Method to write data(files) into a CD/DVD using OScript

Hello, I am using a custom module and as a new feature I want files(.pdf, .xml etc) to be burnt into CD/DVDs. Is there any method in Content Server which I can use to write the data in the CD/DVDs?

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eLink User

Livelink has a feature called collections . If you add a bunch of files to it and then you invoke the function burn to disk

I believe the command will ask if you want to burn cd / dvd etc. I would probably look in that ospace and borrow that code.

Say you really need to do this yourself right?

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Method to write data(files) into a CD/DVD using OScript Posted byGuha, ShivamOn 09/11/2016 05:17 AM

Hello, I am using a custom module and as a new feature I want files(.pdf, .xml etc) to be burnt into CD/DVDs. Is there any method in Content Server which I can use to write the data in the CD/DVDs?
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Paul de Jong

Hi Shivam,

Do you need to save the files into a CD/DVD on the user's computer or will this run on the server itself?
What kind of data volumes do you need to cater for? 10's documents or 100's or 1000's or ...
Do you only need the documents or also the folder structure, metadata, versions, audit details, ...
What is the target audience? administrators only or also end-users?

Paul

Shivam_Guha

Files will be burned in user's system, not in server.

They will use CD/DVD. Generally 80mb -2GB of space are there. So number of files will be around, 10-100s.

We just need the files. No metadata, audit details etc.

Both Admin and end-users will use this functionality.

Paul de Jong

Hi Shivam,

Thanks for the answers. Have you tried the out-of-the-box method by using collections?

This boils down to:
1. Perform a search and save the search results into a collection.
2. Open the collection, select the items you want and then use the standard "zip and download" to transfer the items as a zip from CS to your user's computer.
3. Open the zip file on the local computer

There are limits for the zip file (I believe the default maximum file size is 5 MB and maximum download volume is 5 MB). You may exceed them when downloading larger files and data sets. I hope you can get approvals to modify the server settings for the download&zip limits.

Paul

Greg_Griffiths

some clients use a CD Jukebox as a Read Only docstore for this purpose, you just set it up as another Storage Provider and then create the appropriate Storage Rules.