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Version: 2026

Sitemap file for Google
To better analyze the content of the sites, the search engine of Google uses an XML file named "Sitemap" (if it is available)...
Analysis: Description of data file structure
The analysis allows you to define the structure of data files used by the project...
Uploading files
Uploading consists in saving a file located on the user's computer to a web server...
Handling the external files
WINDEV, WINDEV Mobile and WEBDEV propose several functions allowing you to manage the external files from your WINDEV/WINDEV Mobile applications or from your WEBDEV websites...
FileToURI (Function)
Saves the contents of a file to a resource identified by its URI.
How to loop through the files of a directory?
This help page presents the different methods that can be used to loop through the files of a directory.
Custom-Folders in the analysis
Several file descriptions can be grouped into a "Custom-Folder"...
<Pivot table>.ToExcel (Function)
Creates an Excel file with data from a Pivot Table control.
<Icon variable>.SaveICO (Function)
Saves an image in icon format either in a file, or in memory.
<Chart>.SaveBMP (Function)
Saves a chart that was previously drawn in a file in BMP format.
<Chart>.SaveEMF (Function)
Saves a chart that was drawn beforehand in a file in EMF format.
<hdfsConnection variable>.CopyFrom (Function)
Copies a file found on a Hadoop server to the local computer.
<hdfsConnection variable>.CopyTo (Function)
Copies a file located on the local machine to a Hadoop server.
<Multimedia>.Stop (Function)
Stops playing a media file found in a Multimedia control.
<Multimedia>.Beginning (Function)
Positions at the beginning of the media file played in the Multimedia control.
<Multimedia>.Status (Function)
Indicates the status of the multimedia file played in the Multimedia control.
<Multimedia>.End (Function)
Positions at the end of media file played in the Multimedia control.
DateLastAccessed (Property)
The DateLastAccessed property gets the date the file was last accessed.
pdfParameter (Type of variable)
The pdfParameter type defines all the characteristics of the PDF file to be generated.
HTMLEditorToPDF (Function)
Exports the content of an HTML Editor control to a PDF file.
<HTML editor>.ToPDF (Function)
Exports the content of an HTML Editor control to a PDF file.
PDFClose (Function)
Closes the PDF file loaded in memory in a pdfDocument variable.
iSetAdditionalXMP (Function)
Adds XMP tags to the metadata of the generated PDF file.
<Source>.DeactivateFilter (Function)
Temporarily disables the filter on a data file (view or query).
<Source>.RetrieveRecord (Function)
Returns the content of the current record (in a file, a view or a query, ...).
<Source>.DeleteAll (Function)
Deletes all records from a data file, an HFSQL view or a query.
<Source>.Filter (Function)
Defines and enables a filter on a data file, view or query.
<Source>.FilterStartsWith (Function)
Defines and enables a "Start with" filter on a file, view or query.
<Source>.FilterIncludedBetween (Function)
Defines and enables an "Included between" filter on a file, view or query.
<Source>.Read (Function)
Reads a record in a file according to a given record number.
<Source>.Password (Function)
Defines the password used to create or open a data file.
<Source>.GetCurrentPosition (Function)
Returns the approximate position of current record in the data file.