Hi,

I have a form for news.

I have a datagrid showing all news with select buttons, when it clicked, it open a detailsView with more detail.

In the database, my NewsTable has a field named File1, that contain the ID of a file (using the File table of DNN)

In the Insert mode of my DetailsView, I added the URLCONTROL, it works fine when I'm inserting and uploading new file.

But when I'm in EDIT mode, I want the 2 DropDownList (folder and file) to have their selected value to the fileID of the database... and it not working...

I don't know in wich event to put my code, and I'm not very sure how to acces the dropDownList...

Here is my code:

ASCX:

 <EditItemTemplate>
<dnn:url id="ul_file" runat="server" width="325" ShowUrls="False" ShowUpload="True" showfiles="True"  ShowTabs="False" ShowLog="False" ShowTrack="False" Required="False"  ></dnn:url>
<%#setDropList(DataBinder.Eval(Container.DataItem, "File1"))%>
</EditItemTemplate>

VB:

Function setDropList(ByVal iFileId As Integer) As String

            If (iFileId = -1) Then
                Return ""
            Else
                Dim objFileController As New FileController
                Dim objFileInfo As DotNetNuke.Services.FileSystem.FileInfo
                objFileInfo = objFileController.GetFileById(iFileId, PortalId)

                If Not objFileInfo.Folder = "" Then
                   'DirectCast(DetailsView.FindControl("ul_file").FindControl("cboFolders"), DropDownList).SelectedValue = objFileInfo.Folder 'Got an ERROR
                End If

                DirectCast(DetailsView.FindControl("ul_file").FindControl("cboFiles"), DropDownList).SelectedValue = iFileId 'This is working

            End If
            Return ""

End Function

I created the function setDropList because I didn't know in wich event to put my code...

Somebody knows the best way to do that?

I had the same problem and couldn't find a solution anywhere online, so I went straight to the source...

It appears that, in the control's PreRender event handler, the file is only selected if the flag "_doReloadFiles" is set.  Setting the "FileFilter" property sets the flag.  Therefore, in order to get something like this to work:

this.UrlControl1.Url = "FileID=234";

I simply added another line of code:

this.UrlControl.FileFilter = this.UrlControl.FileFilter;
this.UrlControl1.Url = "FileID=234";

Of course this is just a hack to get it working, and not a vialbe long-term solution.  It was verified to work in version 04.09.01.