topic Re: automatic file/folder checkin? in Alfresco Archive

automatic file/folder checkin?

ashb — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 13:48:14 GMT

I'm an Alfresco newbie running Labs 3 on Ubuntu but will be supporting many Windows users and will be including/checking-in file and folder structures already existing on Windows systems.My question is this: Can Alfresco (out-of-the-box) be pointed at an existing Windows file/folder structure and pa

Re: automatic file/folder checkin?

mrogers — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 14:02:42 GMT

No you can't point alfresco at an existing file system.

However what you can do is to copy in your files via the Alfresco CIFS or ftp Drives.

Re: automatic file/folder checkin?

ashb — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 14:31:28 GMT

No you can't point alfresco at an existing file system.

However what you can do is to copy in your files via the Alfresco CIFS or ftp Drives.

Thanks for your quick response. Copying files via CIFS seems like the best way to go for us, but one further question: if copying multiple folders full of files, will Alfresco retain file/folder structure when copying (i.e., just like a typical file system copy) or will we be limited to only copying files into existing directories in the Alfresco repository?

Re: automatic file/folder checkin?

mrogers — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 14:32:14 GMT

It's a regular file copy.

Re: automatic file/folder checkin?

ashb — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 15:01:58 GMT

It's a regular file copy.

awesome. i figured it would be but wanted to be sure.

also, what local alfresco path needs to be set up as a cifs share in order to serve up the repository root?