Why not use an upload control? Have I missed something important?

cheers,
doug.

That is to day, a property on your membertype of type 'upload'.

They could upload anything (pdf, swf, etc.) so you'd want to do some checking that it is really an image before you try to display it.

cheers,
doug.

Hi Doug,

You haven't missed anything ;-) I think I have.

Just to spell it out... if I add an upload control to the member type, and use the umbraco editor controls to render the members "edit profile" page, then I need to save the image somewhere, and I guess that is in the media section. When I use the Edit Member page in the umbraco backend, it just uploads the image to the media section, but it isn't displayed anywhere.

Where is the value saved? And is there example code to handle that upload? I have just created a user control that looks at the member type and displays the controls on there. I have yet to handle all specific controls... upload being one of them.

Thanks,
RasB

Hi Doug,

When I try to upload an image using the uploadField, it just goes wrong. I get this exception:

Invalid attempt to read when no data is present.

Stack Trace: 

[InvalidOperationException: Invalid attempt to read when no data is present.]
   System.Data.SqlClient.SqlDataReader.ReadColumn(Int32 i, Boolean setTimeout) +778859
   System.Data.SqlClient.SqlDataReader.GetGuid(Int32 i) +29
   umbraco.DataLayer.RecordsReaderAdapter`1.GetGuid(String fieldName) in d:\TeamCity\buildAgent\work\7380c184e9fcd3ea\umbraco\datalayer\RecordsReaderAdapter.cs:263
   umbraco.cms.businesslogic.datatype.DefaultData.get_Version() +135
   umbraco.editorControls.uploadField.Save() +214
   TestSite.MemberProfile.SaveControlValue(Control c, Member m, String prop) in C:\Development\Test\TestSite\MemberProfile.ascx.cs:298
   TestSite.MemberProfile.saveBtn_Click(Object sender, EventArgs e) in C:\Development\ Test\TestSite\MemberProfile.ascx.cs:238
   System.Web.UI.WebControls.Button.OnClick(EventArgs e) +111
   System.Web.UI.WebControls.Button.RaisePostBackEvent(String eventArgument) +110
   System.Web.UI.WebControls.Button.System.Web.UI.IPostBackEventHandler.RaisePostBackEvent(String eventArgument) +10
   System.Web.UI.Page.RaisePostBackEvent(IPostBackEventHandler sourceControl, String eventArgument) +13
   System.Web.UI.Page.RaisePostBackEvent(NameValueCollection postData) +36
   System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequestMain(Boolean includeStagesBeforeAsyncPoint, Boolean includeStagesAfterAsyncPoint) +1565

The code I use to upload is pretty simple, and something I got from looking at the Umbraco source code on Codeplex. I am not sure it is correct though:

uploadField uf = ((uploadField)ctrl);
if (uf.PostedFile.ContentLength > 0)
  uf.Save();

I think this goes wrong when it tries to delete the existing file. But I am not sure.

Thanks,
RasB

Ok... cleaning up some other code seems to have made this work. It works now in any case, without me touching the code ;-)

So where does this end up? I cannot browse the image in the media section.

/RasB

The upload datatype stores files in /media folder on disk, but doesn't create a media item, so you can't see it there. You could however easily create the media object yourself programmatically, but it wouldn't be linked to the member. If you want your member's images tored in the media section, I'd create a media item programmatically, and link that to the member instead.

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