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Download all documents within a site/folder along with metadata information

kartech11 — Mon, 23 Jul 2018 08:02:06 GMT

Hi,I currently have an alfresco production instance on which I have setup my content model, sites and folders using the Share UI. I now am looking to bootstrap all the above and I gather that if the content model has been setup in Model Manager via the Share UI, implementing a bootstrap version of t

Re: Download all documents within a site/folder along with metadata information

jpotts — Mon, 23 Jul 2018 13:43:09 GMT

If you are installing a new instance of the same version of Alfresco, and you want everything in the old instance to be in the new instance, and you are not changing databases, it is far easier to simply dump the database, tar up the content store and the database dump, then do the reverse into your new instance. Then you'll have an exact replica of the old instance without having to write any scripts.

Regarding your other questions, why would you use CMIS to download, then the REST API to upload? You can use CMIS to do both the download and the upload if you decide to go that route.

In my opinion, it is pretty easy to use CMIS to download folders, files, and metadata. If you don't use my database dump-and-load suggestion, I'd use CMIS.

Re: Download all documents within a site/folder along with metadata information

cesarista — Mon, 23 Jul 2018 14:24:54 GMT

Hi:

In addition, if you do not need your sys-uuid information, I would consider to use bulk export tool in the source:

GitHub - vprince1/alfresco-bulk-export: Automatically exported from code.google.com/p/alfresco-bulk-export

and then to use Alfresco bulk import tool in the target with the exported data.

Regards.

--C.

Re: Download all documents within a site/folder along with metadata information

kartech11 — Mon, 23 Jul 2018 16:30:39 GMT

Thanks Jeff Potts‌, I am actually taking a look at your example to connect via CMIS to query alfresco

alfresco-developer-series/content/content-tutorial-cmis at master · jpotts/alfresco-developer-series · GitHub

Is there any tutorial you have that will give me some guidance to do a quick sample so that I can get comfortable with CMIS to query alfresco? I am hoping with CMIS I can run it in a standalone java class to query my alfresco instance for sites, folders , document content and metadata information.

Re: Download all documents within a site/folder along with metadata information

jpotts — Fri, 27 Jul 2018 18:57:09 GMT

The text that goes along with that code is:

Working With Custom Content Types in Alfresco | ECMArchitect | Alfresco Developer Tutorials

In addition, the Chemistry web site has many code examples:

Home - Apache Chemistry Samples