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