26 Jan
2011
26 Jan
'11
8:22 p.m.
Ok, so I've talked to my people, and a limit of 20 megabytes isn't going to
cut it. Looks like users will be uploading how-to video's and PowerPoints
that will exceed 20 megabytes.
I'm going to start researching alternatives, but I thought I'd ask this group
if you had any suggestions on how to proceed. It's looking to me like I'll
need another system, but I'm not certain what would be best. Any
suggestions?
Lenny
-----Original Message-----
From: users-bounces(a)xwiki.org [mailto:users-bounces@xwiki.org] On Behalf Of
Sergiu Dumitriu
Sent: Monday, January 24, 2011 6:08 PM
To: XWiki Users
Subject: Re: [xwiki-users] Doing a File Exchange App
On 01/24/2011 11:10 PM, Scardino, Leonard R Jr ERDC-ITL-MS Contractor wrote:
I'm being asked to do a File Exchange application
in XWiki. Basically
giving the users the ability to upload and download files for each
others use. My first thought was to simply use different pages for
collections and have people use the built in file attachment stuff.
However, I'm being told that isn't intuitive enough, so I'm looking to
do some sort of FTP like thing where paths can be created and files
uploaded to those paths to be later downloaded by others.
I guess my question is, does anyone know of an existing app that does
this, or am I going to have to create this myself?
You can use WebDAV to access the wiki.
http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/Features/WebDAV
You can do some custom UI on top of the basic attachment feature.
But note that the current attachment storage is not that memory efficient, so
it won't work well if the attachments are big. If you have attachments less
than 10-20 megabytes, that's OK, but bigger than that requires a different
approach. This will improve in the near future (3.0 / 3.1 hopefully).
Another alternative is to implement the file exchange using another system,
maybe even plain old FTP, and only provide an UI for it in XWiki. How exactly
this can be done depends on the service you want to use and what remote
access APIs it provides.
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Sergiu Dumitriu
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