JavaScript/jQuery FileManager - Getting Started

The FileManager UI component allows users to manage files and directories.

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The following code creates the FileManager UI component and adds it to your page.

$(function () {
    $("#file-manager").dxFileManager({
        //...
    });
});

<div id="file-manager"></div>

Create a file system provider that allows you to access and modify file systems.

To bind the FileManager UI component to a hierarchical data structure, create an Object file system provider and assign the array of hierarchical JSON objects to the provider's data property. The Object file system provider automatically binds data objects to the UI component if the data objects have the default 'name', 'size', 'dateModified', etc., fields in their structure. For example:

var fileSystem = [
{
    name: "MyFolder.jpg",
    size: 1024,
    dateModified: "2019/05/08",
    thumbnail: "/thumbnails/images/jpeg.ico",
    isDirectory: true,
    items: [
        // ...
        // Nested data objects with the same structure
        // ...
    ]
    // ...
}];

In the example below, the FileManager UI component displays hierarchical data stored in an in-memory array that contains fields with conventional names:

$(function() {
    $("#file-manager").dxFileManager({            
        fileSystemProvider: fileSystem,
        // ...
    });
});

var fileSystem = [{
    name: "Documents",
    isDirectory: true,
    items: [{
        name: "Projects",
        isDirectory: true,
        items: [{
            name: "About.rtf",
            isDirectory: false,
            size: 1024
        }, {
            name: "Passwords.rtf",
            isDirectory: false,
            size: 2048
        }]
    }, {
        name: "About.xml",
        isDirectory: false,
        size: 1024
    }]
}];

See Also

• Bind to an Object File System