Uploading Files

If you create links to files on a page, you have to transfer these files to the web server independently from the content of the page. This requires an additional production step to complete the file link. You cannot compose binaries by the means provided by the web server, but have to create them offline using your image editing and music composer software. After that, you upload the created files en bloc. Yet, the top-down approach of content creation still applies. As with pages, where a parent introduces a child through a link, files, too, can be brought into existence by placing links in a document and by following such a link to the respective upload form. As with pages, you should assign your files significant and meaningful names.

The equivalent of editing a page several times is to upload a file with the same name more than once. As with pages, tick the option Create new version to create a new, distinctive version of the file, or leave it unticked to overwrite the latest version by the new version you are about to provide. If an other user provided the latest version, Pie will always create a new version of the file. Users are not allowed to overwrite each other's work.

Note that the name of the file used on the server and the name of the file stored on your hard disk do not need to be the same. The former is specified using the File name text field, while the latter is chosen in the save panel of your composition software.