Content Dump

Has anyone been able to get all of their content from TeamSite to dump out to their local box w/o going through the Y:? I would like to do this on a per branch basis. Any suggestions or tools that anyone is using to accomplish this?

Thanks,
Jum

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nipper

Why are you hesitant to go through the Y: drive ? Unless something is seriously corrupted that is by far the best way to get to your data.

Many moons ago, I had a corrupted repository, and no backups. (I was brought in after the fact). I walked through the iw-store, found files, identified them and built it into a directory structure.

It was a very significant amount of work & one I do not suggest unless a gun is pointed to your head (and you are paid by the hour) :-)

Andy

Jumjum

LOL Nipper,
We want the users to be able to get the lastest and greatest content from TeamSite. Each user does not have either own workarea. Initially we want a dump of a branch to go onto the users box and restrict what access they have to the content. The content is sensitive and not all users will be able to have access to it. Basically, we want to dump the content on the users box and allow them to interact in a workarea that is governed by one person. Hence the TS part. But they want to be able to systematically dump the content per branch area for any user coming onto the system. I was hoping anyone has had success with configuring or performing this type of operation. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you again,
Jum

nipper

Open Deploy will do what you want, though you have to have a receiver ofr each. Set up a deployment from Staging and restrict the files deployed per user.

Not a great solution, but better.

Andy

Adam Stoller

I'm not sure it ideally fits your needs - but in 5.5.2 there's a Download Files option (or something like that - not looking at TeamSite right now) that effectivly downloads all the selected files via LaunchPad without trying to launch an editior for each of them.

Currently this stores all the files within the [default] c:\IW_TMP (or IW_TEMP?) directory structure.

You might want to play around with this a bit and see if you can manage to make this reasonably useful (perhaps creating mapped drives that point further into the directory structure so that the users don't have to do all the navigating?)

The nice thing about doing this is that they can then use LaunchPad to upload their modified files back into the workarea from whence they came.

--fish
(Interwoven Senior Technical Consultant)

Jumjum

Gohti,
The download option will not work for us because it only works for selected files. I want to be able to dump directories and its files together. We don't want the user to build the structure. I suppose what Andy had written might be the best solution or some other custom solution.

Thanks,
jum

Adam Stoller

I hadn't tried it - but I was assuming (perhaps wrongly so) that if you selected a directory and invoked the Download Files menu that it would recursively download all files and directories contained within that selected directory. And that you *might* even be able to issue the command at the branch level by selecting the workarea to download (this is less likely, but still a possibility).

I suppose a lot depends on (a) whether the command works the way I think it does and (b) what the top-level of your workarea looks like. Again, speaking theoretically at this point, you should be able to do a Select All followed by Download Files

OpenDeploy is great - if you are willing to purchase Receivers for all yoru client machines, but then you also have to invest time in developing a routine for re-syncrhonizing the local desktop back into the workarea when you're done.

Using any other type of protocol that doesn't use LaunchPad (as Download Files does) is also likely to require a bit of time and effort in order to get the two-way syncrhonization functioning in a desired manner.

--fish
(Interwoven Senior Technical Consultant)