Batch Import of Related Files

From KnowledgeTree Document Management Made Simple

Contents 1 Introduction/Purpose 2 Project Status 3 Dependencies 4 Impacting modules 5 Requirements 6 Usage scenarios 7 Questions 8 Implementation Questions 9 Related projects

Introduction/Purpose

Some applications generate groups of related files. KnowledgeTree currently only allows for one file to be checked in at a time. The user experience can be improved if 'master' files can be identified and related files are selected for import automatically.

Project Status

Specification Under Review

Dependencies

KnowledgeTree Add Document User Interface KnowledgeTree Checkin User Interface

Impacting modules

KnowledgeTree Add Document Interface KnowledgeTree Checkin User Interface

Requirements

The following modules may need to be defined:

• module to configure master files and their dependencies

Usage scenarios

A user may be using an application such as Frame Maker. A FrameMarker project consists of a set of templates templates, fonts and screen shots (.bmp images).

On checkin, the user would select the Frame Maker project file which could identify the related documents. The import process would allow for all the documents to be imported collectively.

Questions

• How would meta data be handled? Would meta data be associated with the 'master' file, or with each of the documents?

Implementation Questions

• Doing any client side processing is more difficult via a web browser. It is easy to say, master file is x.project and dependencies is x.bmp, x.tpl, etc. If the master file needs to be processed, some magic needs to be done.
• Possibly Ajax could be utilised - a 'master' file could be processed on the server side, dependencies figured out, and then the dependencies uploaded.

Related projects

Batch Export of Related Files