From my experience you want: Product to-many ProductAttachments to-one Attachment
now you can put as much meta data on ProductAttachments and never touch ERAttachments. I am doing this in a very simple test app, that I can send you if you want. Ted On Sep 27, 2014, at 10:11 AM, Markus Ruggiero <mailingli...@kataputt.com> wrote: > I am converting a legacy D2W application to Modern style. In the old > application the create page for a given entity was frozen and then hand > edited. The application implements something similar to ERAttachment and in > the frozen edit page there is a plain WOFileUpload button. All the files go > into the same directory (unlike with ERAttachment, where the files are stored > in a multi-level subdirectory structure). > > I want to do as much as possible without custom components (at least no page > level components). I can easily do the Create/Edit/List page configuration > for the given entity, but I am struggling with the file upload. I don't think > I can use ERAttachment, or can I? My data model is Product <-->> Attachment > (yes, the name already maches). Attachment has just a to-one relationship to > product and a file name attribute (path is "hard coded" via properties file. > It is is certainly possible to extend the existing Attachment entity with > more fields, but how wold I handle the differing way of storing the attached > files? This is a legacy application where I cannot just simply alter the file > system layout. And there are already several 1000's of attachments. > > Thanks for any input > ---markus--- > _______________________________________________ > Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. > Webobjects-dev mailing list (Webobjects-dev@lists.apple.com) > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/webobjects-dev/tedpet5%40yahoo.com > > This email sent to tedp...@yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Webobjects-dev mailing list (Webobjects-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/webobjects-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
