where are data?

[_valerio_]

Hi everybody
I want to know where is the file (in Alfresco 3.0) in which is written the directory in which are stored the files that are inserted in Alfresco and how to modify this setting.
I have a folder in my filesystem in which users store their files (in pdf format); I want alfresco to get the files from that folder and to bring them into a specific space (on the basis of the name of the file). I don't want to insert the files directly in the space by users using CIFS because I don't want  all users to manage the content stored in the space.
Thanks!

[mrogers]

You set where alfresco will store its content by changing the "dir.root" property.   On 3.2 this is in alfresco-global.properties.     Please note that you should secure this location against anything reading the content other than alfresco and the backup software.

For the second part of your posting there's nothing out of the box that will do what you want.    However you could have a scheduled job that looks in a file system and uploads any content it reads there.   

Perhaps a better way to achieve what you want would be to allow upload to a "staging" space.    And then you can run some sort of approval filter over the content of staging and move the good stuff elsewhere and delete the junk.

[_valerio_]

Thanks mrogers for your reply
I just have some other questions

You set where alfresco will store its content by changing the "dir.root" property.On 3.2 this is in alfresco-global.properties.

I had Alfresco 3.0; there isn't the file alfresco-global.properties; I found the entry dir.root in tomcat/webapps/alfresco/WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/repository.properties. It si the correct file to configure or shall I  create and edit alfresco-global.properties?

For the second part of your posting there's nothing out of the box that will do what you want. However you could have a scheduled job that looks in a file system and uploads any content it reads there.

How can I put in practice this? I had to write some kind of code?