topic Re: Folders upload in Alfresco Archive

Folders upload

gcorro — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 13:08:10 GMT

Is there a way to upoad a bunch of files into an space by selecting a folder in the windows explorer?Uploading one file each time is not a good solution if you have thousands of them to be uploaded.thanks!

Re: Folders upload

kevinr — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 14:33:26 GMT

Yes you can use the FTP, CIFS or WebDav interfaces to the repo.

Thanks,

Kevin

Re: Folders upload

gcorro — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 15:29:43 GMT

Supose I have a javadoc zipped, and I upload it in any of the ways you described, later I want to publish the unzipped files so anybody can see them on the web and browse those files as if they were a normal web instance, or ratter I say as if they were a bunch of static html pages available for anybody.

Is that possible? How can I do that?

Re: Folders upload

lgr — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 07:03:47 GMT

Hi,

I think you've got no other easy way than using ftp, cifs or webdav to transfer a folder containing all unzipped filed.

But, you can perhaps do the trick with a custom action or some javascript, to give a folder the ability to transform all your zipped files to an Alfresco space containing the unzipped files.

Anyway, it is yet a lot easier to use webdav, ftp or cifs for transferring a full folder to Alfresco.

Laurent.

Re: Folders upload

kevinr — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 09:12:02 GMT

A user posted the code of an example unzip custom action to the forums a few weeks back.

Thanks,

Kevin

Re: Folders upload

lgr — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 14:00:13 GMT

you'll find it there :
http://forums.alfresco.com/viewtopic.php?t=2490

Laurent.

Re: Folders upload

jcarter — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 20:06:52 GMT

Yes you can use the FTP, CIFS or WebDav interfaces to the repo.

What does that mean? where are these interfaces? This applies to ver 2.0. right? The wiki on import and export didn't make any sense to me - it sounded like it was just talking about importing an exisiting Alfresco configuration to another. Is it possible to bulk upload a group of, say, Word documents?

Re: Folders upload

aduniel — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 09:57:30 GMT

I dont understand the answers.

how can I upload an entire folder? or multiple files in one step? Can anybody explain it, please?

Thank you.

Re: Folders upload

kevinr — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 10:07:22 GMT

The Alfresco repository supports FTP access - you can use an FTP client such as this free one here: http://www.smartftp.com to access folders in the repo and upload (or download) entire folder structures.

You can also use CIFS - this is the name to the network drive interface technology that Alfresco supports - basically you can access Alfresco as a shared network drive - such as \\servername and then copy your files/folders across just like you would using Explorer in windows.

Webdav is another inteface you can access something like this: http://servername:8080/alfresco/webdav - you can map a "web folder" to this address in windows and copy files into that.

>This applies to ver 2.0. right?
These interfaces have been present since 1.1…

Thanks,

Kevin

Re: Folders upload

steve — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 10:32:09 GMT

Hi,

If you are still unsure about what FTP, CIFS and WebDAV are please use Google to find out more about these standard interfaces…

Thanks.

Re: Folders upload

aduniel — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 10:53:17 GMT

Ok, if I have understood it well It is:

1. Create a Space in alfresco
2. Access to that Space with any method described before.
3. Simply, I copy files and folders into that space.

And… Are you thinking in adding an option to alfresco web interface to do this? It would be more simple Â¿no?

Thank you

Re: Folders upload

aduniel — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 11:24:29 GMT

In Alfresco 2.0 installation packet for Linux (Kubuntu):

I am trying configure the alfresco FTP server but I can not do it.

I am reading this information

http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/File_Server_Configuration#FTP_Server_Configuration

but in the alfresco folder, there is not "WEB-INF\classes\alfresco\extension" folder and the file-servers.xml file has not any FTP Section…

How can I configure the alfresco ftp server to upload multiple files?

The FTP access is: ftp://alfrescouserassw@localhostort/what??

Re: Folders upload

lgr — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 11:35:39 GMT

but in the alfresco folder, there is not "WEB-INF\classes\alfresco\extension" folder and the file-servers.xml file has not any FTP Section…

Your extension folder is in ALFRESCO_FOLDER/tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco/extension/

Afterwards, just use your normal ftp client and connect to alfresco with the user you use to connect to the web interface. Your FTP client has to be capable to upload more that one files at once (like all common ftp clients do), there is no special configuration on the alfresco server to permit multiple upload.

the URL for accessing is :
ftp://alfrescouserassw@localhost/Alfresco/

Laurent.

Re: Folders upload

aduniel — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 11:58:52 GMT

Ok, thank you 🙂

I added <port>NumPort</port> to FTP section (sorry, FTP section was there ops: ) for file

ALFRESCO_FOLDER/tomcat/webapps/alfresco/WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/file-servers.xml

and I have connected with

ftp://alfrescouserassw@localhost:NumPort/Alfresco/

I had another ftp server installed in my computer using port 21.

Thanks a lot

Re: Folders upload

jcarter — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 15:01:32 GMT

The Alfresco repository supports FTP access - you can use an FTP client such as this free one here: http://www.smartftp.com to access folders in the repo and upload (or download) entire folder structures.

You can also use CIFS - this is the name to the network drive interface technology that Alfresco supports - basically you can access Alfresco as a shared network drive - such as \\servername and then copy your files/folders across just like you would using Explorer in windows.

Webdav is another inteface you can access something like this: http://servername:8080/alfresco/webdav - you can map a "web folder" to this address in windows and copy files into that.

>This applies to ver 2.0. right?
These interfaces have been present since 1.1…

Thanks,

Kevin

Thanks, that's a little clearer.
Like aduniel I guess I was looking for these "interfaces" in the Alfesco "interface". When you used the term interface I thought you meant its GUI. So then a bulk upload is not possible using the Alfresco GUI - I have to 'manually' transfer files to some folder in the Alfresco directory? Which folder(s) do I put them in?
I'm just trying Alfresco out so it is currently installed on my PC on C: and the files I want to add are on a network drive. So I have to map from my own PC to my own C drive?
Sorry for what probably seems to you like silly questions. If there's a better place to post, let me know.

Re: Folders upload

lgr — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 15:20:07 GMT

The only need is that the files are reachable from your pc, so that your ftp client can read them to send them to Alfresco webdav, cifs of ftp interfaces.

So, the network folder must be mapped from your pc i think, and you'll be able to drag and drop its content to Alfresco through your client.

Laurent.

Re: Folders upload

jcarter — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 16:50:27 GMT

The only need is that the files are reachable from your pc, so that your ftp client can read them to send them to Alfresco webdav, cifs of ftp interfaces.

So, the network folder must be mapped from your pc i think, and you'll be able to drag and drop its content to Alfresco through your client.

Laurent.

OK, mapping a web folder was easy and I could copy and paste files. Note though when mapping, the Alfresco server had to be started. Since this workedI don't see a benefit to ftp files from a network drive to my own pc . thanks

Re: Folders upload

jcox — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 17:09:55 GMT

If you're just trying to do a bulk import of a website to
bootstrap yourself, just bundle it up as a war file:

jar -cvf example.war *

Then within a sandbox of your new web project, import it via:

"create > bulk import"

Re: Folders upload

sutirtha2008 — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 15:32:04 GMT

We are successful to make an web interface(http) which does the Multiple Upload in Alfresco other than CIFS and Webdav or ftp. It's a Applet Servlet combination. and also can add custom meta datas which are not inbuilt in Alfresco. If interested pl mail sutirthagh@yahoo.com :idea:

Re: Folders upload

agey — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 15:39:48 GMT

Hello all,

I wanted to be able to upload many files to Alfresco but not using cifs, ftp or webdav interfaces. Can someone send me any solution for the multiple upload files in Alfresco? Does someone know how to do it?

Thanks.