I can not access the URL to a file attribute?  I need to attach this to a hyperlink but it is blank.  Please give me an example.

Hi cblaze22,
Can you please give further information about your issue:
I'm unclear on what you mean by "URL to a file attribute".
Usually, URLs point to physical resources such as files themselves.
Do you mean file permission attributes?
Do you mean attributes as in html/xml element attributes?
Do you have a public url to a page where this problem exists?

Thanks,
random

There are ItemAttributes, Images, and Files tied to an Item (Product/Sku).  I can not access anything dealing with a URL to a file. I can access the image url and ItemAttributes fine.  When I choose a Class Attribute in the Commerce Manager with a type of file, and upload a file with a product, I want to access this on the public store and have a hyperlink point to it, but my value is always blank, but there is a file name, content type, but no url.

If you still do not undertand here is some code.

           string s = new Item().ItemAttributes.File[0].Value;

The value is always blank.

Does anyone look at these forums?

I need a solution to this?

Hi,

Have you taken a look at this following post?

http://www.mediachase.com/Community/forums/thread/5976.aspx

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So the file attribute shouldnt be used to get the url you upload?  An an extra field needs to be created for just the url?

http://www.mediachase.com/Community/forums/thread/3538.aspx

Please read that.  Has this not been fixed?

There is no URL for a file. Basically the object you get is ItemFile with a following attributes (if this is a meta attribute and returned by ItemAttributes collection):

file.ContentType - describes content type of the file, like image/file and so on

file.FileContents - this is an actual binary content

file.FileName - name of the file.

These properties are set by ServicePipeHelper class and if you want, you can modify and add an URL. Otherwise, you you really want a URL, you will need to first save the FileContents property to a file and then redirect user to that URL.

Hope this helps.

PS: the issue mentioned above was resolved and is related to the Web Services in version 4.0.x.

 

Thanks.  Why couldnt you just do files like images and be able to reference them?  Ill try to do my best to resolve this thanks.

I hope this gives you enough technical guidance. Let us know if you need more assistance from us.

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