topic Re: Creation date in Alfresco Archive

Creation date

dschmalz — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 14:06:32 GMT

Hi,When importing a lot of documents in Alfresco, it may be desirable to read the "creation date" property from the file metadata. A concrete example is the MS Office files that contain this information. The corresponding metadata extracter does the parsing but it seems that the "auditable" aspect i

Re: Creation date

sagar — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 01:05:15 GMT

I have extensively looked at this issue from CIFS angle.

Normally, in any filesystem, when you copy a set of older files to a new folder, the files' older date is retained. But, in cifs filesystem it is overriden with the current date.

You are right, the auditable class overrides the dates. So, I have changed the class to not to overide if the properties are set.

But, in cifs case, the files created dt, modified dt, etc are not captured from the SMB packets. Hence, the method procNTCreateAndX(..) calls the filefolderservice to create a default node with just the node name as the file name.

In my opinion, this is a very important feature.

Re: Creation date

sagar — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 18:30:00 GMT

I fixed a bit of the code and now I'm able to get/set original modified date.

But, still the original created date is empty.

Sagar

Re: Creation date

sagar — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 18:54:28 GMT

Sorry, though completed this part long back..I remembered about this post today. So, what happens in real life (in Explorer) when you copy an older file is that it retains the modified date but updates the created and accessed date to current date. So, the original created date is forgotten intentionally, no idea why.

So, I could fix only the modified date issue and the created & accessed dates, obviously, are current. So, just like in Windows Explorer. And, correct me if I'm wrong, it is the same behavior on almost all the OS.

Re: Creation date

marc1911 — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 14:45:17 GMT

Hi there,

It would be great if there's a solution to keep the creation date of my documents that I'm bulk uploading through CIFS. Is there any progress on a solution or workaround.

Re: Creation date

bvcrowell — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 15:27:46 GMT

Has there been any further progress on a solution to retaining the original file date of migrated content?

This is very urgent in my organization. We have over five years of files that are being migrated from another ECM to Alfresco. Everything is in place to "go live" as soon as we can resolve the issue of retaining original file dates and times.

Does anyone have any further suggestions. I have my Developers working feverishly to try to find a workaround that is acceptable to the end user so we can deploy Alfresco enterprise-wide, but this is a real show stopper in a very high profile environment.

Thank you so much for your attention to this matter.

Re: Creation date

paulhh — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 14:20:31 GMT

I think what is needed is an extra property that holds the creation date of the document (in addition to the creation date of the object in Alfresco). This property can then be filled by either metadata extraction (e.g. from office documents), or as part of a data migration that passes the file system creation date as metadata in addition to the content itself.

Doing either of these should be straight-forward with the current Alfresco capabilities.

Also, if you are seriously going into production, you probably want to pay for support - and if there's a real likelihood of happening, then there's a chance we may give some "pre-sales" help to get you there.

Cheers
Paul.

Re: Creation date

tschiller — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 16:33:22 GMT

I am having a similar problem- http://forums.alfresco.com/viewtopic.php?p=31542#31542
Before I go and recommend this product to my company, I want to make sure that something like this can be fixed, though! Please advise. Thanks!

Re: Creation date

hkusulja — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 11:27:14 GMT

Hi!

I am new to alfresco, and I have installed alfresco-community 2.1…, open office is also installed on server

we want to migrate from windows shareing to alfresco…

when i create new user in alfresco, and get access through samba(cifs) or web upload.., the created and modefied date are from today..

i have read this and one other topic about that problem ( http://forums.alfresco.com/viewtopic.php?p=31542#31542 )
and i didn't find solution..

If I move/copy my file from my documents to one windows machine computer which has sharing, dateas and times are original (so that's ok), but when move it to alfresco, they have today's dates…

Did somebody find a solution? it's emergency and very important…
(there are lot of extension types: pdf, doc, xls, jpg, ….)

(and sorry for my bad english)

Re: Creation date

rjackson — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 19:36:10 GMT

See this post:
http://forums.alfresco.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=7792&p=38119#p38119

I got this to work