• December 19

    Sitefinity File Manager Part 2: Permissions

    Posted Under: Web Development Tags: C# Sitefinity

    After reading part 1 of this SiteFinity File Manager series, you should now have the file manager in Sitefinity's RadEditor dialog set to load in a default folder. The only thing left is to restrict access to other folders. Additionally, we need to set the default upload folder for incoming files.

    FileManager Permissions

    By default, the RadEditor provides full access to the entire file system for your website. This means that users can navigate outside of their folder and wreak havoc on your site. So although we have already set the editor to open in their folder by default, ...

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  • December 17

    Sitefinity: File Manager Default Folder

    Posted Under: Web Development Tags: C# Sitefinity

    One of the toughest roadblocks I've had to deal with while training and supporting users of sitefinity is the issue of uploading files and images through the editor. The default behavior is to start the user in the root of the site, allowing them access to all files and folders, possibly even granting them the ability to delete the whole site! Having trustworthy users is certainly a plausible workaround, but unfortunately not a guaranteed one. And besides that, having to navigate into images -> department -> subfolder1 -> subsubfolder2 -> newimages gets old quickly, especially if you have more than ...

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