AEM Linkshare downloads assets in individual folders instead of all in root folder directly

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Hi AllAEM Linkshare functionality when multiple assets within a folder is shared and downloaded, the assets are inside another sub-folder instead of all assets directly inside the parent/root folder. Is this a recent change in OOTB Link share functionality?Is there a configuration to download all assets in the same root folder instead of respective sub-folders?For example, DAM folder /content/dam/test has assets a.jpg & b.jpg, when folder test is shared via Share Link functionality to an author and downloads the folder, then extracts it to find folder with name a.jpg and b.jpg inside these folders, assets a.jpg and b.jpg exists.The expected result is directly inside extracted folder test, the assets a.jpg and b.jpg must be available. Is this possible?

SantoshSai · Accepted Answer

Hi @srikanthpo3,This is the expected out-of-the-box (OOTB) behavior of AEM Link Share functionality, especially in:AEM as a Cloud Service (AEMaaCS)AEM 6.5.x (SP13+ onwards, more noticeable in SP19+)When sharing a folder or selecting multiple assets using Link Share, the download ZIP is structured to wrap each asset inside a subfolder named after the asset.Adobe's official documentation outlines this behavior:"Assets view downloads the selected assets as a zip file. Assets view creates a sub-folder in the parent zip file, with the same name as that of the asset, for each asset that you select to download."Experience League | AdobeThis information is available in the Adobe Experience Manager documentation.To answer your question: There is No official OOTB configuration exists today to flatten the ZIP structure for Link Share downloads - neither in AEMaaCS nor AEM 6.5.As an alternative solution: May be you can override or extend the com.day.cq.dam.core.impl.servlet.AssetDownloadServlet or similar service used in link sharing and flatten the ZIP structure during runtime using a custom ZIP packager.Hope that helps!

ShivamKumar · Answer

Hi @srikanthpo3 ,This behavior is part of AEM’s out-of-the-box (OOTB) Link Share functionality, introduced in AEM as a Cloud Service (AEMaaCS) and in later versions of AEM 6.5+. When multiple assets are shared either by selecting them individually or by sharing a folder AEM preserves the folder hierarchy in the generated ZIP file. Each asset is placed inside its own subfolder named after the asset. This ensures structure and avoids naming conflicts during download.As of now, there is no OOTB configuration in AEM (including AEMaaCS) to flatten this structure when generating shared download links.

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