topic Re: Enable the activities posting for WebDAV in Alfresco Archive

Enable the activities posting for WebDAV

davorr — Sun, 10 Jun 2012 21:25:51 GMT

HelloWe run Alfresco Community v4.0.0In the dashlet "Site Activities" (Alfresco Share, Alfresco iPad etc) are beeing published only the file transfers via browser (Alfresco Share).We would like to see the WebDAV or FTP transfers as well.We have found that there is a possibility to configure this:htt

Re: Enable the activities posting for WebDAV

davorr — Sun, 10 Jun 2012 22:51:55 GMT

OK, we now have just found out, that is not possible by design:
"Only operations initialised by the Share UI support posting activities."
https://issues.alfresco.com/jira/browse/ALF-5669?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel
https://forums.alfresco.com/en/viewtopic.php?f=47&t=43452

What a pitty!
Though, from the user experience point of view, this is a serious restriction.
Why not to track FTP,WebDab, CMIS activities?

Re: Enable the activities posting for WebDAV

davorr — Sun, 10 Jun 2012 23:11:33 GMT

But then again, now we've found this:

"Content that you add to Alfresco this way is versioned and counted against your quota. Changes you make to content (uploads, edits, and deletions) appear in activity feeds."
http://docs.alfresco.com/cloud/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.alfresco.cloud.doc%2Ftasks%2Fwebdav-setup-cloud.html

So, according to this it should appear in the activities!
But how???

Re: Enable the activities posting for WebDAV

mward — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 17:20:34 GMT

This functionality is in HEAD, and can be enabled by setting the following property (e.g. alfresco-global.properties):


system.webdav.activities.enabled=true
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The issue is detailed here:

https://issues.alfresco.com/jira/browse/ALF-13441

Re: Enable the activities posting for WebDAV

davorr — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 22:36:02 GMT

tnx! we implemented it as followed:

# WebDAV initialization properties
system.webdav.servlet.enabled=true
system.webdav.storeName=${protocols.storeName}
system.webdav.rootPath=${protocols.rootPath}
system.webdav.activities.enabled=false (true)‍‍‍‍‍

then i uploaded some files via webdav.
but nothing happens in the alfresco share dashlet "activities".
It doesn't show the uploaded file…

Re: Enable the activities posting for WebDAV

davorr — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 23:10:16 GMT

Good news: the webdav changes are visibile now in the dashlet "Recently Modified Documents".
So, we are going to use this one to track changes.
The dashlet "Site Activities" still doesn't show any webdav traffic…

btw. this congif modification worked out only on our debian installation. on ubuntu it didn't work out (although the same config.)

tnx again for your help!