Enable the activities posting for WebDAV

[davorr]

Hello

We run Alfresco Community v4.0.0

In the dashlet "Site Activities" (Alfresco Share, Alfresco iPad etc) are beeing published only the file transfers via browser (Alfresco Share).
We would like to see the WebDAV or FTP transfers as well.

We have found that there is a possibility to configure this:
https://issues.alfresco.com/jira/browse/ALF-13441

However we would need JMX to do that. And JMX ist an enterprise only feature (not available for the community editition).
http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/JMX

Is there some other way to turn on the webdav visibility in the activities?

Thanks
Davor

[davorr]

OK, we now have just found out, that is not possible by design:
"Only operations initialised by the Share UI support posting activities."
https://issues.alfresco.com/jira/browse/ALF-5669?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanel...
https://forums.alfresco.com/en/viewtopic.php?f=47&t=43452

What a pitty! 
Though, from the user experience point of view, this is a serious restriction.
Why not to track FTP,WebDab, CMIS activities?

[davorr]

But then again, now we've found this:

"Content that you add to Alfresco this way is versioned and counted against your quota. Changes you make to content (uploads, edits, and deletions) appear in activity feeds."
http://docs.alfresco.com/cloud/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.alfresco.cloud.doc%2Ftasks%2Fwebdav-setup-clou...

So, according to this it should appear in the activities!
But how???

[mward]

This functionality is in HEAD, and can be enabled by setting the following property (e.g. alfresco-global.properties):

system.webdav.activities.enabled=true
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The issue is detailed here:

https://issues.alfresco.com/jira/browse/ALF-13441

[davorr]

tnx! we implemented it as followed:

# WebDAV initialization properties
system.webdav.servlet.enabled=true
system.webdav.storeName=${protocols.storeName}
system.webdav.rootPath=${protocols.rootPath}
system.webdav.activities.enabled=false (true)‍‍‍‍‍

then i uploaded some files via webdav.
but nothing happens in the alfresco share dashlet "activities".
It doesn't show the uploaded file…

[davorr]

Good news: the webdav changes are visibile now in the dashlet "Recently Modified Documents".
So, we are going to use this one to track changes.
The dashlet "Site Activities" still doesn't show any webdav traffic…

btw. this congif modification worked out only on our debian installation. on ubuntu it didn't work out (although the same config.)

tnx again for your help!