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Getting Familiar with the Admin File Manager

The Admin File Manager consists of the following sections which are color coded in the below diagram. Full details of the functions within each area are detailed below this image.

Folders Toolbar
Files Toolbar
Folders Window
Files Window
File Navigation Bar
Folder Information Bar
Folder Security

The Host File Manager

Folders Toolbar
The Folders Toolbar manages folders within the File Manager.

The Folders Toolbar includes the following tools:

Add Folder - Click to add a new folder as entered in to the text box to the left of this field
Delete Folder - Click to delete the selected folder
Synchronize Files - Click to synchronize files within the selected folder
Recursive - Where Synchronize Files is selected, check to synchronize files within all child folders

Files Toolbar
This toolbar manages files within the File Manager.

The File Toolbar includes the following tools:

Refresh - Refresh the list of files within the selected folder
Copy Files - click to copy the selected files to a new folder
Move Files - click to move the selected files to a new folder
Upload - click to access the file upload page
Delete Files - click to delete the selected files
Filter - Filter files in the current folder by the text enter in the text box at left

Folders Window
This window displays file folders using a hierarchical tree structure. Select a folder to view related files and perform file management tasks.

Files Window
The window lists files within the selected folder. Use the Page Navigation toolbar to access files not displayed. E.g. When the folder contains more files than appear on one page.

This section provides tools to:

Edit File - Click to edit file properties including file name, read only attributes, hidden, archiving and indexing.
Delete File - Click to delete a file
Select All - Click to select all files; or UnSelect All - Click to unselect all files.
Select File - Click to select individual files to perform tasks on the Files Toolbar.
Unzip File - Click to unzip a compressed folder of files.

File Navigation Bar
This bar provides navigation and file display tools. It displays the Page [Page Number] of [Number of Pages]: enables the user to scroll through files when there are more items than displayed on one page. E.g. Page 1 of 5.

Folder Information Bar
This information bar is located below the Folders Window and provides details related to the File Manager.

The following information is displayed:

Folder Address
Used and Available Space
Items Per Page: Select the number of Items (files) displayed in the Files Window. The default setting is ten (10) and this setting defaults back to ten (10) when the page is refreshed. Other options are: 15, 20, 30, 40, and 50.

Folder Security Settings

This section enables Administrators to control security role access to each folder. View Folder and Write to Folder (e.g. upload images) settings are available.

View Folder: This enables users within the permitted roles to view the files within this folder. If View Folder permissions are not provided users cannot view these files. E.g. If an image is displayed in the Media module only users who belong to role permitted to View Folder will be able to see the image.

Write to Folder: This enables users within the permitted roles to upload and delete files using the Link Control on modules such as the Links module.

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