topic Re: How to migrate data from different Ftps as datasource in Alfresco Forum https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-forum/how-to-migrate-data-from-different-ftps-as-datasource/m-p/26924#M11592 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi Alejandro,</P><P>normally you just put documents (PDF, Word,...) in a DMS like Alfresco, because its indexing and previewing capabilities are mainly designed for text centric content. Storing software installers in a DMS is not a good Idea.</P><P>You could import all content into your DMS, transferring (copying) the files to your alfresco server (or mount the filesystems on your alfresco server) and import it via the bulk-importer.</P><P>But you could also create links to your ftp files in the alfresco repo and bind the desired metadata to those links.</P><P>Detecting/monitoring dead links, file movements and access rights in such a setup would be different and more complicated if you have "living" content. You would then have a kind of registry for your ftp content.</P><P>If you also store the index information (or description) on the ftp servers, you could automate an "indexing" process for your ftp content in your alfresco system.</P><P>For example: You have a ftp server ftp01 with a file /path/to/file/TheFile.pdf that has a fellow ftp file /path/to/TheFile.pdf.description in wich you have a YAML, XML or JSON structure with the metadata you are interested in --&gt; Import the description and a ftp/html link to the original file to alfresco, then you can use alfresco functions on the link/description of the linked file. But you won't have a fulltext index of your files, despite you also transfer the text to alfresco...</P><P>This is only one possibility... Depending on what you want to achieve, importing the content directly in alfresco could be the better move.</P><P>By the way - how many documents/files are you talking about?</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 27 Mar 2017 18:40:26 GMT mehe 2017-03-27T18:40:26Z How to migrate data from different Ftps as datasource https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-forum/how-to-migrate-data-from-different-ftps-as-datasource/m-p/26923#M11591 Good Afternoon sir, my name is Alejandro and I'm a software engineer student From Cuba. I'm working in my thesis and right know i have a situation and I cant find a proper solution to my problem. So sorry to disturb you, i know that you are a very busy man, but hopefully you can dedicate a few minut Sun, 26 Mar 2017 18:33:34 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-forum/how-to-migrate-data-from-different-ftps-as-datasource/m-p/26923#M11591 alex90 2017-03-26T18:33:34Z Re: How to migrate data from different Ftps as datasource https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-forum/how-to-migrate-data-from-different-ftps-as-datasource/m-p/26924#M11592 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi Alejandro,</P><P>normally you just put documents (PDF, Word,...) in a DMS like Alfresco, because its indexing and previewing capabilities are mainly designed for text centric content. Storing software installers in a DMS is not a good Idea.</P><P>You could import all content into your DMS, transferring (copying) the files to your alfresco server (or mount the filesystems on your alfresco server) and import it via the bulk-importer.</P><P>But you could also create links to your ftp files in the alfresco repo and bind the desired metadata to those links.</P><P>Detecting/monitoring dead links, file movements and access rights in such a setup would be different and more complicated if you have "living" content. You would then have a kind of registry for your ftp content.</P><P>If you also store the index information (or description) on the ftp servers, you could automate an "indexing" process for your ftp content in your alfresco system.</P><P>For example: You have a ftp server ftp01 with a file /path/to/file/TheFile.pdf that has a fellow ftp file /path/to/TheFile.pdf.description in wich you have a YAML, XML or JSON structure with the metadata you are interested in --&gt; Import the description and a ftp/html link to the original file to alfresco, then you can use alfresco functions on the link/description of the linked file. But you won't have a fulltext index of your files, despite you also transfer the text to alfresco...</P><P>This is only one possibility... Depending on what you want to achieve, importing the content directly in alfresco could be the better move.</P><P>By the way - how many documents/files are you talking about?</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 27 Mar 2017 18:40:26 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-forum/how-to-migrate-data-from-different-ftps-as-datasource/m-p/26924#M11592 mehe 2017-03-27T18:40:26Z