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icon1.gif   Pre-populate Attachments in URL, posted by Erik Iverson on Thu Aug 6 22:29:12 2009 
    icon2.gif   Re: Pre-populate Attachments in URL, posted by Stefan Ritt on Fri Aug 7 08:36:19 2009 
Message ID: 66501     Entry time: Fri Aug 7 08:36:19 2009     In reply to: 66500
Icon: Reply  Author: Stefan Ritt  Author Email: stefan.ritt@psi.ch 
Category: Question  OS: All  ELOG Version: 2.7.3 
Subject: Re: Pre-populate Attachments in URL 

Erik Iverson wrote:
Is there a way to pre-populate the new entry window with one or more attachments? Per the documentation, this is easy to do with attributes, i.e., http://localhost:8070/demo/?cmd=New&pauthor=joe&ptype=Info as a URL or bookmark will do it. I'd like to do the same thing with attachments, for example http://localhost:8070/demo/?cmd=New&pauthor=joe&ptype=Photograph&attfile1=picture1.jpg&attfile2=picture2.jpg might prepopulate two attachments, giving me an edit window all ready to enter the brief description represented by the two pictures.


That would be nice, I want this, too! But unfortunately your browser does not allow this for security reasons, and I found no way around. Assume you look to a page on the internet, and it pre-populates a file selector with something like /etc/passwd or any other sensitive file. Then this box gets hidden by some CSS style so you don't see it. So as soon as you click on something on that page, your sensitive files gets submitted, and you don't want that. Therefore it's impossible to pre-populate file selector boxes.

- Stefan
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