Hi,
I'm building a system where a presenter uploads a PPT to my server and
then I show it to all the participants. The problem is that most of the
media in the PPT is usually linked, so I'll need to upload all that
too. Assuming I can parse the PPT and figure the exact name and
location of each of the media files I need from his hard-disk, is there
any way I can upload all these files automatically, without having to
make the user choose each of these files manually? If that's not
possible, can I atleast show the user a page with a list of input boxes
of type file, pre-populated with the file-path and name of the media
files I need, so that the user can just click 'Submit' without having
to browse and select each of them?
Please say yes. It would be a major usability crisis if my users had to
keep hitting the browse button so many times for each PPT! Especially
when I know exactly what files I need and where they are! I know that
this has a lot to do with browser security, but there's got to be SOME
way out?
Thanks,
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Not using HTML alone. You'll have to use something such as an ActiveX, Java,
or .NET control client side (or to alter security settings). Knowing a bit
more could help (ie.is this in house workstations or are they general public
?)
Or perhaps could they zip a folder and upload the zip file ?
--
Patrice
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Hi,
I'm building a system where a presenter uploads a PPT to my server and
then I show it to all the participants. The problem is that most of the
media in the PPT is usually linked, so I'll need to upload all that
too. Assuming I can parse the PPT and figure the exact name and
location of each of the media files I need from his hard-disk, is there
any way I can upload all these files automatically, without having to
make the user choose each of these files manually? If that's not
possible, can I atleast show the user a page with a list of input boxes
of type file, pre-populated with the file-path and name of the media
files I need, so that the user can just click 'Submit' without having
to browse and select each of them?
Please say yes. It would be a major usability crisis if my users had to
keep hitting the browse button so many times for each PPT! Especially
when I know exactly what files I need and where they are! I know that
this has a lot to do with browser security, but there's got to be SOME
way out?
Thanks,
Thanks Patrice, I guess I'll go for signed Java applets. This is for an
external client, and I'm sure they wont be too happy with having to zip
their presentations up :).
I was just hoping there would be simple way of doing it using HTML.
Opera honors the 'value' for Input type file (albeit with a warning
message to the user for unedited submits), so I was hoping there was
some means of achieving the same result in IE or FireFox.
Patrice wrote:
Not using HTML alone. You'll have to use something such as an ActiveX, Java,
or .NET control client side (or to alter security settings). Knowing a bit
more could help (ie.is this in house workstations or are they general public
?)
Or perhaps could they zip a folder and upload the zip file ?
--
Patrice
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