Zip Archive

LarryL

The mediabin client interface gives users the ability to select multiple assets and download them as one ZIP file. Is there a way to use this functionality with assets that reside on the server only (not mediabin)?

Scenario:
- We have an application that generates multi-page PDFs from assets stored in Mediabin.
- These PDF files are stored temporarily on our server, then deleted (weekly, monthly...). There is no need for us to store these new PDF files in Mediabin since we can regenerate them anytime.
- We want to take 1-n number of multi-page PDFs and push them to a user in 1 ZIP file. (SIT files for MAC users)

Is there a way to do this using the mediabin tools, without injesting this new asset(s) into mediabin? Can this be accomplished with the .NET API or Mediabin Task?

Thanks for your help!

Migrateduser

The "Package the assets as a zip file" functionality is not really an internal MediaBin Server functionality.

In the Web Client, it is obtained by using the MBUtils.Archive class, which contains the following Sub:

Compress arrFiles, strArchiveFullName, intArchiveType

with
arrFiles being an array of file paths (strings),
strArchiveFullName being the path to the result archive file, and
intArchiveType being one of these values:

const MBArchiveType_SIT = 0
const MBArchiveType_SIT5 = 1
const MBArchiveType_ZIP = 2
const MBArchiveType_TAR = 3
const MBArchiveType_GZIP = 4
const MBArchiveType_BZIP2 = 5
const MBArchiveType_RAR = 6
const MBArchiveType_PF = 7
const MBArchiveType_LHA = 8
const MBArchiveType_HA = 9
const MBArchiveType_CPT = 10
const MBArchiveType_ARJ = 11
const MBArchiveType_ARC = 12

Hope this helps...