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.

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Server settings

To be able to follow all the steps in this tutorial completely, a few settings are necessary.

First of all, your website should contain a main folder. In this tutorial this folder is named media. In this folder create multiple subfolders that will contain the files for use on your website.

On the webserver, make sure that the Internet Guest Account has write permissions on the main folder, and that these permission are inherited on every subfolder in the main folder.  

Have a look at the chapter called Folder security on your server in the Pure ASP Upload 3 tutorial. This   explains in details how the server permissions need to be set. You can find this tutorial at http://www.dmxzone.com/go?12067&LinkFile=folder_security_on_your.htm

Note: File Genie only supports one level of folders, so don't create any sub-subfolders as these can not be viewed with this File Management System.