Uploading files and folders

Background

Starting point

The procedure in this topic assumes Skribenta is installed and configured for normal operation, and:

You have logged into Skribenta.
You are assigned to one of the following user roles: content provider, technical writer or administrator.
You have selected the workspace you want to work in.

Your need

You need to import external files and folders to Skribenta. This can for example be image files or files created in other systems that have been converted to Flex DTD XML. If an uploaded folder contains files with relative links to files within the folder, the links are converted from relative to logical in Skribenta.

The possibility

It is possible to upload external files and folders to Skribenta. To upload a folder and its content, it has to be a compressed ZIP folder.

About this task

What you will learn

This instruction tells you how to upload files and folders to Skribenta.

The result

This is the Workspace view before uploading a folder:

This is the Workspace view after uploading a folder:

Overall steps

Browse to a folder in the Workspace view, select it and choose Upload to open a File Explorer window. In the File Explorer window, browse to files or folders on a drive on your computer and select to upload them.

Time

1-2 minutes

Procedure

1. Make sure that the step(s) in section "Starting point" (see section "Background" above) are performed.

2. On the Aspect toolbar, click Workspace.

The Workspace view opens.

3. In the Workspace view, browse to a folder where you want to upload one or several files.

4. Right-click the folder.

A pop-up list opens.

5. In the pop-up list, select the folder icon.

The Folder toolbar opens.

6. On the Folder toolbar, click More > Upload.

A File Explorer window opens.

7. In the File Explorer window, browse to your files located on your computer disk and select one or several files or compressed ZIP folders.

The following characters can not be used in a file name in Skribenta:

( ) \ / : * ? " < > | % # ;

8. Click Open.

The selected files or folders (with its content) are shown on the Upload tab with a message to the right of the file name:

New - if the file is new
Updated - if the file already exists, but its content is updated.

Only new and updated files can be uploaded.

9. Click Do upload.

A message from the browser opens.

10. Click OK.

The files or folders (with their content) are uploaded to the folder.

If you are uploading only one compressed ZIP folder and the ZIP folder contains the Skribenta generated file S_INF.xml, stored properties such as language codes, are automatically set on the uploaded files.

The file S_INF.xml is automatically generated by Skribenta when downloading a folder, see Downloading files and folders.

If an uploaded folder contains files with relative links to files within the folder, the links are converted from relative to logical.