Where to find uploaded files via HTML forms

Development
1

I added an upload option in a HTML forms as mentioned in the below link

https://wiki.openmrs.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=36668565

I want to find if the file has been uploaded properly at least how to get it back. How can I verify this?

2

Hi @akshika47,

There should be a /complex_obs directory inside your OpenMRS directory (at the same level as the /modules directory and the openmrs-runtime.properties file). That is where the complex data is saved by default and where you would find listed your uploaded files.

I assume that there must be some 1.x UI page(s) where to view those though, but I don’t know where it would be either. As for the 2.x UI, note that we are working on a Visit Documents UI module whose aim is precisely that: providing a UI to view & manage complex obs. It is about to enter its early feedback alpha phase. If you are interested, I could ping you again in a week or so to play around with it. It is designed to remain flexible but is initially focusing on images.

3

Thank you very much. I will check this and let you know. :slight_smile:

4

Hi,

I am uploading two photos

  1. the place where I have the modules folder
  2. the place where I have the run time properties file.

Yet I am unable to find the complex obs folder though :frowning:

complex-obs1.png1027×545 47.7 KB

complex-obs2.png909×477 35.9 KB

5

It’s a /modules directory (plural, not ‘module’, the first screenshot that you showed is def the wrong place). I am not sure what happens on Windows but this is what happens on Unix-like systems: OpenMRS creates a hidden directory named .OpenMRS (the prefixed dot hiding the dir on Unix systems) right in the home folder of the user that is launching Tomcat.

I haven’t used Windows in years but I think that this dir would then be hidden at the same level as those: ‘Documents’, ‘Downloads’, ‘Music’… etc. Look for a hidden ‘OpenMRS’ directory there, and inside of it you would find the content described in my other message. Note that I cannot guarantee anything under Windows, I am just telling you where things would be if the same things happens on Windows than what happens on Unix systems.

6

This is the openmrs standalone version, therefore everything should be inside the same folder right??

7

Presumably, yes.

What about this appdata folder? That sounds like a place where everything might be. The add-on modules must be packaged with it, so there must be a modules folder somewhere.

8

complex-obs3.png965×469 28.4 KB

This is inside the appdata folder, there is the modules folder but no complex-obs :confused:

9

Ok, yes that’s the place. You have a person_images dir though, could that be the one?

It seems that it is set as the default dir by EMR API.

10

If that is the case, I am very unlucky since there are no saved files :frowning:

11

In the wiki article you pointed to, did you set the handler as ImageHandler in part 1.4?

12

I think I did. Let me check and let you know. :slight_smile:

13

Debug the save complex obs method and you’ll find out really fast

14

Can I debug the standalone version? :open_mouth:

15

@akshika47 instructions for running the standalone in debug mode can be found here: https://wiki.openmrs.org/display/docs/OpenMRS+Standalone