topic Re: File Properties and CIFS in Alfresco Archive

File Properties and CIFS

omegerard — Thu, 17 Nov 2005 10:58:36 GMT

Hi,When you upload a (Word) document via the web interface, Alfresco automatically extracts meta info from the Word File Properties. When you "upload" a document via CIFS (i.e. when you copy the file into the space) this does not happen (well, you get weird info). I tried a content rule solution, b

Re: File Properties and CIFS

jokipii — Thu, 17 Nov 2005 12:05:02 GMT

Hi

Alfresco use org.alfresco.repo.content.metadata.MetadataExtracter interface to extract metadata from different mime types. Currently there isn't implementation for TeX extracter. But it is simple to add there.

In version 1.0 metadata extraction is invoked only from web interface. I hope that in future content rules offered as a solution.

Re: File Properties and CIFS

bojo — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:13:03 GMT

To extract meta data on upload via CIFS you should create a rule with action = "Extract common metadata fields from content".