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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More Options

This second tutorial covers some options of enhancing the File Management System.

To give you an idea of what more is possible, have a look at the list below. Compared to Part 1 of this tutorial, even more options have been added.

1. Editing the Delete link to keep the URL parameters.
2. Displaying message when File List is empty.
3. Displaying Extension in Uppercase.
4. Adding File List Navigation.
5. Adding a Force Download.
6. Adding a Thumbnails/Details toggle.
7. Adding an Extension filter.
8. Using Office attributes.
9. Adding a Folder View to the Folder List.
10. Adding Tooltips.
11. Integrating the Lightbox Extension.
12. Creating Folders.
13. Uploading Files and Images.
14. Uploading multiple files.
15. Uploading and extracting ZIP-files.
16. Creating ZIP-files.
17. Exporting lists.