Drag-n-drop Outlook emails in Share 4.2.f

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dhartford

Hi all,
Does anyone have experience as to why alfresco 4.2.f does not allow drag-n-drop from an outlook email (msg file - nothing to do with preview, just the simple manual drag-n-drop)?

This used to work in 4.2.c, but 4.2.f this no longer functions.

-D

dhartford

I tested an old version of 4.2.c, and 4.2.c with Record Management (if that provided the option), but no. My testing may have been on file *.msg rather than dragging directly out of Outlook.

Additional technical references also leaning towards this not being an option (at least without flash or activex plugin):

You *are* able to drag and drop an outlook message to your desktop, to a windows share, and to an Alfresco CIFS share (however, no metadata/indexes can be added using this technique).

note: Once you have drag-and-dropped an outlook message to an actual file (desktop or share), *then* you can drag it into Alfresco Share.

HTML5 outlook references…

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19924528/drag-drop-directly-from-outlook-in-web-app

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21950543/html-5-drag-and-drop-email-from-outlook

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17184369/upload-fails-when-user-drags-and-drops-attachement-from-email-client/17197224#17197224