[Zope] Re: Bulk uploads

[Maik Jablonski]

cp.hennessy at openapp.biz wrote:
>>>1.  User has a folder on his Linux/Windows file system with one or more
>>>content types (images, OO docs,Word docs, etc.)
>>>
>>>2.  User does a drag and drop to a WebDAV folder which appears to the
>>>client to be just another folder on the disk.
>>>
>>>3.  The webDav server automatically determines the content type and
>>>creates it in the selected target folder using the appropriate factory
>>>when it receives the file, and uses the "file" factory if it can't
>>>automatically determine the file type...
>>
>>Use Webdrive (http://www.webdrive.com/) to connect your Zope to the
>>Desktop of the users via Webdav and you'll be happy...
> 
> 
> There are two problems with this :
> 1) it only works on Windows;

For Linux exists many solutions... KDE delivers this out of the box, 
other projects can use WebDavFS (or something called similar) to mount a 
Webdav-Folder to the filesystem.

-mj