Download History Files

lolmourne — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 08:33:30 GMT

hello, i'm new at alfresco. I wanna ask if alfresco can track who is download the file, and how many times it has been downloaded. (the next question is how I implement that)

Re: Download History Files

afaust — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 09:28:58 GMT

Hello,

generally, Alfresco can track any kind of access via the Audit feature. Specifically, "download" is hard to track due to the different behaviors of the interfaces and clients, i.e. via HTTP or CIFS. I've tried to track and count downloads in my entry for last years Dashlet Challenge and had to admit defeat since I found no way to reliably count downloads without leaving at least one significant hole for false-positives that could mess up my counts.

I have seen a couple of simple implementations that rely on a custom download action in the Share UI to submit an AJAX call to a counting web script when the user hits "Download" before redirecting the client to the actual download URL. This works as long as you discount the option of users to cancel their download, either in a "Save or View" pop-up or while it is in progress. It just counts the number of times the action is clicked for that file. If that is sufficient for you and you don't need to consider other interfaces like CIFS or WebDAV, then this is an easy customization to do.

Regards
Axel

Re: Download History Files

cristina_lancio — Mon, 05 Oct 2015 16:06:19 GMT

Hi,
what do you do to have this result?
can you describe more specifically what do you do?

thanks in advance,
Cristina.

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