This is my first go-round with Contour and I really like it! I am stuck on one thing and hoping someone out there has some insight.
I have a simple 4 field form, nothing required, no rules...one of the fields is a file upload field. It renders and works correctly on the form, but when I recieve the email with the form values, it does not include a link to the file, or a file attachment. The attachment is also not shown in the "Entries" tab. I tried installing Contrib which seems to have more support for attachments, but I still did not get any mention of the uploaded file in my email.
I am wondering if there is anything I have to do in the config, or similar to allow sending attachments.
I am running Umbraco v6.0.6 and Contour 3.0.14, Contrib is currently uninstalled. I am adding the Razor Macro the page, not the UserControl.
Thanks
Going to answer my own question here in case someone else runs up against this.
Out of desperation I decided to just start trying anything I could think of, so I tried adding the Contour form to my page as a UserControl (despite what I had read) instead of as a Macro, when I did that, I started receiving the attachment link text in my email so I re-installed Contrib and boom, attachments are on the email now.
SO, in summary, you need Contour (obviously), need the Contour Contrib package, and you need to add the macro as a user control and not as razor in order to send attachments
Related
I have problems adding a new URL when I manage knowledge base in QnAMaker.
I've tried adding this Url but I get the error:
Failed to extract QnAs from the source "URL" - Unsupported / Invalid url(s). Failed to extract Q&A from the source.
I've tested deleting the footer, publishing the page and in this case the URL works properly.
Also, I tested other very similar URLs, like this one and this has been parsed successfully.
What could be the problem?
It would appear that something with the way the questions are encoded on that page is preventing QnAMaker's services from reading the text of the question/answer pairs. In order to get those questions, I was able to copy paste the whole list:
I put them all into a word doc (or equivalent program), and then saved it as a PDF:
Then uploaded this to QnA Maker, where it was able to read the question/answer pairs just fine.
The reason I used a PDF as opposed to a .txt file is so the alternate characters (the Spanish ? for example) would render as well as the bullets from the final question that caused so much grief for the initial renderer.
After left feedback in azure site, QnA Maker Team fixed it. Now, the url is parsed properly.
Is There A Browser-Add-on That Can Create A Temporary Txt File From My Clipboard And Populate The File Submit Dialog?
Guide for firefox:
Get the data from your clipboard with this: paste data from clipboard using document.execCommand("paste"); within firefox extension
Now you can either create a temporary file with something like OS.File: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/JavaScript_OS.File/OS.File_for_the_main_thread
Or create a object with something like window.createObjectUrl.
Then assuming the file submit dialog is prompted by a html5 uploader, then you should just set value of that html5 dialog box there are other ways though too, like mozSetDataAt, mozSetFileArray etc, search github for these keywords shows excellent examples:
https://github.com/search?l=javascript&q=mozSetDataAt&type=Code&utf8=%E2%9C%93
https://github.com/search?l=javascript&q=mozSetFileArray&ref=searchresults&type=Code&utf8=%E2%9C%93
You might need to use the mimeType of application/x-moz-file not sure. Definitely experiement with it and share your solution, and ask for help along the way. This is fun stuff.
There are probably other smarter ways to attach into a input type=file, i was trying to do it the other week. I would also be interested if someone else could share some solutions to actually trick the file input element to think the native file dialog was actually used, maybe using XPCOM.
I am writing a Program in Rub On Rails 4.x and I have to take PDF files with defined fields that can be filled out, fill in data from a form submission(This part is DONE!), and lastly allow the user to modify the saved PDF file on the server and overwrite said PDF after making their modifications.
Like I said I have already gotten the PDF files filled out with what has been submitted in the form through pdftk . What I now need to do is provide a server side editing capability to the said PDF files on server generated from the first step of the process.
I have seen similar posts but none wanting to do the same thing I do. If I am wrong links would be great. Thanks in advance for all your help!
After lots of digging and research here is what I have found to be the facts surrounding this issue and implementing a program to allow embedding the PDF file, editing it, and saving it back to the server. This process would be great however from what I can tell there is nothing out there that really does this for Ruby On Rails. To quote #Nick Veys
Seems like you need to find a Javascript PDF editor you can load your PDF into, allow the user to modify it, and ultimately submit it back to the server. Seems like they exist, here's one for ASP projects
You are correct but still wrong in the sense that yes there is one for ASP projects however that is Microsoft Based, yes I know that it can run on Linux environments through Mono. However to the point it would appear in this instance that a Ruby On Rails specific solution is indeed needed.
The solution that we have come up with is as follows
1. Use a PDF editing package in the linux repositories like PDFtk
2. You then render a page with the PDF embeded on one side and a form representing the live fields in the PDF to take input.
3. Once submitted you use PDFtk to write the values into a new template PDF file and overwrite what was previously stored.
This requires a few additional steps to process the data than I really care for myself. However it is the best solution that our team could come up with, without bleeding the project budget dry for just 1 piece of functionality.
I hope this helps anyone else looking to do the same thing in Ruby On Rails.
I have done something like this using my company's .NET product. It can also be done using its Java version too.
http://www.gnostice.com/nl_article.asp?id=255&t=Save_Form_Submit_Data_Back_To_Original_PDF_Document_In_NET
Hi everyone I am trying use tinymce-rails and and also have an upload form. This works really well since I can call the images anywhere. Just about everything is working great. The images upload, the tinymce styles stuff.
Now the weird thing is tinymce keeps adjusting the file paths to add "../../../" and this breaks the photos when editing the text. It would actually work fine if it would just go up one more "../" count on the edit page, the pathing does work on the show page.
Does anyone have any direction they can give me?
As I can't know the source of this, I can provide a workaround.
In your model, let's call it Post, you might need to replace stuff to the field containing the html, let's call it body:
before_save {
body.gsub!(/(\.\.\/)+/,"..\/")
}
I checked previous questions here on SO but I think I want my functionality to work a little different. I understand that .tif files are not natively supported in Internet Explorer and that an extension, such as AlternaTIFF, are available to remedy this. However, I would like the dialog to show up where the user can either save/open the file on the client side. I know that MS Windows Picture and Fax Viewer can open them, no problems.
The files are located on our servers and this will be an intranet site. Currently, I have a link to the files populate in the view but again, I'd like that option for the user to Save/Open the file.
I'm using MVC, which I'm a little unfamiliar with, and can't seem to figure this one out. Thank you.
You can do an action that returns a tiff by changing the headers so when someone clicks the link the file will get downloaded or using FileResult.
Example with FileResult (i find it easier): http://www.dotnetcurry.com/ShowArticle.aspx?ID=807
For saving them is just like uploading any file with MVC. This post can be useful http://haacked.com/archive/2010/07/16/uploading-files-with-aspnetmvc.aspx
My advice is that you convert them to .jpg or .png when uploaded using GDI+.
//You first upload the tiff to the server like the post above explains
//And then open and convert it to .JPEG
Bitmap bm = Bitmap.FromFile("mypic.tiff");
bm.Save("mypic.jpg",ImageFormat.JPEG);
And if you already have the urls of all the tiffs, you can always do a console app to convert all of them. Even if you need to use tiffs its a good idea to have .jpg versions to show on the web. You can even resize them to create previews and save some bandwith too! :-)