Is it Possible to create folders and sub folders inside project?

[DOntquIT]

Is It possible to have folders like attached pic with alpha five application?

[Toby Locke]

Re: Is it Possible to create folders and sub folders inside project?

Hi Hope this may be of help
'********************************
dim test as c
dim newfile as c
newfile = ("[PathAlias.ADB_Path]\images\\")+ loginid 'Create a directory using the login ID
test = a5_is_path_valid(newfile)
IF test = "F"
file.dir_create(newfile)
END IF


newfile= alltrim(newfile+"\\")+session.flag 'Create a sub-directory within the login directory - session.flag being the name
test = a5_is_path_valid(newfile)
IF test = "F"
file.dir_create(newfile)
END IF
'*******************************

Toby

[Steve Wood]

Re: Is it Possible to create folders and sub folders inside project?

I guess we should have asked this the first time you posted, but what are you trying to accomplish? Do you want an xbasic function that creates folders like Toby showed, or do you want to manually create folders in order to isolate and store Alpha's Reports, Code, Forms, Tables, etc.?

[sendamail]

Re: Is it Possible to create folders and sub folders inside project?

latter one.. dontquit is trying to maintain the project module wise as there were many modules are involved in the project.. inside the module folders again will maintain sub folders for reports, forms, etc..

not like toby said

[Steve Wood]

Re: Is it Possible to create folders and sub folders inside project?

Then the answer is probably No. Or at least, nobody has tried, probably wouldnt work, or would cause such hassle while using the program that it would not be worth any effort. This is based on how I know Alpha works at all of those intersections. For instance, there is NO report file you could isolate if you tried, it is part and parcel of the DBF or SET file for which it is attached. Alpha will expect the appropriate file to be right there next to the DBF or SET file. The database, and the web projects and the associated css or other files are where they need to be for Alpha to work properly.

[NoeticCC]

Re: Is it Possible to create folders and sub folders inside project?

Then the answer is probably No. Or at least, nobody has tried, probably wouldnt work

I tried it when I first came across dontquit's request, because we might need a similar setup with subfolders for each customer.

I suspected it might work but when you select a component to insert into a page, it seems to ignore the folder and won't save... But when you create the component and page at root level and THEN copy both to a folder, it works fine too - so I suspect it's just a case of Alpha fixing the folder references in the component picker tool... or have a component of the same name at root level for each module, this will also work as long as they are the same type.

http://www.charlesworth.biz/cTracker/Module1/index.a5w

With a bit of fiddling it's possible to use subfolders (as long as you don't mind either allowing or disallowing each module/folder by login group rather than allowing some groups access to bits of one module but not other bits in the same module).

You just have to amend the paths to css and images in the a5w page to add ../ before the path so it looks at the right directory.

[sendamail]

Re: Is it Possible to create folders and sub folders inside project?

thank you,

will have a look at it and give a try.. i tried to create components and a5w pages in the sub folders and there itself tried to insert the component into the a5w and failed..

will check the idea of creating in root folder before moving them to sub folders..

steve, we may consider this..

"its not just for reports we need sub-folders, there will be 100s or 1000s of components and pages in the project, right now we are trying to differentiate those things by having some prefix while naming those components based on the module, but it'll be more programmer friendly and easy to understand for the future programmers who will be working on the projects done by us if we can group and save them according to their modules.. its just exactly like how we keep our projects in different folders based on the customers, like how we arrange our mails in our mail box for easy access to the related mails"

[NoeticCC]

Re: Is it Possible to create folders and sub folders inside project?

thank you,

will have a look at it and give a try.. i tried to create components and a5w pages in the sub folders and there itself tried to insert the component into the a5w and failed..

will check the idea of creating in root folder before moving them to sub folders..

steve, we may consider

If you have a set structure of files and components (even if they are only ever used in the module folders) at root level, I think it might be more standardized overall, because in order for the insert to work, you HAVE to use the same component names etc.

As for reports, why not keep it safe and move them somewhere completely off the web server and dynamically pull the files into the user's session folder as needed? I'd be wary of leaving any PDF or word etc. files to sit in a5webroot, personally.

[sendamail]

Re: Is it Possible to create folders and sub folders inside project?

andrea,
the reports which we generated from the templates in pdf format, we are storing them in user's session folder and afterwards copying to a different location as a cabinet for the users to go and access it.. so far no pdfs or docs in the root folder..

[NoeticCC]

Re: Is it Possible to create folders and sub folders inside project?

andrea,
the reports which we generated from the templates in pdf format, we are storing them in user's session folder and afterwards copying to a different location as a cabinet for the users to go and access it.. so far no pdfs or docs in the root folder..

OK - I still think it might make more sense to put them in a5Data or somewhere else entirely and only call them up and copy them back to the session folder when a valid user requests a past report...

[Steve Wood]

Re: Is it Possible to create folders and sub folders inside project?

Curious, if not private information, what is the general purpose of this A5 program with thousands of components?

[sendamail]

Re: Is it Possible to create folders and sub folders inside project?

example like an ERP system.. where sales, marketing, purchasing, finance, HR etc., etc., involved..

i don't know whether we are doing it right way or not, but as of now, everything is in the root without any sub folders, the total of pages and components already crossed over few 100s.. may be 3 or 4.. soon it is going to be more and more.. :(

may be i need to go through the material & references on project setup & implementation.. took over alpha5 in the middle of some project and blindly following what the first guy started like a Good Sheep ..

if over the phone, may be can explain what is going on in a better way and get some tips from experts.. :) sometimes, having trouble in putting down the problem as it is and make the other forum users to understand what exactly we are facing..

know anyone doing support over the phone? :)

[NoeticCC]

Re: Is it Possible to create folders and sub folders inside project?

example like an ERP system.. where sales, marketing, purchasing, finance, HR etc., etc., involved..

i don't know whether we are doing it right way or not, but as of now, everything is in the root without any sub folders, the total of pages and components already crossed over few 100s.. may be 3 or 4.. soon it is going to be more

No I do think you're doing the right thing, thinking about moving modules into separate folders. It's a pain working around the existing system but you can do it, you don't NEED to have a mirror of all files in the root directory either, you could just have a "dummy_dialog","dummy_nav", "dummy_grid" and so forth component there so you can use that to insert the component code into the a5w page, then simply change "dummy_componentname" to whatever the name of the component in the subfolder is...