OK,

I've had a full morning of spelunking though undocumented DNN features and I finally some of the issues with the editor figured out.

First, the problems noted in other posts about links getting corrupted and causing errors or "permission" problems have nothing to do with the (excellent) editor Locopon's created for us.  I also found these problems cropping up in the core links module.  Turns out that these problems are part of the current DNN FileManager code and effect the links to files created in the editor and other modules.  The editor calls all the correct DNN core functions for the filemanager and expects those functions to work properly (unfortunatly they do not).

Here's are the problems and the solutions:

1) If there are spaces in the filename you are trying to download, then the LinkClick process bombs with a "Input string was not in a correct format" error.  Removing the spaces from the filename fixes these errors.

2) The filemanager now supports directory level access permissions by role.  Even if you have never used the FileManager to move files to the site (like this old time DNN user), the LinkClick application will still check for them.  By default, only admins have access to the files (and that does not seem to work right either).  To fix this problem, you have to go to the file manager and explicity give "view folder" access to all roles ("All Users" in my case) that need to access the files (note: these permissions are not enherited).

That should fix the issues that have plagued me for the last week or so, hope it works for some of you as well.

I'm going to cross post this over to the general area as well so that others can find it as well.

Locopon - Keep up the great work!

GregC

Please post this at gemini to have it solved by the core team.

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Hi lneville,

Try using the standard DNN Links module to create a link to the file.  Then check and see if that module also throws then "Input..." error.  That's how I started tracking this problem down.  If you don't the error , then your DNN may be having a different error.

Also, try synchronizing the file manager (go to file manager, check the box on the upper right side of the control and hit the Synchroize link.   This should make sure the file manager's view of the world is the same as what's on the disk.

 

GregC