Hi Owen,

missed your post completely. Have a lot of meetings today, but will answer this evening.

Thomas

Hi Owen,

sorry for the long long delay, I forgot you completely...

You get as output the virtual path of the selected folder. e.g. if you have selected the folder images under your root folder you get as output "/images". Therefore that it is stored as the value of the generic property in the node you can use this in an xslt via

<xsl:value-of select="$currentPage/data [@alias='ALIAS_OF_YOUR_PROPERTY']" />

To list all files under a certain node you have to do some .net coding because there is no build in method to list all files of a folder, but this can easy be done with an xslt extension like this (not tested):

public static XPathNodeIterator GetFilesFromFolder(string virtualFolder)
{
    var server = System.Web.HttpContext.Current.Server;
    var folder = server.MapPath(virtualFolder);
    var doc = new XDocument();
    var root = new XElement("Files");
    doc.Add(root);
    XPathNavigator nav = doc.CreateNavigator();

    if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(folder))
        return nav.Select("/Files");
    
    foreach (var filePath in Directory.GetFiles(folder))
    {
        var entry = new XElement("File");
        root.Add(entry);

        entry.Add(new XElement("FileName", new XText(Path.GetFileName(filePath))));
        entry.Add(new XElement("Extension", new XText(Path.GetExtension(filePath))));
        entry.Add(new XElement("FilePath", new XText(filePath)));
        entry.Add(new XElement("VirtualFilePath", new XText(server.MapPath(filePath))));
    }

    return nav.Select("/Files");
}

So you can use this (after installing this extension) via

<xsl:for-each select="YOUR_EXTENSION_ALIAS:GetFilesFromFolder($currentPage/data [@alias='ALIAS_OF_YOUR_PROPERTY'])/Files/File">
  <xsl:value-of select="FileName" />
  <xsl:value-of select="Extension" />
  <xsl:value-of select="FilePath" />
  <xsl:value-of select="VirtualFilePath" />
</xsl:for-each>

hth, Thomas

HI Thomas Hohler,

I have already followed your installation: Installation: Just upload the dll to the bin folder, add a new datatype in the developer/datatypes section and choose TH.FolderPicker as RenderControl. Now you can select the base path from which the datatype will pick the folders. In the content section then the tree will be shown from the base path.

But I can't see TH.Folder Picker in developer/datatypes. How do?

thanks and best regards akl

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