Upload image using a Dialog: possible?

[Rida Alhasan]

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Hi,
Is it possible to upload an image using a Dialog component? For example, a user self-registration Dialog where the user inputs his personal information plus uploads an image of himself.

Regards,
Felix
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[christappan]

Re: Upload image using a Dialog: possible?

I can't speak confidently on the dialog component, but I know with the Grid component, the record had to exist prior to the upload--i.e. you couldn't upload when inserting the record, which is probably what you''re wanting to do with the dialog component.

[Rida Alhasan]

Upload image using a Dialog: possible?

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Hi Chris,
Yes, you are right. What I want is to create using a Dialog2 is a new record with, among other controls, an image.

Regards,
Felix
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[gmurph]

Re: Upload image using a Dialog: possible?

I am trying to do a similar thing.. I am asking customers to answer questions using an image... some times there are multiple images for a single question so you have that 'one to many' relationship.. and so the record existing BEFORE you add the image to the 'many' side is tricky and I have not yet figured it... The dialog might be the answer instead of a grid... You may be able to do it with the grid but the 'standard' approach definitely does not work it will need some 'special' xbasic or Java script work ... anybody solved this? i.e. adding in image to a new record?

[christappan]

Re: Upload image using a Dialog: possible?

You can use XBasic to insert the record and then open the dialog with that record number. That way the record exists even though no customer has yet entered and saved their information. I haven't done this with images specifically, but I have done it to address the issue with the user uploading a file.

[gmurph]

Re: Upload image using a Dialog: possible?

Do you have an example of the XBasic code you could post? ... thanks...

[TheSmitchell]

Re: Upload image using a Dialog: possible?

There's no easy "file upload" action for a dialog you can use (as far as I know), but you could write the file upload yourself to get around that. You'll need to pass information like the file name etc back to the dialog after the upload, probably with session variables. I'm attempting to accomplish something similar with a project I'm working on. It's not done yet, but I'll share my results later if there is interest.

This may also be of interest: http://wiki.alphasoftware.com/ASWUPLOADIMG.A5W

[iRadiate]

Re: Upload image using a Dialog: possible?

I asked Alpha about file/image uploads from a Dialog. The response was that it is on their list.

Stephen

[Larsman]

Re: Upload image using a Dialog: possible?

We are uploading a file in a dialog2. Well we are actually using an embedded html file (.a5w) to create the form for actually specifying the file to upload in the dialog. This uploads the file to the session folder then we are using the After Dialog Validate to transfer the file to the database (currently a .dbf table) and to a storage directory and a html link to the file (in the directory) in a separate filed. Note: we are adding changing the name of the uploaded file to and location and a date/time stamp to the file. Plus we are taking out file name characters that we found to prevent files from being uploaded and stored properly.

the code to for the After Dialog Validate is:

dim NewFileName as c = strtran(strtran(chrtran(file.filename_parse(session.UploadedFileName, "N") + "Manager_" + e.datasubmitted.st_name + "_" + cdate(date()) + substr(strtran(""+now(),":", "" ), 12, 6) + file.filename_parse(session.UploadedFileName, "E"), ", &'()#", "-______"), "___", "_"), "__", "_")
dim LinkFileName as c = file.filename_parse(session.UploadedFileName, "NE")
session.filenam = LinkFileName
dim FileStorePath as c = "c:\A5Webroot\application\photos" + chr(92)
dim LinkFilePath as c = "https://secure.website.com/application/photos/" + NewFileName
if session.UploadedFileName <>""
	if file.dir_create_recurse(FileStorePath) then
		e.dataSubmitted.MGR_PIC = FileStorePath + NewFileName
		e.dataSubmitted.photolinkpath = LinkFilePath
		file.copy(session.UploadedFileName, FileStorePath + NewFileName)
	end if

Hope this helps.

[madtowng]

Re: Upload image using a Dialog: possible?

I haven't tried this yet, but I think this might work.

Put an embedded grid in a container that hides the grid until the continue(submit) button is pressed.
The continue button should save the data entered .

I've been doing lots of hiding and unhiding, and I think this will do what you want.

Gregg