Add any comments or questions regarding the Working with File Action in OWS tutorial from Issue 53

Hi there. I've posted a similar question in the Mushroom RAD forum. Just need to know how to develop a News list including images/vids using OWS. Cheers for any advice.

RAD or OWS?

From the tutorials I've seen on OWS and Mushroom RAD, the RAD seems more usable. Cheers.


Question on a slightly different matter: I want to make a pdf file downloadable from my website. Using a a href=..... but cant seem to get the URL right. Is there something else I need to configure to enable this file to be dowloadable? If I have the pdf in my root folder for the portal what's the correct URL reference (or is that something I have to get my web hosts to define in IIS or whatever ?)

Cheers

My characterization would be that OWS has a steeper learning curve than RAD. You can do both simple and complex modules using both products.

As for the file question, you can simply link to the file using the Editor in most modules. You will get a link that uses the LinkClick function. If the file is in the Standard file system, you can refer to it by name so your link should be something like http://mysite.com/Portals/N/myfilename.pdf. (Assuming you are using Portal N)

Thanks Joe, I was forgetting to add the '/portals/n/' extension!

I'm definitely getting slower (brain!) and still can't get my head around how to create vb.net code and respond to events. Probably because I've only used Visual Studio 2008 up to this point. Are there any example sites I can look at the source code and work it out? I suppose my main (stupid) confusion is the fact that .aspx files are what I've worked on so far. The events can be 'trapped' from the code behind. But for a .ascx file can I do the same thing? If for example I put some vb.net code in a .ascx file to respond to eg. a PageLoad event, and I put some more code in another .ascx file (on the same page), which one runs first? Or am I talking out of my earhole as usual. Cheers