topic Zip files do not get unzipped in Alfresco Archive

Zip files do not get unzipped

adoshea — Mon, 15 Jun 2015 03:05:22 GMT

Hi All,I am having problems drag&drop a zip file (which contains folders and files) into a share/site/documentlibrary. I can drag the zip file into the location, it get copied to the folder but does not unzip. I have looked for information regarding the problem on the forum but don’t seem to b

Re: Zip files do not get unzipped

borisstankov — Mon, 15 Jun 2015 06:40:16 GMT

Hi Tony,

I'm using Alfresco for quite some time now, but I never come across such functionallity.
Would you please put some article where this is stated as a feature? (Everytime I put a zip in docLibrary - every time it's just another file uploaded in the docs.)

Regards!

Re: Zip files do not get unzipped

mrogers — Mon, 15 Jun 2015 10:07:01 GMT

There is no functionality to automatically unzip an archive on upload. Files uploaded remain as they are.

You could unzip with an action. Off the top of my head I don't know whether such an action already exists, but the necessary code is already within alfresco. And you could define a rule to run that action.

Re: Zip files do not get unzipped

borisstankov — Mon, 15 Jun 2015 10:55:00 GMT

Yes, indeed. There is no such functionality.

The advice of mrogers is pritty good and I wasn't aware that this could be added to alfresco.

But here are some topic that I found after some digging:
https://addons.alfresco.com/addons/unzip-share-action-zip
And this is the git project of the above add-on:
https://github.com/atolcd/alfresco-unzip-action
However both links do not include the latest version of the Alfresco 5.0.x, just the old ones.

Hope this helps!

Cheers!