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PloneFilesZip (1.1.0RC3)

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by maria last modified 2008-05-28
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Released on 2007-02-28 by Ingeniweb for Plone 2.1, Plone 2.5 under GPL - GNU General Public License available for All platforms.
Software development stage: stable
PloneFilesZip provides a tool that let users download all files from a folder (recursively) in a ZIP archive

About

Adds a document action to folders (and folderish contents) that enables to download all files and images from archetypes based contents available from that folder in a ZIP file.

Optionally, the user may get the DC metadata of the contents that provide files in XML-RDF format in the ZIP file.

Zip archives inner structure

All files in the Zip archives are recorded in the path

[rel_path "/"] content_id "/" field_id "/" file_name

All DC metadata in the Zip archives are recorded in the path

[rel_path "/"] content_id ".rdf"

With :

  • rel_path -- The relative path to the folderish that contains the content object.
  • content_id -- The id of a content that has a FileField or ImageField.
  • field_id -- The name of the FileField or ImageField.
  • file_name -- The original file name (as recorded in the field). An extension is provided if the original filename doesn't have one.

Requirements

  • Plone 2.0.5 or Plone 2.1 +
  • Archetypes 1.3.3 +
  • Any AT based content type with a FileField, ImageField, or AttachmentField. (ATContenTypes do the job)

Optional products

  • ATContentTypes 0.2 +, on Plone 2.0.x
  • AttachmentField 1.3 + and AttachmentField based content types like PloneExFile
  • LinguaPlone 0.7 +. If LinguaPlone is detected, the user downloads the files from contents in preferred language.

Warning

FileSystemStorage users must upgrade to a version later than 2005/10/20.

Configuring

After installing PloneZipFiles using the usual quick installer, you must open the 'portal_fileszip' tool in ZMI and follow the instructions from the "Overview" tab.

You may configure from the "PloneFilesZip Settings" control panel too.


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