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Webscript in order to create folders automatically

rplana6 — Wed, 28 Jan 2015 09:57:07 GMT

Hi to everybody,I am trying to create folders automatically using a web script. I am completely new in Alfresco and I've been studying the documentation published in the official website: https://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Web_Scripts. Even having carefully studied all this documentation I cannot write

Re: Webscript in order to create folders automatically

resplin — Thu, 29 Jan 2015 04:43:28 GMT

The official documentation on this subject is pretty good:

http://docs.alfresco.com/5.0/concepts/ws-webscripts.html

You should also look at the examples in the DataDictionary folder of your repository.

And this tutorial:

http://ecmarchitect.com/alfresco-developer-series-tutorials/webscripts/tutorial/tutorial.html

Re: Webscript in order to create folders automatically

rplana6 — Thu, 26 Feb 2015 09:59:35 GMT

Hi resplin,

Sorry for not answering before but I've been really busy the last days and I couldn't respond properly. Thanks for all the information. It has been really helpful and I could design a webscript which works perfectly.

Right know I'd like to import data from a csv file via a webscript. My issue is to create some folders using names given via csv file. Is that possible? If the possibilities exists, could you please tell me the way to carry it out?

Thanks again!
Roberto

Re: Webscript in order to create folders automatically

gravitonian — Thu, 26 Feb 2015 14:53:00 GMT

Hi Roberto,

I don't know if you did implement a Java-backed Web Script when you looked at Jeff Potts blog about it, if you did you are half way there already. In the Java controller, use something like Apache POI to open up the CSV file and read the folder names, then use FileFolder Service or Node Service to create the folder names.
If you implemented a JavaScript controller you will not be able to read the CSV so change to a Java-backed controller instead.

Let me know how you get along,

Re: Webscript in order to create folders automatically

rplana6 — Sat, 28 Feb 2015 10:44:19 GMT

Hi gravitonian,

First of all thank you for your quick answer. Unfortunately I implemented a JavaScript controller which works perfectly, I am pretty new in alfresco and I am not familiar with Java-backed Web Script at all. Could you please give me an example of how to implement it? I'll be very grateful.

I really appreciate any help you can provide.
Roberto

Re: Webscript in order to create folders automatically

gravitonian — Tue, 17 Mar 2015 08:14:02 GMT

Hi,

See the following two blog posts for example of Java-backed controller for a Web Script:
http://ecmarchitect.com/alfresco-developer-series-tutorials/webscripts/tutorial/tutorial.html#posting-a-rating-with-a-java-backed-web-script
http://www.marversolutions.com/wordpress/2012/03/05/creating-alfresco-share-sites-with-javascript-2nd-ed/#Web_Script_Java_Controller

If you don't have a build project setup yet now might be a good time to fix that. See https://github.com/Alfresco/alfresco-sdk/