Enable Flash Based Upload

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dozyarmadillo

Hi there

How can I enable the Flash based uploader?

I have a custom Share UI config that includes the following:

<config evaluator="string-compare" condition="DocumentLibrary" replace="false">

<aspects>
<!– some aspect related config here –>
</aspects>

<types>
<!– some type related config here –>
</types>

<file-upload>
<adobe-flash-enabled>true</adobe-flash-enabled>
</file-upload>

<indicators>
<!– some indicator related config here –>
</indicators>

</config>
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I've modified the Context element of $TOMCAT/conf/context.xml as follows:

<Context useHttpOnly="false">
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<strong>Environment</strong>
<ul>
<li>RHEL 5.9</li>
<li>PostgreSQL 9.1</li>
<li>Oracle Java 1.6.0_22-b04</li>
<li>Tomcat 7.0.34</li>
<li>Alfresco 4.1.2 Enterprise</li>
</ul>

Drag/drop works fine when I use Firefox or Chrome. When I try using IE9 all that happens is that the browser renders the text file that I dragged from the desktop. The 'drop target' does not become active (using Chrome the target div border changes colour to blue). I've checked that Flash is working in IE, it's version 11.6.602.180 according to the Flash test page.

Although the site is secured with SSL I've tried accessing the site on the non-SSL port as well with the same result.

Any ideas?

Thanks

afaust

Hello,

what you are attempting in IE 9 is not the Flash Uploader, but the HTML 5 Drag & Drop File Upload. This won't work in IE 9 since Microsoft in their wisdom decided not to implement / provide the necessary API in that version of IE (and hasn't yet provided a patch that would add the missing feature).
The Flash Uploader can be accessed via the "Upload" button in the document library toolbar. Is that not working (if you have tried that as well)?

Regards
Axel