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The uploads plugin¶
The lino_xl.lib.uploads plugin adds functionality for uploading files to
the server and managing them. This includes the upload action as such, but also
processing the uploaded files, such as linking them to other database content or
monitoring their validity.
Overview¶
The plugin differentiate between web uploads and library uploads. They differ by the way they arrived to the server. Web uploads were uploaded by some end user via the web interface, while library uploads have arrived to the server by some other means. Web uploads are stored below the uploads folder while library uploads are stored below the folder given by their library volume.
A third type of upload files are fileless uploads. These are upload files without an actual file. A fileless upload represents the fact that some external document exists, but just hasn’t been uploaded. There are people who are interested in this kind of fact ;-)
All upload entries are stored in a single database table
called Upload.
An upload file is usually linked or associated to another database object, called its controller, which represents its “reason of being”.
The site manager can configure library volumes via the menu command . Lino watches the files in the folder tree of a library volume and can automatically create an upload file for every new file.
Concepts¶
- upload entry¶
A database record that represents an independent media file that has been uploaded to the Lino site either via the web interface or as a library file.
- upload file¶
An upload entry that represents a file.
- uploads folder¶
The folder below which all uploaded files are being stored on the server.
- upload type¶
The type of an upload file.
- upload area¶
A group of upload types that are being displayed in a given upload panel.
Upload areas are defined by the application developer or the server administrator. As an end user you can just assign them to your upload types in order to classify them.
- library volume¶
A folder in the file system where library uploads are stored.