topic Incorrect metadata for uploaded files in Alfresco Archive

Incorrect metadata for uploaded files

geoffr — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 20:56:36 GMT

HiI have just started tinkering with Alfresco 3.4.d as a file repository for Moodle 2.1.1I'm using an 'out-of-the-box' Alfresco 3.4.d community bundle installed on CentOS 5 Linux.Have noticed that files (e.g. PDF, .doc) uploaded via the Explorer (/alfresco) interface do not seem to be associated wit

Re: Incorrect metadata for uploaded files

geoffr — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 13:56:24 GMT

Stumbled across a solution to this:

http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=169345#p742902

Simply had to switch from 'Article' to 'Content' in the 'Add Content Dialog'. Now files have appropriate Metadata and are visible to Moodle.

A couple of follow-up questions

1. I may well be overlooking something obvious, but is there a direct way to switch already uploaded files from 'Article' to 'Content' i.e. without re-uploading them?

2. Is there a way of configuring the 'Add Content Dialog' to default to 'Content' rather than 'Article'?

Cheers

Geoff

Re: Incorrect metadata for uploaded files

andreas_stoeffe — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 08:21:41 GMT

Hi Geoff,

maybe it's possible tp create a rule in Alfresco, which affects the folder with the PDF files and set the rule to "specialize type".
Then the rule changes all documents in that folder to the type "content".
I use rules for converting Office documents to PDF.

Andreas