WebDav v Adobe Drive

[racheld_76]

Hi Adobe Community,

Rookie question: Can someone tell me if there would be an issue accessing AEM Assets via Adobe Drive to upload a large number of files or is it absolutely necessary to go through WebDav? Both show me the file directory through my finder...

Thanks!
Rachel

[smacdonald2008 · Accepted solution]

Its not necessary to only use WebDav to upload assets to the DAM. In fact - you can write your own solution to do so.

See this community article - it works well. It uses the AEM AssetManager API:

https://helpx.adobe.com/experience-manager/using/multiple-digital-assets.html

So if you have 1000s of digital assets - you do not want to upload them manually. You can automate the process as talked about in this article. 

[racheld_76]

Ha! I had come across this months ago and completely forgot about it. Thanks so much for pointing me in the right direction.

Have a great day!

[racheld_76]

Was just reviewing and realized this is only been tested on 5.5 and 5.6. We are currently on 6.0. 

Do you know of any successful implementations using 6.0?

Thanks!

[smacdonald2008]

It should - i will test it on AEM 6(its a custom sling servlet that really makes it work). Also - we are starting to package up the code that our articles use into downloadable packages that can be downloaded from the article.

For example - for the Sling Servet one - we have this package:

[img]artilcepack.png[/img] 

See: https://helpx.adobe.com/experience-manager/using/custom-sling-servlets.html

We will test this one on AEM 6 and package it up.

[racheld_76]

This is super helpful and really appreciated! 

[smacdonald2008]

YEs - on AEM 6 - it works like a charm. 

I uploaded these Lake pics as a batch operation to /content/dam/travel -- as shown here:

[img]client2.png[/img]

I will attach the Sling Servlet and the client to the article. 

[racheld_76]

High-five!! Thanks again for your help.

[smacdonald2008]

You will soon notice that the code is attached to the article. It was just deployed. 

[smacdonald2008]

Also - what is nice about using AssetManager API is you get renditions of the Asset - as shown here:

[img]lakes.png[/img]

[racheld_76]

Perfection! :)