I need help. 😉
I just spent the evening uploading audio and pdf files one-by-one using the web client. This is because I could not find up-to-date, correct, and understandable instructions on how to get the CIFS connection to work. Onto one of the many advertised alternatives..
Since I do have access to my Jumpbox via FTP, I thought I read up on how to upload multiple files to the Alfresco repository using FTP while continuing to upload my files.
Two hours later searching wikis, the book that came out last year (which seems quite outdated by now), and this forum, and I still don't know where to put the files. Is Alfresco that hard to use? Is it that difficult to upload files and to tell people where they should put them? Presumably after uploading them into the Alfresco file system using FTP, one would have to manually add meta data. This probably warrants a paragraph or two of description somewhere as well.
Sorry, if this is all too easy for folks on this forum, but the reason one would try something like the Community Edition and a Jumpbox is so that one can convince the buyers in the organization that the system is a good choice. If I can't get simple things like uploading multiple files to the document system to work, then I know my organization will not want to touch the system. Given the documentation mess that one currently has to content with, I'm not so sure Alfresco the company is better off with the Community edition than without it (and I do know that this is an unsupported edition and paying customers have priority). :?
