Help on how to add a file upload dialog on my dashlet

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amarteis

I need some help in making a link in my dashlet open up the Alfresco file upload dialog box to allow multi file selection.

Currently on clicking on the link, I get the error - "TypeError: YAHOO.util.Cookie is undefined"
when it tries to get an instance of the file upload dialog:
                this.fileUpload = Alfresco.getFileUploadInstance();

I have included the following in the header file for the dashlet :

<!– file upload dialog links –>
<@script type="text/javascript" src="${page.url.context}/res/components/upload/file-upload.js"></@script>
<@script type="text/javascript" src="${page.url.context}/res/components/upload/html-upload.js"></@script>
<@script type="text/javascript" src="${page.url.context}/res/components/upload/flash-upload.js"></@script>
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Also the link in the dashlet calls the following method in the related javascript file

      onFileUpload: function PTL_onFileUpload(e, p_obj)
        {
            
        
            if (this.fileUpload === null)
            {
                this.fileUpload = Alfresco.getFileUploadInstance();
            }

            // Show uploader for multiple files
            var multiUploadConfig =
            {
                siteId: this.siteid,
                containerId: this.container,
                uploadDirectory: this.path,
                filter: [],
                mode: this.fileUpload.MODE_MULTI_UPLOAD,
                thumbnails: "doclib",
            };
            this.fileUpload.show(multiUploadConfig);
            
            if (YAHOO.lang.isArray(p_obj) && p_obj[1].tooltip)
            {
                var balloon = Alfresco.util.createBalloon(this.fileUpload.uploader.id + "-dialog",
                {
                    html: p_obj[1].tooltip,
                    width: "30em"
                });
                balloon.show();
            
                this.fileUpload.uploader.widgets.panel.hideEvent.subscribe(function()
                {
                    balloon.hide()
                });
            }
        },
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Any help will be well appreciated.

Regards
Sam

afaust

Hello,

in order to use any file upload, you need to include the upload components of choice in your page template markup, as otherwise there will be no initialisation of any upload component that can be used at runtime. Take a look at the documentlibrary.ftl and documentlibrary.xml template files for how to include the components. You may have to provide a special dashboard template for this (or modify the default ones).

Regards
Axel