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Koemets's avatar
Koemets
Contributor
3 years ago

Documents\Public location

Got a task to copy certain file from FileShare to Documents\Public because users security settings. Wanted to go with the standard System.IO.File.Copy(strSourceFile,strTargetFile) where source and ta...
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  • db_pdx's avatar
    db_pdx
    3 years ago

    The methods you need are under BRApi.Filesystem:

    • BRApi.FileSystem.GetFile
      BRApi.FileSystem.InsertOrUpdateFile
    • BRApi.FileSystem.GetFileShareFolder

    Here's a mock example that just copies a file from a user's document folder and changes the name.  You'll need to swap the sourceFile/sourceDir pieces with FileShare pieces from BRApi.FileSystem.GetFileShareFolder according to your needs.

    'Source file
Dim sourceFile As String = "SomeCSV.csv"
Dim sourceDir As String = $"Documents/Users/{StringHelper.RemoveInvalidNameCharacters(si.UserName,False,False)}"
'Target File
Dim targetFile As String = "CopiedFile.csv"
Dim targetDir As String = sourceDir
				
'Get the file
Dim sourceXFFileEx As New XFFileEx
sourceXFFileEx = BRApi.FileSystem.GetFile(si, FileSystemLocation.ApplicationDatabase, sourceDir & "/" & sourceFile,True,True)
												
'Save the file				
Dim targetFileDataInfo As New XFFileInfo(FileSystemLocation.ApplicationDatabase, targetFile, targetDir)
Dim targetFileData As New XFFile(targetFileDataInfo, String.Empty, sourceXFFileEx.XFFile.ContentFileBytes)
BRApi.FileSystem.InsertOrUpdateFile(si, targetFileData)

     

Gidon_Albert's avatar
Gidon_Albert
Contributor II
2 years ago

Set the target folder as the public folder in the Application Database/Documents path

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

with the following:

 

Dim targetDir As String = $"Documents/Public"

 

Set the target path the same way, but now it will point to the public folder instead of the user's private folder:

 

Dim targetFileDataInfo As New XFFileInfo(FileSystemLocation.ApplicationDatabase, targetFile, targetDir)