Publish Many PDF's at once to Upfront 1

[jayfyve]

Hi,

I am just starting to learn Cognos Administration, and have been given the assignment to publish approximately 2500 PDF files to Upfront. I would prefer not to do this with the upload feature as I would probably get carpel tunnel from all the clicking. I am familiar with batch files and a little VBS (please be gentle with me).

I am toying with the idea of creating a virtual directory and linking to each file, but that may be a lot of unnecessary work also.

We have a directory structure on our Windows file server that the PDF's are organized under that I would like to maintain in Upfront.

There are approximately 100 PDF's a day to be added, and also there needs to be a cleanup procedure to remove PDF's that are too old. This can be done manually if necessary. But it should be automated.

Is there a GUI way to add a mass amount of PDF's (any file for that matter)? I am reading through the Manuals provided, but I assume someone here has had to do this at some point and I am looking for an easy answer.

I am just starting to play with the samples provided in the manuals. I can see that they are more geared toward adding one single link then a large amount of links with structure.

Thanks,
Jonathan

 

[GJParker]

If you already have the files in a structured directory format, why don't you just create this as a virtual directory with directory browsing allowed.

This would only then need 1 link in upfront to the root directory.



Gary Parker
MIS Data Analyst
Manchester, England

 

[jayfyve]

The reason why we don't want to do this is because we only want the users to have one login to Upfront. If we do it that way, they will require a second login to access the folder. Or is there a way to protect the folder without the user having to type in another username/password?