Download documents folder hierarchy

Hi All,

I am trying to download docuemnts using CWS (java) to local drive. While downloading I want to create the full folder hierarchy of Content Server and download docuemnts in them.

Any suggestions/guidance is highly appreciated.

Thanks,

Ankur

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Hi Ankur,

I have done this in LAPI and I am pretty sure this would work if I changed the calls to CWS. However I cannot share that code because

it has customer info.However here are a few hints for you.

If you have OI/OE in your livelink you can OE the files.However the hierarchy is not given to you as the exporter follows a flat folder to basically address 1)long file names 2)Characters that file systems won't allow to happen.It handles that all very well.But if you are a smart XML programmer you can take that output and find the filename and the extension very easily. KInd of reworking an already output .But as bonus you will get the additional benefit of recursion and crawling by oscript .If you write you will have to write routines to crawl volume subtypes like projects,business workspaces etc....Just play with an OE export to see what I mean.
Likewise you can burn "Collections to Disk".Again you will get an index.htm(xml inside) and a hierarchy.Here you will get most of the structure intact but file names will be technical.

If you use CWS when you hit a folder make the folder and first level files in it,then recurse until all have been done.Recursion is not given to you by livelink. Sometimes I find it easier to use database functions to give me the path.

I have seen oracle give some Tree objects although I don't do a lot of GUI programming so wouldn't know if there are smart third party tools that would know how to show a structure.Mostly some kind of manifest(csv,xml) is preferred to address long filenames and filename limitations.

Hope some of that is worth a try.

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On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 6:20 AM, eLink Entry: Content Web Services Forum <otdncontentwebservices971forum@elinkkc.opentext.com> wrote:

Download documents folder hierarchy Posted byJain, AnkurOn 05/16/2016 07:19 AM

Hi All,I am trying to download docuemnts using CWS (java) to local drive. While downloading I want to create the full folder hierarchy of Content Server and download docuemnts in them.Any suggestions/guidance is highly appreciated.Thanks,Ankur
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Kyle_Swidrovich

Keep in mind that Content Server supports deep folder hierarchies, whereas the host system likely does not (max. character length in the path).

You will need to consider what to do in that scenario.

Kyle

Guy_Pomerleau

At CSA we did something similar using livereport and web report. We create a .bat file using the web report and that .bat file excute on schedule time. effectivaly we had some difficulties with utf-8 which

also with the path lenght, the DOS limit is 260char. To get over this we use robocopy to get around this issue as NTFS limit is 32 000char. If you have folder tree larger then 32 000char, I think you have other problems...