topic XML Imports in Alfresco Archive

XML Imports

tjholmes — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 16:54:33 GMT

I am a newbie to Alfresco, so I'll apologize for that now.I am at my wits end when it comes to importing. I have the Community Edition of Alfresco 2.1. MySQL 5.0 Community Edition, and running on Linux.I created some new content types, and I entered data for these new content types manually with

Re: XML Imports

kevinr — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 09:57:00 GMT

Reverse engineering is always fun The ISO date format used in ACP files is quite strict (well it is generated) such as:

2007-07-05T17:44:45.322+02:00

So make sure your XML file has the same date format

YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MMS.MMM+ZZ:ZZ

You can google for the date format for more info.

Hope this helps,

Kevin

Re: XML Imports

tjholmes — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 16:47:32 GMT

Thankfully, Alfresco is open source and I can change the internal code.
The fact that I have to use this restrictive form isn't very good. If I have a data such as 2007-01-01 … and it would parse correctly in Java … then internally within the import, the conversion to the ISO format should be done.

In any event, I did Google this ISO format and found the Java code I needed to convert my java.util.Data to a string in this ISO format. From all the questions on this issue, you'd think the documentation would be a lot better.