Download Multiple Documents

tpis001

Is it possible to have a process that downloads multiple documents associated with a particular instance of an object? Our scenario is like this:

Instance A has a 1 to many relationship with multiple documents, some PDF, some word, some png etc. Rather than having to download them all seperately, we'd like to be able to press a single button and get them all at the same time.

Thanks!

aware_support

This should be described in a video tutorial and also in the How To document and User Guide.

CalD

Did you work this out? I have looked in the pdfs but I can't see how to download multiple files/documents at once, I would like to be able to download multiple .txt files

aware_support

See this section in the How To Guide: "How to implement multiple file upload for documents"

Also go to the Video Tutorials page www.awareim.com/video-tutorials, go to the Documents section and watch the Document Files tutorial

CalD

I did see that section, but that covers uploading to, not downloading from aware?

aware_support

My apologies. No there is no way to download multiple documents at the same time.

ACDC

You could export the files to a folder, package them with Execute Program (Some Zip or PDF utility) and then IMPORT and view Packaged File for printing.

mrbdrm

ACDC wrote
You could export the files to a folder, package them with Execute Program (Some Zip or PDF utility) and then IMPORT and view Packaged File for printing.

thats how i do it.

kklosson

You can also merge to a single PDF file using a server-side utility. I use PDF Toolkit (PDFTK) but there are several options.

Jaymer

How about...
For each owned document, export it to a temp folder
ZIP the contents of that folder to another file
That zip file is a path that is reachable via URL
Open an HTML page, in a new tab, or new window or whatever works.
Use curly braces inside of that to do a replacement as you generate that file to point to the download location of the zip file

Somehow, and I’d have to research it, it would then act like when you go to download a file on the Internet and it brings up a new window, and then after a short delay it brings up a save as dialogbox. Like on sourceforge or github, it says “your download should start in 5 seconds, if not click here”

In summary, you click a button in aware, watch a little spinny thingy, a new browser window will open, and a Save As box will pop up for your download. Depending on your Browser, the download might automatically start and save to your downloads directory.