Thanks Jake. I will try that now. Since the best option is to leave the core alone, is there any disadvantage to the first option you provided? Aside from the fact that it will only pertain to individual sites, it seems to make sense to simply go that route.
On Feb 1, 3:12 pm, Jake Churchill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2 things that I know of that you can do: > > 1) You can go to Admin -> Config -> General and change FILENAMECONFLICT > to Overwrite or one of the other valid attributes for cffile. > 2) You can edit the core files directly (not recommended but I've done > it before for this same purpose. The file is > farcry_core/packages/types/_dmFile/edit.cfm. The upload action is > around line 70 and the delete is around line 93. You will notice that > the nameconflict attribute of the cffile upload is using the config > setting as indicated in #1. You can change that and make it Overwrite. > If you do this, make sure you remove the delete because if you overwrite > the file, the delete will just turn around and delete it since it's > looking in a structure for the name. The other thing you can do is swap > the order of cffile operations. You have to pretty much take all the > code around it though. You would be putting the delete above the upload > but I think you'll have to fool around with some variables to make it > work correctly. > > Good Luck! > > -Jake > > > > Jeff wrote: > > We need to be able to routinely update PDF files that are associated > > with their dmFile records; the PDF file names need to remain the same. > > Thus, my question is ... when re-uploading an updated PDF (or other > > type) file that has the same name, is there a way to have it truly > > overwrite the pre-existing file that lives in the directory so that it > > does not append a numerical increment at the end of the filename? > > > For instance, there is a dmFile record that currently uses a PDF file > > named "HR_Specs.pdf". We need to simply update that file by uploading > > a revised "HR_Specs.pdf" file; however, when we do so, it changes the > > name of the new file to "HR_Specs1.pdf". > > -- > Jake Churchill > CF Webtools > 11204 Davenport, Ste. 200b > Omaha, NE 68154http://www.cfwebtools.com > 402-408-3733 x103 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "farcry-dev" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/farcry-dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
