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chris.percival-oakwood-dc - 5/6/2010 8:59:39 AM

Displaying file information such as size etc

I have the following code displaying a list of files at the path "/Files/%". I have a custom transformation 'CMS.File.FileInfo', in which I want to display things like filetype icon, file size, modified date etc. I can create a link to it easily with <%# GetDocumentLink() %>, but anything more is beyond me.


    <cms:CMSDocumentsDataSource EnableViewState="false" Path="/Files/%" ID="documentsDataSource"
        ClassNames="CMS.File" runat="server" /> 

    <cms:CMSDataList ID="ucDatalist" runat="server"
        TransformationName="CMS.File.FileInfo"
        ZeroRowsText="No data found" EnableViewState="false" />

As this seems to be quite difficult, am I going about this the wrong way? Is there some combination of controls etc that could do this for me?


Member	chris.percival-oakwood-dc - 5/7/2010 3:00:59 AM RE:Displaying file information such as size etc Got the file icon sorted using this undocumented feature: <%# GetFileIconUrl("FileAttachment") %>

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kentico_mirekr - 5/7/2010 3:49:24 AM

RE:Displaying file information such as size etc

Hi,

Yes, sure. You need to create custom transformation function for this purpose. Following KB articles will help you:

http://devnet.kentico.com/Knowledge-Base/API-and-Internals/How-to-display-file-size-%28attachment-size%29-on-a-pa.aspx
http://devnet.kentico.com/Knowledge-Base/API-and-Internals/How-to-get-data-of-document-attachment-using-API.aspx

Attachments are stored in CMS_Attachment table in database, you can then use any field from this table in your custom transformation function when using AttachmentInfo object.

Best regards,
Miroslav Remias.


Member	chris.percival-oakwood-dc - 5/7/2010 4:06:19 AM RE:Displaying file information such as size etc Ah that's brilliant, thank you!!

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