Your Storage Locker
Monday, August 13, 2007 - By: Brian D
Much in the same way your computer’s hard drive for stores your files, your AgentAdvantage website uses a “hard drive” of its own. Your Storage Locker allows you to store files for use on your website on our Homes.com servers. Storing files this way eliminates the need for a separate web server. Keeping all of your files in one place just makes your own work on your site that much more streamlined and easy!
Why use the Storage Locker?
With your AgentAdvantage Storage Locker, you can store important documents you can access anywhere you can access the Internet. You many have spreadsheets or .pdf files you may want to incorporate into a listing presentation. Perhaps you are working on articles for your website, but do not want to publish them right away. The Storage Locker keeps these files with your website for quick and easy access.
Beyond simple storage…
The Storage Locker gives you a place to load files so that they can be linked to other areas of your website. In the HTML Editor and other places in your site, you can add pictures in positions for which there are no “Add Photo” dialog boxes in the Control Panel. You can also add links to other content such as .pdf files within articles. The Storage Locker provides your files with URLs, allowing you to link these files to other areas of your site with simple HTML tags.
Opening the Storage Locker
To access your Storage Locker, go to Website Editor à Storage Locker. You will then see a screen looking like this:
From this tabbed page you can do the following:
- Show Files – this allows you to see all of your Storage Locker files. You can see all files at once, or view by file type. You can also delete files on this page.
- Add Files – allows you to upload files to the Storage Locker
- Add Space – you can purchase additional space here for a reasonable fee.
Show Files
By clicking on Show Files you will be directed to this page:
Show Files divides files into a few different document types: Documents, Images, Media Miscellaneous, and All Files (1). Each file type has its own tab. By clicking on the Images tab, you would be taken to a page listing all of the image files in the Storage Locker, etc. Clicking on each tab yields a list of files of that type (2). In this example, there is only one “Document” file in the Storage Locker. For each file listed, a corresponding URL appears. This URL can be cut and paste into a variety of areas in the Control Panel to create a link to your file. You can also delete files by checking the box to the left of the file, and then clicking the DeleteSelected button (3). Finally, a table showing how file types are categorized in the Storage Locker is present at the bottom of the page for your convenience.
Add Files
Clicking on Add Files brings you to this page:
You can upload files of any type from this page. As you can see at the bottom of this page, the same file table from Show Files appears. This way you can find your files after you upload them!
To upload a file;
- Click the Browse button.
- Select the file to upload from your computer, click Open
- The file path now appears in the once blank box. Repeat steps 1 and 2 to upload additional files.
- If you are uploading a newer version of a file named the same as a file already loaded to the Storage Locker, please note the radial buttons at the top of the page.
- Click the blue Upload Files button.
You can choose for the Storage Locker to simply append a number onto the end of the file name to denote a newer version, overwrite the existing file, or skip overwriting the file.
Add Space
Under this tab you can purchase more space. Once you complete this form, our Member Services department will contact you to verify the order.
