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?

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?

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: 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. -- Sergiu Dumitriu http://purl.org/net/sergiu/ _______________________________________________ users mailing list users(a)xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users _______________________________________________ users mailing list users(a)xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users

Sorry, I realize the way I worded it I wasn't very clear. I do want to do this within XWiki, not a separate application. Basically I'm curious if there is an existing XWiki app that would work for me that I didn't see perusing the extensions page, or some way within XWiki already that would accomplish this. So any suggestions along that lines would be most helpful. I know I can write my own if necessary, but I'd like to not have to re-invent the wheel if possible. Thanks, Lenny -----Original Message----- From: users-bounces(a)xwiki.org [mailto:users-bounces@xwiki.org] On Behalf Of Paul Libbrecht Sent: Monday, January 24, 2011 5:32 PM To: XWiki Users Subject: Re: [xwiki-users] Doing a File Exchange App Outside of XWiki? I doubt it's as intuitive as XWiki but jFM did a good job for us. http://jfm.dev.java.net/ paul Le 24 janv. 2011 à 23:10, Scardino, Leonard R Jr ERDC-ITL-MS Contractor a écrit : _______________________________________________ users mailing list users(a)xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users _______________________________________________ users mailing list users(a)xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users