Re: Listing Files and Directories

[Ian Skinner <iskinner@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Vidikron wrote:
> On our internal web page we have some links to various areas like Office Forms, 
> Safety, etc... The supervisors that maintain these documents have access to 
> shares that allow them add, remove, and update the files as needed.  Since the 
> content in each changes fairly often we're currently using CFDIRECTORY with the 
> LIST action to display the contents to the users on the web page.
>
>  Some of the areas now contain quite a few documents and the supervisors would 
> like to be able to group their documents in subdirectories.  I know I can I can 
> use RECURSE="yes" to have the web page list the contents of these folders, but 
> the supervisors would like the end users to see the subdirectories as well so 
> things are less confusing and cluttered on both ends.  
>
>  So is there any way in CF to set up these pages so that subdirectories can can 
> be navigated and the documents selected?  If possible, I'd like something that 
> can handle this dynamically so that I don't have to constantly change the code 
> every time a supervisor decides to add/remove a directory. 
>
>  We're currently running CF8 Standard. 
>
>  Thanks!

Pretty much what you got should do it.  The simplest change would be to 
output entire directory structure on your current page, just nesting the 
files and directories.

I would just create a looping output that uses the fields of the record 
set to output the directories and the files with-in them probably as a 
nested set of <ul> unordered lists.

If you want to break up this user interface into distinct units which 
only list the contents of a current directory then just do the output as 
you have it without using recursion.  But make the sub-directory 
listings links that when clicked repopulate the current page listing the 
contents of the selected directory.

Neither should take a great deal of rework to your current interface.