputStream.

By: Jonas

Jonas — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 17:01:27 +0000

So one way to upload a file by a visitor from a (public) form would be to use the Unified File System as described above? What I mean is, there is no EPiServer xform way?

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Configure EPiServer File Manager | Fredrik Haglund's blog — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 00:41:06 +0000

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