Mirroring folder structure / mass upload - beginner user question

[csmelinda]

Dear All,

I have to use Livelink Explorer during my work to store all documents in a remotely organized repository.
The navigation (and the upload, but mostly the navigation between dozens or hundreds of different folders) is extremely slowing down the upload process to me, especially that I am used to easy navigation (collapsing and expanding folder structure without loading content) in Windows Explorer.

We use to have a kind of shadow file before these are all uploaded.

Could anyone suggest a method to copy the server's folder structure (or if I just have this in an Excel report maybe) and proceed with a mass upload from my local drive?

I am really not an IT-literate so I might need some elementary explanation... Thanks a lot anyway if you have an idea.

Kind regards,

Melinda

 

[appnair]

if the content is between two systems as your livelink administartion if they have Object Exporter and Object Importer.If so
if they run this file like this
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<export>
<node>
<location>Enterprise:OEFolderx</location>
<docstorage>F:\csdata\opentext\oe\destination</docstorage>
</node>
</export>

everything under the folderas in my example will be dumped as a OI instruction file+content.You just have to take that and run it as a Object Importer file.Process is Object Export on one system to Object import on another system.Some tweaks such as users,category attributes,classification may have to be done.

if the content is in a drive then you can use the OI sysntax above to do the bulk loading.OI product was developed to get companies content from file shares into livelink.Somewhere down the line Object Exporter came along as well.

Usual programming skills of Excel VBA or VB script is all that is needed to create OI files.an eample OI file that will create a document in that location.
<import>

<node action="create" type="Document">
<file><![CDATA[F:\csdata\opentext\oe\destination\aaa_20120918142005\2012091814200527800\0000000001]]></file>
<location><![CDATA[Enterprise:OEFolderx]]></location>
<mime><![CDATA[text/xml]]></mime>
<modified><![CDATA[20120918132547]]></modified>
<title><![CDATA[OE_test.xml]]></title>
</node>

</import>

There are products in the market that can take an excel representation as in Syntergy bulk loader but xml or csv loading strucrures in livelink with or without data
is not hard as it may seem




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