Uploading files from your computer to your user folder
You can upload files from your computer to your user folder on the UNICOM Intelligence Interviewer - Server Admin server. This allows you to use files such as templates or image files that have been created outside of UNICOM Intelligence Interviewer - Server Admin.
You can upload up to ten files at a time. The maximum length of the file name is 128 characters; the maximum length of the full pathname is 260 characters. (This is a restriction of the operating system.) If your filename or pathnames are longer than this, you must rename them before uploading.
The Files activity uploads files in two stages: First, it makes a copy of each file in a temporary folder. Each file is given a unique temporary name so two people uploading files with the same name do not overwrite each other's files. Then, it copies each file into the project's folder in your user folder, renaming the file as it does so, and then deletes the temporary file. (The name of the temporary folder is defined in the registry in the DimensionNetUploadFolder key and defaults to c:\InetPub\wwwroot\SPSSMR\Temp.)
Files makes the following checks as it copies files into your user folder:
Filenames
All files belonging to a project must have a name whose root matches the project ID; that is, they must be called ProjectID.xxx. Activities find the files they need to use by taking the project's ID and looking for files whose root matches that name. When creating files, activities name them by using the project ID with an appropriate extension. The exceptions are template files, which are often shared between many projects, and sample files.
When you upload a file that has an extension that UNICOM Intelligence Interviewer - Server Admin recognizes as a project file extension, and its name does not match the ID of the current project, Files asks you whether you want it to rename the file. You should normally answer Yes.
Existing files
If a file already exists in your user folder, Files asks whether to overwrite it with the uploaded file. If you answer No, the file is not uploaded.
.mdd files
The procedure for existing files applies, but Files does not upload the file if its format is invalid or if it was created with a later version of UNICOM Intelligence that you are using now. (Technically, the test is whether the file’s version number is greater than the version number of the MDMLib component that is installed on your computer.)
Empty files
Files issues a warning and ignores the file.
Zipped files
Files extracts the contents of the zipped file so that the component files are available separately in your user folder (the exception is if the zipped file contains another zipped file; in this case, the second zipped file is not unzipped). All checks for non-zipped files are carried out on the individual files in a zipped file so, for example, if the zipped file contains an .mdd file that already exists in your user folder, you are asked whether to overwrite the existing file or merge the uploaded file into the existing file.
If the zipped file contains a folder structure, Files creates new subfolders within the project folder to match it. This ensures that the relationships between the files in the zipped file are maintained when the files are uploaded.
You can create subfolders in the project folder and upload files into subfolders. You might want to do this if you want to keep template files and stylesheets separate from the other project files, or if you have language-specific files that you want to store separately.
Notes
▪The Files activity does not support pathnames or filenames containing Japanese characters. If you want to upload a file whose name contains Japanese characters, rename it.
▪If you are using Internet Explorer with a pop-up blocker installed and you are uploading files from different computers using the IP addresses of those computers, you must turn off the pop-up blocker if you want to upload zipped files.
To upload files into your user folder
1 Go to the subfolder into which you want to upload files, and then click Files > Actions > Upload.
The Upload Files dialog opens.
2 Click Browse. Select the file you want to upload, and then click Open.
The filename is added to the Files to Upload list. If you choose a file whose name already exists in the Files to Upload list (even if the file is from a different location), an error message is displayed and your selection is ignored.
3 Repeat these steps to select more files. You can select a maximum of ten files.
To remove a file from the upload list, click the red cancel icon next to the filename.
4 Click Upload.
You can cancel the upload by clicking Cancel. This stops copying files and deletes any that have already been copied into the Temp folder.
When all files have been uploaded, you return to the main screen. The uploaded files tagged are as Private.
To create a subfolder to upload into
1 Click Files > Actions Upload.
The Upload Files dialog opens.
2 Click Browse.
3 Click the Create New Folder icon, and then type a folder name.
4 Click Open to create the subfolder.
5 Click Cancel to close the Choose file dialog, and then click Cancel to close the Upload Files dialog.
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