When are you willing to release? The file-system-storage would avoid the 20 Mb limit I think but it'll only be in beta or alpha at next release.
paul Le 26 janv. 2011 à 20:22, Scardino, Leonard R Jr ERDC-ITL-MS Contractor a écrit : > Ok, so I've talked to my people, and a limit of 20 megabytes isn't going to > cut it. Looks like users will be uploading how-to video's and PowerPoints > that will exceed 20 megabytes. > > I'm going to start researching alternatives, but I thought I'd ask this group > if you had any suggestions on how to proceed. It's looking to me like I'll > need another system, but I'm not certain what would be best. Any > suggestions? > > Lenny > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: users-boun...@xwiki.org [mailto:users-boun...@xwiki.org] On Behalf Of > Sergiu Dumitriu > Sent: Monday, January 24, 2011 6:08 PM > To: XWiki Users > Subject: Re: [xwiki-users] Doing a File Exchange App > > 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 > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > users@xwiki.org > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users _______________________________________________ users mailing list users@xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
