Not sure which forum to post this in, but I thought it would help other DMX users.

One of my clients has a need to upload large files with DMX (>30MB). Sometimes these are PowerPoint files with lots of embedded images, or they may be a zip file of a folder structure they want to upload to DMX which are over 100MB. Either way, we had timeouts occur which aborted the upload process and obviously frustrated the user.

I have finally resolved this problem after I stumbled across a forum post on the DNN site. This post made me aware of timeout value which can be placed in the web.config file to extend the default execution timeout for file uploads. The parameter is called executionTimeout (pretty clever name, huh?)

Along with "maxRequestLength" you can adjust this time to allow for the overall operation. Here's an example with maxRequestLength set to allow 100MB file sizes, and allow the operation to take up to 10 minutes executionTimeout="600":

    <!-- allow large file uploads -->
          useFullyQualifiedRedirectUrl="true"
      maxRequestLength="100000"
      requestLengthDiskThreshold="8192"
      executionTimeout="600" />

For a zip file, which is to be unzipped by DMX, it involves uploading the file, unzipping the file in a temporary location, then adding everything to the DMX collection.

As a test, I uploaded a 62MB zip of folders/files which took about 6 minutes to complete on my server.

I hope this helps someone else!

Rob Ralston