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A. The most likely cause is that the siteVARrootDir variable is not set correctly. Did you make sure to assign a filesystem path to this variable? If so, did you make sure to use the correct directory name delimiters for your environment? The comments in your configuration file indicate the correct slashes to use. If you did all of the above correctly, then you need to make sure that you did not introduce a typo in the pathname and that the filesystem and Web server permissions are set up correctly. For more information, see the Documentation.

A. You can use the following script to determine the filesystem path. Open a text editor, and copy the following one-line ASP script to this file:
    <%=Server.MapPath("findpath.asp")%>
Save the file with the name findpath.asp and place it in the directory on your Web hosting account where Web File Browser is located. When you load this file in the browser, the browser will indicate the filesystem path to this file.

A. If you are using the frame-based layout, open the frameset.html page in a text editor, and change the value of the <title> tag. If you are using the frameless layout, open the treeOfFiles.php or webfilebrowser.asp page (the page you open depends on whether you purchased the PHP or the ASP version) in a text editor, and change the value of the <title> tag.

A. Make sure that the icon is 24 pixels x 22 pixels. And for best results, try to place the actual image towards the left-hand side of the available space. Open treeOfFiles.php in a text editor. Locate the following line:
    ShowfileList($siteVARrootDir, "", "", "foldersTree", $isFrameless);
Immediately below it, insert the following line:
    echo "foldersTree.iconSrc = \"newroot.gif\"\n";
Where newroot.gif is the name of the icon file you want to use.

A. Here you go:
         
Make sure to place them in the same directory as the other icons. Also, make sure to add the file extensions for these files to the siteVARshowXtensions variable in the ASP or PHP configuration file that you received with Web File Browser.
Special thanks to Alice Erickson for the MS Access icon.

A. This is happening because the URL calling treeOfFiles.php does not have an argument called frame. This is not an error; it is a notice message from PHP. However, this notice is preventing the script from completing. A setting in your Web server’s php.ini file determines how notices are treated. At present, they are preventing scripts from completing. If you don’t have access to this file, you can still configure the server to ignore the notice for this particular script and have the tree render correctly. Search for the following line in your treeOfFiles.php file:
    frame = $_GET['frame'];
and include the following line immediately above it:
    error_reporting(E_ALL ^E_NOTICE);

A. There are security concerns about letting a Web page control behavior on an end users machine. The Web is designed so that the things a Web page can do are very limited. For the most part, with regards links to documents, a Web page can only make a call to the browser to display the document (and then the browser makes a call to the operating system). Normally, a Web page cannot tell a browser how or where to open that document. Because if it could, then malicuous people could do very bad things.

So how a non-Web format document opens up depends on 1) the end users browser and 2) the end users operating system. You will find that the behavior you are seeing is not even consistent against all instances of IE (because someone may have configured their browser's security settings to behave differently).

Now, I did say for the most part. I said this because it is possible to write a script that has a Web page do certain things with regards opening documents. But this will only work on specific operating systems like Windows. That is, it is not cross-browser or cross-platform.

Unfortunately, consistent behavior across platforms and browsers is impossible when it comes to dealing with other applications on an end user's machine. That's the nature of working on the Web.

A. The tree control on the left-hand side (TreeView) has a configuration variable called PERSERVESTATE (unfortunate mispelling) or PRESERVESTATE. Both spellings of this variable are supported. This configuration variable tells the TreeView to remember its state the next time you load the page. So, in other words, when you go back to the WebFileBrowser page, the TreeView will open the folders that you had open last time. What it basically does is store the IDs of the open folder nodes in a cookie and retrieve the information the next time you load the page. However, if the tree structure changes in the mean time, the folder IDs will change. And then the TreeView will attempt to open an inappropriate folder ID.

This could happen when your folders are changing frequently, which sometimes happens in the development phase of a project. If this happens and you expect your folders to be stable after deployment of your page, then you need not worry about this issue. However, if you expect visible folders to be removed after deployment, then you might want to disable the "preserve state" feature. To do this, open your ASP or PHP file in a text editor (depending on which version you have) and change the value of the PERSERVESTATE (or PRESERVESTATE) variable to 0 (zero):
    PERSERVESTATE = 0

A. Open treeOfFiles.php in a text editor. Locate the following code:
    while (list ($key, $val) = each ($subDirs)) {
      echo "$jsParent$childApp = insFld($jsParent, gFld(\"$val\", 'javascript:undefined'))\n";
      ShowFileList($root, "$path/$val", $lstType, "$jsParent$childApp", $isFrameless);
    }
Change the above code to read:
    while (list ($key, $val) = each ($subDirs)) {
      if ($val != ".thumbnails") {
        echo "$jsParent$childApp = insFld($jsParent, gFld(\"$val\", 'javascript:undefined'))\n";
        ShowFileList($root, "$path/$val", $lstType, "$jsParent$childApp", $isFrameless);
      }
    }

A. Open aspwebfilebrowser.asp in a text editor and locate the following line:

gLnkStr = "gLnk('" & target & "', """ & oFileItem.Name & """, """ & urlStr & "/" & server.URLPathEncode(oFileItem.Name) &""")"

Change it to read:

gLnkStr = "gLnk('" & target & "', """ & Left(oFileItem.Name, InStrRev(oFileItem.Name, ".") - 1) & """, """ & urlStr & "/" & server.URLPathEncode(oFileItem.Name) &""")"

A. We ship Web File Browser with the free (unregistered) version of TreeView. The embedded version of TreeView is fully functional. The only difference between the free version and the registered version is the presence of this link. If you really want to remove this link, you need to purchase the registered version of TreeView from the TreeView Web site.

A. Many customers buy TreeView first and then Web File Browser. If the price for Web File Browser included a registered version of TreeView, then these customers would be paying twice for TreeView. Also, some Web File Browser customers actually want to use the unregistered version of TreeView. So, to accommodate as many customers as possible, we ship Web File Browser with the free (unregistered) version of TreeView.

A. Sure. Please contact us and we will try to figure out terms that suit both parties.