topic Re: Bulk upload and tagging: starting point? in Alfresco Archive

Bulk upload and tagging: starting point?

dmallen — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 14:42:06 GMT

I'm using Alfresco Labs 3b, and I'm looking for the right documentation on how to do bulk upload and tagging.I have a few hundred office documents (XLS, DOC, PPT) and a single Excel sheet with user-assigned tags and categories for most of the documents. What I'm trying to accomplish is to jam all o

Re: Bulk upload and tagging: starting point?

derek — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 15:04:39 GMT

Hi,

There are several ways that this could be tackled. If you write a remote Alfresco client, you could use Web Scripts or even Web Services. If you use embedded code, you could make use of the Foundation Services such as FileFolderService. Take a look at some of the SDK samples.

The problem with CIFS, FTP and WebDAV is that they don't allow the setting of proprietary properties.

Re: Bulk upload and tagging: starting point?

dmallen — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 14:32:05 GMT

Thanks derek – I'm getting started looking into the foundational API which looks like it might be a decent match with what I already can do code-wise and what I need to accomplish.

Now off to wrestle with eclipse and compile dependencies…