[TYPO3-dev] File Management: Importing files outside of /uploads/pics

[Dmitry Dulepov]

Hi!

Bastiaan Zapf wrote:
> How can I store a file in an arbitary path under
> Typo3's Control and then create (for instance) a
> textpic, that can access it? The image field in
> "textpic" only stores the filename, not the path
> (which defaults to /uploads/pics or something),
> afaics. Do I somehow have to add a file administration
> row? I'm on Typo3 v4 and Plan to use DAM, so I'd also
> want to add metadata. The DAM API has a few calls to
> do exactly this, but these are left blank afaics.

Not really possible. Path to files is stored in $TCA for tt_content
table. It is global to the system.

Dmitry.
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