Bug in Save as Dialog browser?

[antjedi]

I need to figure this out ASAP.

I have a button for saving the currently selected file from a list box to the users C drive...but when the file browse dialog box comes up, the name field is ALWAYS blank--I was using %ItemName% (a variable defined by the list) as the file name and *.jpg as the extention--but neither show up. %ItemName% works great in the "Dialog Title" part...as well as the text in the button. "Save %ItemName% to your computer".

I even tried it with asdf in the name field and .abc in the extention field...no go. it's just blank when run. The filter is "All files (*.*)|*.*|"

HELP!?!?

[John-oh]

Re: Bug in Save as Dialog browser?

Yes, I appear to get the same. Maybe a Windows limitation ?

Have you considered File / Copy action ?

John-oh

[antjedi]

Re: Bug in Save as Dialog browser?

yes, except I want the user to choose where to save the file...and they're confused by the "pick a folder" option only, since they want to put the file name in as they are accustomed--the target user here is NOT very PC literate at all--for example durring testing today, I put the CD rom in and it didn't autoplay; i opened up my computer and i saw no icon for a CD rom drive. I asked what letter was the CD rom and she said "it's the D: drive" well the D drive was a 1.5GB partition. Her CD rom Drive wasn't connected! she'd been religiously putting in a CDRW disk every day to backup her files to the local D: partition, and never knew the difference, because her files were always there after she put the CDRW disk in!

[Darryl]

Re: Bug in Save as Dialog browser?

I have confirmed this as well and have submitted a bug report to our developers to look into. Thank you for pointing this out.

[antjedi]

Re: Bug in Save as Dialog browser?

Is there any sort of work around for this? I discovered it in testing of my final product which is supposed to go into duplication by the end of the week. What are some alternatives that I can use? Ideas anyone!?!

thinking outloud:
I played around with using folder browse and that still confuses the users because they want to save the FILE not the FOLDER where it should go... (and i'm not so sure now that folder browse even works that great...it may have a similar problem). Someone suggested using file copy, but the user needs to know where it ends up, and should put it where they want...I suppose i could hard-code it to the desktop; but that limits the few educated users who want to do something else with it...
/thinking outloud

[John-oh]

Re: Bug in Save as Dialog browser?

If you used file copy and a dialog box ? You could also put a shortcut on the Desktop, that way the simple souls could use 'as is' and the rest could copy as required / delete shortcut etc...

:

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<CustomErrorMessage/>
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<JumpToLabel/>
</ErrorHandling>
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</Action>
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<CustomErrorMessage/>
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<JumpToLabel/>
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<CustomErrorMessage/>
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%MyDocumentsDir%\Text Folder
and a Shortcut placed on your Desktop</DialogMessage>
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