Zip files do not get unzipped

[adoshea]

Hi All,

I am having problems drag&drop a zip file (which contains folders and files) into a share/site/documentlibrary.  I can drag the zip file into the location, it get copied to the folder but does not unzip.  I have looked for information regarding the problem on the forum but don’t seem to be any that help me to resolve this issue.  I have seen reference relating to import of content and I was wondering if this would help but I am unable locate this option.

Thank you for your help.
Regards,

Tony.

2015-06-15 10:42:01,615 WARN  [org.alfresco.repo.content.metadata.AbstractMappingMetadataExtracter] [http-apr-8080-exec-3] Metadata extraction failed (turn on DEBUG for full error):
   Extracter: org.alfresco.repo.content.metadata.TikaAutoMetadataExtracter@7b9c4afa
   Content:   ContentAccessor[ contentUrl=store://2015/6/15/10/41/d2983c55-6c11-486e-9804-b9448ce1cd50.bin, mimetype=application/zip, size=1567878571, encoding=UTF-8, locale=en_US]
   Failure:   nullnull
2015-06-15 10:42:16,731 INFO  [org.alfresco.repo.management.subsystems.ChildApplicationContextFactory] [http-bio-8443-exec-6] Starting 'Transformers' subsystem, ID: [Transformers, default]
2015-06-15 10:42:17,304 INFO  [org.alfresco.repo.management.subsystems.ChildApplicationContextFactory] [http-bio-8443-exec-6] Startup of 'Transformers' subsystem, ID: [Transformers, default] complete

[borisstankov]

Hi Tony,

I'm using Alfresco for quite some time now, but I never come across such functionallity.
Would you please put some article where this is stated as a feature? (Everytime I put a zip in docLibrary - every time it's just another file uploaded in the docs.)


Regards!

[mrogers]

There is no functionality to automatically unzip an archive on upload.   Files uploaded remain as they are.  

You could unzip with an action.   Off the top of my head I don't know whether such an action already exists,  but the necessary code is already within alfresco.     And you could define a rule to run that action.

[borisstankov]

Yes, indeed. There is no such functionality.

The advice of mrogers is pritty good and I wasn't aware that this could be added to alfresco.

But here are some topic that I found after some digging:
https://addons.alfresco.com/addons/unzip-share-action-zip
And this is the git project of the above add-on:
https://github.com/atolcd/alfresco-unzip-action
However both links do not include the latest version of the Alfresco 5.0.x, just the old ones.

Hope this helps!

Cheers!