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Creating a File Management System with File Genie - part 2
Enhance the options of the simple File Management System
In this article Patrick will show you how to enhance the options of the simple File Management System that was created in the article Creating a File Management System with File Genie – part 1. First he will show you how to give the File Management System the Explorer-style, that could be seen in the first article. Next he will hide the Quick-Add form, when no folder has been selected. After that the header will be edited, in such a way that the name of the selected folder will appear in the header of the File List.
To end this article Patrick will walk you through a couple of steps to enable sorting of all columns.
Before you begin
If you have completed all the steps in the article Creating a File Management System with File Genie – part 1, your site was setup and you have the basic page available from which this article will continue.
If you want to follow this article without having gone through the first one, make sure to setup your site in Dreamweaver first before creating a page, if you don't know how to do this please read this.
Download the source code from the first article at
http://www.dmxzone.com/go?16818
Used extensions
To complete all the steps in this tutorial the latest versions of File Genie and Pure Upload have to be installed.
Login, download the products, and lookup your serial at http://www.dmxzone.com/myZone.asp?Section=purchases
Get the latest extension manager from Adobe at
http://www.adobe.com/exchange/em_download/
Open the .mxp file (the extension manager should start-up) and install the extension.
If you experience problems please read the FAQ at http://www.dmxzone.com/index.asp?TypeId=7&CatId=687 before contacting support.
Patrick Julicher
Patrick started developing websites at the age of 25, only using HTML and building simple websites. Through the years his passion for designing and developing grew, and his career moved in that direction in the year 2004, when he decided to try and get a job in ICT and Web Development.
He got this chance at WE ICT, based in Nijmegen, The Netherlands. For the first couple of years he combined network management for customers with creating database-driven websites in ASP. Since 2008 his main work is on the developing part.
While ASP is still his favorite language, he's slowly trying to dive into ASP.NET and discover all of the possibilities.