topic Re: Restrict file types in Alfresco Archive

Restrict file types

muralidharand — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 09:33:36 GMT

Hi experts,How I want to restrict the users for uploading certain file types in document library?

Re: Restrict file types

iblanco — Sat, 14 Jul 2012 18:34:13 GMT

When you say "file types" you refer to mimetypes or content types ? Probably mimetypes.

In any case I think your best option might be creating a behaviour attached to the creation of a content and throwing an error if it is not of a suitable type.

Re: Restrict file types

muralidharand — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 04:07:41 GMT

Can you please give me some samples to understand this ?

Re: Restrict file types

scouil — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 06:27:34 GMT

Hello,

You can find a tutorial on behaviors (with corresponding sample code) on Jeff Pott's blog:
http://ecmarchitect.com/archives/2007/09/26/770/comment-page-1

However if you just need to prevent the access to a one single folder, a folder rule might be cleaner than a behavior.
Tutorial about custom actions:
http://ecmarchitect.com/images/articles/alfresco-actions/actions-article-2ed.pdf