I want to put a directory contents on a webpage, and control the view

[SimonDavis]

This seemed simple when I started out, but I can't tell you how much time I've spent trying to solve it . . . getting nowhere.

First thing - this is not something I know the first thing about. I'm strictly amateur, so please be gentle with me.

I've made an intranet for our office, which is just a quick way for people to get access to certain of each others directories without navigating through explorer. It works pretty much as expected, and everybody seems to like it.

Most of the pages have <iframes> on them, which shows what I want it to show, but I have no control over the view - we have a complete mixture of win95, 98, 2k and NT stations, and the default view is used.

So, I want either to; be able to specify the 'details' view, which unless I've missed something is not possible, or another suggestion as to how to contruct an alternative to the simple Iframe.

Summary - I just want a controlable view of files in a local directory displayed on a webpage, but must also be able to double click them to open them in their own application (excel and word files only).

I don't even know if asp is the right way to go, but sure would appreciate some pointers.

Thanks a lot

Simon

 

[krisbrixon]

Here are some thoughts:

1. Maybe setup an FTP server and have each folder point to a different computer.

2. Maybe setup the win2000 computer as a quasi server and keep all the files on that one computer, then just map a drive to that computer.

3. the following link is all I have ever messed with as far as directories go. (all I did was cut and paste)

http://www.asp101.com/samples/viewasp.asp?file=dir_list.asp

http://www.asp101.com/articles/jacob/scriptupload.asp

Kris