Hi Marcus, AFAIK, what you want cannot be done. The "upload file" functionality is build upon the standard HTML <input type="file"> tag. Nothing can be done by the JSF framework that the <input type="file"> tag does not support. And this html tag does not provide any option to set the starting directory.
As I'm sure you can understand, browsers must not allow html pages to read stuff from the local disk unless the user explicitly agrees. Anything else would be a huge security hole. So the only way for a page to get files sent from the browser back to the server is via this one <input type="file"> tag (unless you start using signed applets or activeX or similar). As you can see here http://w3schools.com/tags/att_input_type.asp the <input type="file"> tag does support an "accept" attribute that will filter what types of files will be displayed, but provides no way for the html page to suggest a starting directory. There are no other options for this html tag. As Ali noted, the "dir" attribute on the t:inputFileUpload tag is nothing to do with directory names; "dir" is short for "language direction", ie supports languages like Arabic that are written right-to-left as well as languages like English (left-to-right). Regards, Simon m4rkuz schrieb: > Sorry If I did not make myself clear, > > Let me explain further, I have a t:inputFileUpload that is represented > as a input text and a button, when you click the button a dialog > apears asking to select a file, what I want to do is to make this > dialog opens a default dinamic folder on the disk, like when you an > user click it it would open a dialog showing the default path for that > user.. > > Any ideas? > > > > Marcus V. Sánchez D. > ______________________ > Enterprise Developer. > Sun Certified Java Programmer (SCJP) > > PD: English is not my native language, help me a little ;) > > > On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 4:48 AM, Ali Ok <al...@aliok.info > <mailto:al...@aliok.info>> wrote: > > Hi Marcus, > > What do you mean "setting a default value in the dir attribute"? > Are you modifying tld file? > Do you mean you want to change text direction to RTL? > > Regards, > Ali Ok > > 2008/12/16 m4rkuz <m4r...@gmail.com <mailto:m4r...@gmail.com>> > > > Hi everyone, I'm suscessfully using the t:inputFileUpload tag, > but now I have a problem setting a default value in the dir > attribute of the Tag... > > any Ideas? > > > Best Regards, > > > Marcus V. Sánchez D. > ______________________ > Enterprise Developer. > > > -- -- Emails in "mixed" posting style will be ignored -- (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style)
