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Hello,

I am working on a client site and they have an existing CMS with over 500 files in folders and subfolders for board documents.

I was wondering if it is at all possible to set up the Sections/Categories and folders with Phoca and then somehow upload the PDF files to the server via FTP? This would save us the tedious job of having to re-input each file one by one.

Also, is it possible t have sub folders? For example, my client has many years worth of minutes and other documents so they need to be grouped like this

Board files / Board of Directors / Agendas-Minutes-Meeting-Materials / 2009 / document
Board files / Board of Directors / Agendas-Minutes-Meeting-Materials / 2010 / document\

etc... there are quite a number of sub folders and years within the main Board of Directors folder and then there are other Sections such as Community that again have many sub folders and then year sub folders.

Hopefully that makes sense!

Is something like this possible?

Thanks,
Michelle

Hi,

subfolders - you can have many subfolders you want, Phoca Download has independent database and filesystem layer, it means, there is no depency between items and categories to files and folders.

But if you mean subcategories, in Phoca Download 1.x there is no such option, in Phoca Download 2.x the sections were removed (like in Joomla! 1.6) and changed to categories - subcategories.

For now there is no option to upload the files automatically. The multiple add function was planned (like in Phoca Gallery) but still not found time

Jan

Hi Jan,

Thanks for the answer... I went with JDownload as they had the ability for me to set up the folder structure in Joomla and then FTP all the files/folders and I get as many sub folders as I need.

Thanks!