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I'm trying to figure out how to upload files (like images) via custom forms and how to store those in a custom database.  Are there any examples? Or at least point me to the api classes that I would need. I can't seem to find anything.

thanks

Hi Tracstarr-
The API you want to get the file from the request is CPluginRequest.GetFile - http://www.fogcreek.com/fogbugz/library/70/html/E96D3E72.htm
The Workflow plugin does this to get a custom category image. You can see this in Plugins/Examples/Workflow/CCategoryEditor.was, the EditCategoryData and LoadCategoryFromRequest functions.
Thanks!
Brett

thanks. I totally didn't see that in that example.

Perfect. All seems to work great.

One question though. How can we delete an attachment? I found a method through the CBug class, but it doesn't apply in my case.

Will I just have to call a query directly to delete that row?

It doesn't apply because the attachment is not attached to a Bug?

correct. the file i'm uploading is similar to uploading a custom logo to the site, but i'm applying this to my custom entities. So right now since the only way i know to get the file automatically adds it to attachments table, i have a fk from my entity table to the attachment ix. But if my entities are removed, i also want to remove the associated attachment.

If you're putting it in the Attachment table but not attaching it to a bug, then yes, I would say just delete the rows by query.

It sounds like you ended up not using CPluginPostFile? Or you stored it in Attachment anyway?

wow, some days i seem to only read what I want to read. I didn't notice the second method to get the file. I only looked in the example, which uses the Request.GetFile, which automatically uses the attachment table. Must look into the other method. Thanks. :S

wait... is this not just the same thing?

so it's way too early for me right now. Ignore my last two comments. I missed the fact that I'm actually posting it to the attachment table myself. A case of just blindly following an example.