Hello Duncan,

At the present moment there isn't actually a way to alter where the file goes.  WebSite X5 will upload any attached files to the root folder of your project on the server.

It would be nice to be able to have more control over where the files end up.

Hopefully this will be something which might be added in a future release.  It's been discussed before on the forum.

Kind regards,

Paul

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Thanks both

I have been laying around with this and would be grateful for further advice.

I can set the contact form system up to send the file to me by email. That works fine and is OK as long as the file size is not too big. I can set the contact form system up to send all the data to a MySQL database on the server - but then how do I download it? I cannot work out how "send to file" works.

Grateful for your thoughts chaps and chapesses.

Duncan

When using the send to database option all the information goes to the database EXCEPT the file attachment, which goes to the root folder of the WebSite X5 project on the server (or any specified public writing folder, as pointed out by Esterre).  You can download any such attachments using either the built-in FTP engine in Step 5, or a third-party FTP client such as FileZilla.

My previous answer was based on findings from another recent discussion regarding this, Duncan.

I think if you read that particular discussion it might go at least some way to answering your question.  It certainly helped me at the time.

Contact Form Object ,where the stores users information?

Thanks Paul. That other thread was very interesting.

So, sending to database works fine. I get the file (picture or whatever) in the folder on my server so I can download that using FTP. Great!

But....

All the text field data now end up in the MySQL database which is not very helpful. I can't find an easy way to download from the MySQL database on my server.

I suppose I coudl have two forms - one sending me the text field data by email and one uploading the files (pictures etc) to the folder under the root on the server. That would work but not very elegantly.

Also I cannot seem to get the "send data to a file" option to work. If I try to select the file, I just get the option of pointing to a file on my PC whereas, presumably, I should be wanting to find a file on the server.

Muddled.com!

And, as Esterre says, I have made a folder on my server under the X5 root folder and the "attachements" go in there - so that's great. That was a quesion in the other thread that you mentioned Paul.

It's is now just dealing with the ordinary data fields!!

Two forms I think

Thanks Paul