topic Re: Web project to desktop in Alfresco Archive

Web project to desktop

ash — Tue, 07 Jan 2014 12:50:31 GMT

Hi,[using 4.2 community]I am looking for any solution where i want to take updates from my company alfresco server(specially the updates in web projects, although i know AVM deprecation, but its required in my case) to my local desktop.Is there any tool or service available for that or i need to con

Re: Web project to desktop

mrogers — Tue, 07 Jan 2014 13:10:57 GMT

If your data is in AVM then deploy it to a filesystem deployment receiver.

Re: Web project to desktop

ash — Tue, 07 Jan 2014 16:12:00 GMT

thanks mrogers for the reply,
actually my scenario is that we cannot modify the settings of the deployed web project in the alfresco server and deploying it to a filesystem deployment receiver would need me to do that[correct me if wrong].
So is there any other approach to do that ?
(may be something like we checkout and take updates from any svn)

Re: Web project to desktop

mrogers — Tue, 07 Jan 2014 16:37:51 GMT

Sorry, I don't understand what you are asking. Could you try to reword your questions more clearly.

Re: Web project to desktop

ash — Tue, 07 Jan 2014 17:27:22 GMT

Pardon my bad explanation..
I am trying to get all the modified assets within a web project from my company's alfresco server and then download them to my file system.
Due to network issues and very large size, whole web project cannot be downloaded every time, so i would only like to get the final updated/modified assets by all users of the web project, from the alfresco server. how can i achieve it..

Re: Web project to desktop

mrogers — Tue, 07 Jan 2014 17:36:00 GMT

That's what the file system deployment receiver is for. Deployment only pushes the deltas. AVM is very much like SVN in regard to how it works with changes.

Re: Web project to desktop

ash — Wed, 08 Jan 2014 02:16:00 GMT

Thanks mrogers,
that would be a solution but it would also require to configure my company's alfresco server for file system deployment receiver[plz correct if wrong] and that is what i am trying to avoid. Any other approach you may suggest (like Alfresco desktop sync or may be through APIs)

Re: Web project to desktop

mrogers — Wed, 08 Jan 2014 09:00:00 GMT

I don't understand. What's the aversion to configuring the alfresco server. How would an 'api' be better. If you really want then of course the Apis are available, however it's a lot work reinventing what's already there.

Re: Web project to desktop

ash — Wed, 08 Jan 2014 14:39:26 GMT

Thanks mrogers,
totally agree with you that its timeconsuming, so is there any tool available that would do that work, or any alternative approach to file system deployment receiver..?

Re: Web project to desktop

mrogers — Wed, 08 Jan 2014 15:08:00 GMT

Look, if you have content in an AVM web project then you should use the deployment server. I still don't understand your aversion to configuring one. Its an essential part of that solution and that's what it is there for. There are other options with deployment, but an aversion to changing config is a showstopper.
Perhaps I should ask why you have content in a Web Project if you are not using the AVM?

You can knock up something that pulls content from the repo using the RMI or FTP if you really want to, but frankly its likely to be a waste of time.

Or is your requirement really that you want to pull content rather than push?

Re: Web project to desktop

ash — Wed, 08 Jan 2014 15:52:31 GMT

"Or is your requirement really that you want to pull content rather than push?"

yes, exactly this is the situation.