Upload a file to a specific folder

Dushan — Tue, 08 Oct 2019 09:34:07 GMT

Hi, i'm using alfresco 5.2 and i'm using rest api. I recently developed my software to upload a file to admin file manager. What i want to do right now is, upload my file to a specific folder in admin.

Imagine i have a folder named "reports" and my files should upload to "reports" folder.

File upload as "filedata" and i tried to provide "destination" as "sample" and it wont upload my file to "sample" folder. It just upload to the root of the folder. I provided my folder nodeRef as folder nodeRef. And then i tried to upload back again using "uploaddirectory" and for this i provided "sample" which is my folder name. But nothing worked.

What should i do in my case ?

Re: Upload a file to a specific folder

abhinavmishra14 — Wed, 09 Oct 2019 14:24:06 GMT

"destination" should be the nodeRef of the target folder.

If you are uploading to a site, then siteId and container id can be provided. Else you can pass nodeRef of the existing folder using destination parameter.

You can use "uploaddirectory" in combination with either destination or siteid and containerid (if uploading to a site). where upload directory is a subfolder

Here is the detailed description for upload api:

POST /alfresco/service/api/upload

HTML form data

filedata, (mandatory) HTML type file
You must specify one of:
- destination (the folder NodeRef where the node will be created)
- updateNodeRef (the NodeRef of an existing node that will be updated)
- siteid and containerid (the Site name and the container in that site where the document will be created)
uploaddirectory - name of the folder (either in the site container or the destination) where the document will be uploaded. This folder must already exist
description - Description for a version update (versionDescription)
contenttype - The content type that this document should be specialised to
majorversion
overwrite
thumbnails

Return content

nodeRef

Return status: STATUS_OK (200)

The web script description document specifies the following options:

Value	Description
`json`	The default response format
`user`	The authentication access
`required`	The transaction level
`any`	The format style

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