Browseable Document Structure

Curiosityx · 4 Sep 2008 at 01:39

Greetings, im currently in the process of building an intranet for our business, one of the features i would like to add would be a document navigation system so that users can browse company shared documents which dynamically updates when new documents are added to said folder.

Could someone let me know if this is possible on IIS using either ASP/Html, any examples would be greatly appreciated.

Regards

Conrad11 · 4 Sep 2008 at 01:48

I'm not sure if this is exactly what you are after but: look here

...wouldn't require any ASP or HTML...but is simple.

kkbigal · 4 Sep 2008 at 02:07

Curiosityx said:
Could someone let me know if this is possible on IIS using either ASP/Html, any examples would be greatly appreciated.

Yes, it is possible, although I'm not sure when you say ASP if you're referring to "Classic" ASP or ASP.NET. It's a lot easier to do this under ASP.NET as it has a file upload control by default, whereas ASP you either had to write one yourself or buy a 3rd party developed app like ASPUpload.

In principle, you can upload documents to the server and then write some code using .NET's filesystem component to read and display the files within that folder to the web page.

Depending on the size of your business, number of users etc, it might be worth considering something like Microsoft SharePoint Server, which is heavily geared towards document sharing and does many more things besides

Curiosityx · 5 Sep 2008 at 01:18

kkbigal said:
Yes, it is possible, although I'm not sure when you say ASP if you're referring to "Classic" ASP or ASP.NET. It's a lot easier to do this under ASP.NET as it has a file upload control by default, whereas ASP you either had to write one yourself or buy a 3rd party developed app like ASPUpload.

In principle, you can upload documents to the server and then write some code using .NET's filesystem component to read and display the files within that folder to the web page.

Depending on the size of your business, number of users etc, it might be worth considering something like Microsoft SharePoint Server, which is heavily geared towards document sharing and does many more things besides

Cheers for the replies guys, indeed ive been looking at Windows Sharepoint Services 3.0 and to my surprise we have 2007 Enterprise within the Action Pack also so i think ill try that first.