Web project to desktop

[ash]

Hi,

[using 4.2 community]
I am looking for any solution where i want to take updates from my company alfresco server(specially the updates in web projects, although i know AVM deprecation, but its required in my case) to my local desktop.
Is there any tool or service available for that or i need to construct a new one.
i have  tried Alfresco desktop sync but it only syncs sites data..
If i need to code it, please suggest some steps to achieve it.(i am new to alfresco and already running out of time..)

Please help

Thanks

[mrogers]

If your data is in AVM then deploy it to a filesystem deployment receiver.

[ash]

thanks mrogers for the reply,
actually my scenario is that we cannot modify the settings of the deployed web project in the alfresco server and deploying it to a filesystem deployment receiver would need me to do that[correct me if wrong].
So is there any other approach to do that ?
(may be something like we checkout and take updates from any svn)

[mrogers]

Sorry,  I don't understand what you are asking.   Could you try to reword your questions more clearly.

[ash]

Pardon my bad explanation..
I am trying to get all the modified assets within a web project from my company's alfresco server and then download them to my file system.
Due to network issues and very large size, whole web project cannot be downloaded every time, so i would only like to get the final updated/modified assets by all users of the web project, from the alfresco server. how can i achieve it..

[mrogers]

That's what the file system deployment receiver is for.  Deployment only pushes the deltas.    AVM is very much like SVN in regard to how it works with changes.

[ash]

Thanks mrogers,
that would be a solution but it would also require to configure my company's alfresco server for file system deployment receiver[plz correct if wrong] and that is what i am trying to avoid. Any other approach you may suggest (like Alfresco desktop sync or may be through APIs)

[mrogers]

I don't understand.  What's the aversion to configuring the alfresco server.    How would an 'api' be better.    If you really want then of course the Apis are available, however it's a lot work reinventing what's already there.

[ash]

Thanks mrogers,
totally agree with you that its timeconsuming, so is there any tool available that would do that work, or any alternative approach to file system deployment receiver..?

[mrogers]

Look, if you have content in an AVM web project then you should use the deployment server.   I still don't understand your aversion to configuring one.   Its an essential part of that solution and that's what it is there for.    There are other options with deployment, but an aversion to changing config is a showstopper. 
Perhaps I should ask why you have content in a Web Project if you are not using the AVM? 

You can knock up something that pulls content from the repo using the RMI or FTP if you really want to, but frankly its likely to be a waste of time.    

Or is your requirement really that you want to pull content rather than push?