I'm relatively new to DNN and finding the API quite overwhelming at the moment. I'm using the basic document module to allow a file download interface (the site is all about downloading files - pretty much every page is just a file download with a selection of files available in it). Now my problem comes that the initial setup of the site includes adding several thousand files (there are 50 clients each with their own versions of files). I obviously dont' want to go and upload these individually and while I do have the option to upload them as a zip file to make life a bit easier I'd still need to set security and so on on the files. So I was wondering if anybody can point me to the appropriate part of the API to do file uploads and settign file permissions. I reckon if needed the database structure looks simple enough to do it directly but the whole point of an API is that I shouldn't be poking around in the database. :)

Also if anybody can tell me a way of programatically adding files to the document module once the files are in the system that'd be good too. :)

Thanks very much for your help.

Chris

Ah, I had seen the synchronize. That makes sense. Is there any way to get the sync to be called programatically? I want to be able to automatically put the files there and then automatically have them sync if possible... I found DotNetNuke.Services.FileSystem.SynchronizeFileSystem but it seems to be intended to be used as part of the scheduler system which I've not looked at and sounds a bit scary. I saw advice on http://www.mitchelsellers.com/blogs/articletype/articleview/articleid/181/dotnetnuke-scheduler-explained.aspx that said don't run the sync scheduler if you have a big file system since it will take a long time... I could go digging into the file manager and try to work out what gets run when you click on the sync but was hoping somebody would just know and save me the effort. :)

P.S. Thanks for the help. And for having a good website that I'll have to browse later for other useful info. :)