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Integrate alfresco with svn

smontico — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 20:20:03 GMT

Hi,I'm learning alfresco and i want to migrate all the documents we managed in svn to the alfresco platform.Anyone knows if there's some tool that could help me on doing this?Thanks, Santiago.

Re: Integrate alfresco with svn

attymullins — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 21:07:04 GMT

Hi Santiago,

The simplest way to do this would be to check out a working copy of all of the documents and then copy them to Alfresco using WebDAV.

If you're also interested in moving the metadata from svn to Alfresco (storing the svn comments in the description field for instance), you'll need to generate an ACP file and then import it into Alfresco. For details on ACP files and import/export check the following links:

http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Export_and_Import_View_Schema
http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Export_and_Import#Alfresco_Content_Package_.28ACP.29_File_Format

Atty

Re: Integrate alfresco with svn

norgan — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 07:18:40 GMT

Also, first have some tests with automated business rules. When importing the content via webdav, you could assign certain aspects, metadata, tags, categories automatically, based on your rules (e.g. filenames, space paths etc.) If its standard docs, you even can parse some metadata, stored e.g. in word files.

Re: Integrate alfresco with svn

smontico — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 12:50:33 GMT

Hi,

Thank you for your replies!
I will investigate and try what they're are telling me then….

Thanks, Santiago.

Re: Integrate alfresco with svn

smontico — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 20:53:14 GMT

Hi Atty,

I just used the copy functionality via webdav and work perfectlly!
In order to move the metadata to alfresco as you mentioned there's some automatic tool that could help me to create the ACP file?
Or i have to create these file "mannually" from the information obtained from svn?

Thanks, Santiago

Re: Integrate alfresco with svn

silentcricket — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 03:37:07 GMT

*bump*

I wanted to bring this back into light since my comp is looking into Alfresco. All of our current docs are versioned in svn but we didn't want to lose all the historical versions. If I simply move over a working copy of the latest version, historical versions will be lost.

So, any ideas on how to dump the svn repository into Alfresco Community 3.4.c?

Thanks