topic Re: Drag and drop error in Alfresco Archive

Drag and drop error

toze — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 08:22:58 GMT

The following error pops to me, when i drag and drop a folder into a folder in share!the following cannot be up uploaded because they are either folders or are zero bytes in size "undefined"can anyone help me with this? or how to solve this?in the log shows Caused by: org.alfresco.service.cmr.repos

Re: Drag and drop error

pmverma — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 09:43:20 GMT

Hello Toze,

You have identified your problem

when i drag and drop a folder into a folder in share!

We can only drag and drop a file or files but not a folder.

Cheers,
pmverma.

Re: Drag and drop error

ddraper — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 12:20:57 GMT

Here is some additional information relating to drag-and-drop folder upload…

When the drag-and-drop file upload capability was added for 4.0 the only browsers that supported it were Chrome and FireFox and neither provided support for folder upload. Share is only able to work with what information is provided to it by the browser and at the time the browsers were either not recognizing folders as valid items or were reporting them as 0 byte length files (which is technically accurate). Since the original implementation both browsers have updated their APIs to provide proprietary support for folder upload and we have an open JIRA issue (https://issues.alfresco.com/jira/browse/ALF-15548) to address handling this problem. Unfortunately both solutions do not adhere to a common standard so we have yet to decide on the correct approach to dealing with folder uploads.

Regards,
Dave

Re: Drag and drop error

pmverma — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 12:36:20 GMT

Hi Dave,
I think you say something like "Firefox supports for folder upload".

but I am also not able to upload folder with folder with Firefox.

am I going wrong :wink:

Thank you,
pmverma

Re: Drag and drop error

mrogers — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 13:22:42 GMT

no folder upload is not implemented.

Re: Drag and drop error

ddraper — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 13:29:56 GMT

Folder upload as a *CONCEPT* is supported by the latest releases of some browsers. Share does NOT support that concept because the drag-and-drop upload handling code in Share was written before browsers added support for the concept. Basically you cannot upload folders into Share, regardless of what browser you try with.

Re: Drag and drop error

pmverma — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 02:45:34 GMT

Thank you all for sharing knowledge.

aap ka pyara,
pmverma

Re: Drag and drop error

bedge — Thu, 27 Feb 2014 20:33:36 GMT

Any updates on this? It's been over a year since the last post on this thread.
http://updates.html5rocks.com/2012/07/Drag-and-drop-a-folder-onto-Chrome-now-available

Re: Drag and drop error

ddraper — Tue, 04 Mar 2014 09:48:34 GMT

We're unlikely to support browser proprietary solutions until they become standards. I don't believe this capability is high on the feature road map.