Creating a File Management System with File Genie Support

In this article Patrick will show you how to built a simple File Management System in ASP using File Genie and Pure ASP Upload 3. He will first take you through the steps of creating a basic structure in which the information will be displayed and where the navigation will take place. Next he will walk you through creating a form for adding files.

To end this article Patrick will show you a couple of possibilities for adding extra options to this basic File Management System.

Changing layout

The creation of the File Management System up until now was all about getting it to work. To integrate this tool into an existing website, you can change the layout of text and tables they way you please.  In our tutorial we chose to create an Explorer-like style.

In our example we create a separate CSS-file that holds all the CSS classes for the File Management System.  Through the use of this CSS-file, all headings, text, links, tables, forms and buttons were given a change of layout.

Feel free to edit your page as you wish, to make sure that it completely fits your needs.

More Options

This first tutorial only covers the basics of creating a File Management System with the options to Add and Delete Files from selected folders. In future tutorials we will extend the capabilities of the File Management System with several useful options.

To give you an idea of what more is possible, have a look at this list:

1. Hide Quick-Add form if no folder is selected.
2. Adding a Folder View to the Folder List.
3. Changing the header to display the name of the selected folder.
4. Adding a Thumbnails/Details toggle.
5. Adding a sort option for all columns in the File List.
6. Adding Tooltips.
7. Integrating the Lightbox Extension.
8. Creating Folders.
9. Uploading Files and Images.
10. Uploading multiple files.
11. Uploading and extracting ZIP-files.
12. Creating ZIP-files.
13. Exporting lists.