Hi guys.

I've added custom fields to SiteManager>System Tables > Ecommerce - SKU. They come up in the Products area in the CMS desk - perfect. Some of the fields are file fields (upload a file).

From the CMS Desk, the files are uploaded properly and can be viewed from the Edit Product page by CMS administrators.

However, I've noticed that the files seem to be treated differently to files uploaded in other parts of the site. For example, they don't conform to the site-wide "store in database" file setting which is switched on - they are stored in the BizFormFiles location in the file system. Furthermore, I can't access these files via GetFileUrl or GetMetaFuleUrl etc, but need to write custom code based on CMSModules\Bizforms\CMSPages\GetBizFormFile.aspx.

Unfortunately this has created inconsistency in my project (most files in DB except for these) as well as requiring me to write custom code to provide access to the files for the user.

I'm aware I can just as easily produce a custom document type for products which would handle files the way I'd like, but separating product data between documents and products in this case is not architecturally desirable.

Questions:
- why are these files treated differently from the others?
- will this be changed in future versions to bring it in line with file handling in the rest of the site?
- do you have any suggestions / recommendations that can make this work better for me?

Perhaps I've missed something obvious that I can do to have the files stored in the database and still be easily accessible to anonymous users/authenticated site members.

Thanks very much :-)

Carly