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francisco_ribei
francisco_ribei
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September 3, 2018
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AEM Desktop APP Like Dropbox

  • September 3, 2018
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Hi,

The AEM Desktop APP when used, it mounts a network drive in the Windows Explorer.

Is there any option like a Dropbox App? Where instead of having the files in a network location they would be synched into the local folder? So, any operations in the file would be local?

Thanks,

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Best answer by smacdonald2008

Correct - Something similiar to this -- Scott's Digital Community: Creating a Custom Watched Folder Service for Adobe Experience Manager 6.3

AEM after all is a Java platform and you can build a Java solution.

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arunpatidar
Community Advisor
arunpatidarCommunity Advisor
Community Advisor
September 3, 2018

Hi

Please check below tools/utilities

Use Adobe Experience Manager Desktop App

How to use the VLT Tool

AEM Brackets Extension

Arun Patidar
smacdonald2008
smacdonald2008
Level 10
September 4, 2018

You can code a service to watch a local folder on the system and react to it.

francisco_ribei
francisco_ribeiAuthor
Level 6
September 4, 2018

Hi @Arun Patidar and smacdonald2008 thanks for the suggestion.

But let me give you some more context. I have a customer evaluating aem assets, and for his use case having a network driver doesn't work. So, he would like to know if there is any tool like Dropbox to have the files synched locally not as a shared drive.

As far, as I could understand, there is no tool for that right? It is something that we need to develop. Am I correct?

Thanks,

smacdonald2008
smacdonald2008
Level 10
September 4, 2018

Correct - you can either use Desktop App or develop your own solution - like a special watched folder and an AEM Scheduler Service.

francisco_ribei
francisco_ribeiAuthor
Level 6
September 4, 2018

Hi smacdonald2008 we have presented Desktop App but the customer didn't like it because of it mounts a shared drive and not synch the files locally.

So, if I understood it correctly, the only solution is to develop some custom application, right?

Thanks,

smacdonald2008
smacdonald2008Accepted solution
Level 10
September 4, 2018

Correct - Something similiar to this -- Scott's Digital Community: Creating a Custom Watched Folder Service for Adobe Experience Manager 6.3

AEM after all is a Java platform and you can build a Java solution.

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