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where are data?

_valerio_ — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 11:39:40 GMT

Hi everybodyI want to know where is the file (in Alfresco 3.0) in which is written the directory in which are stored the files that are inserted in Alfresco and how to modify this setting.I have a folder in my filesystem in which users store their files (in pdf format); I want alfresco to get the fi

Re: where are data?

mrogers — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 19:47:32 GMT

You set where alfresco will store its content by changing the "dir.root" property.   On 3.2 this is in alfresco-global.properties.     Please note that you should secure this location against anything reading the content other than alfresco and the backup software.

For the second part of your posting there's nothing out of the box that will do what you want.    However you could have a scheduled job that looks in a file system and uploads any content it reads there.

Perhaps a better way to achieve what you want would be to allow upload to a "staging" space.    And then you can run some sort of approval filter over the content of staging and move the good stuff elsewhere and delete the junk.

Re: where are data?

_valerio_ — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 09:06:16 GMT

Thanks mrogers for your reply
I just have some other questions

You set where alfresco will store its content by changing the "dir.root" property.On 3.2 this is in alfresco-global.properties.

I had Alfresco 3.0; there isn't the file alfresco-global.properties; I found the entry dir.root in tomcat/webapps/alfresco/WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/repository.properties. It si the correct file to configure or shall I create and edit alfresco-global.properties?

For the second part of your posting there's nothing out of the box that will do what you want. However you could have a scheduled job that looks in a file system and uploads any content it reads there.

How can I put in practice this? I had to write some kind of code?