Import-All - Import multiple files into IDM

• Are you a developer in Xpress?
• Do you occassionally need to import IDM exchange files through the web administrative interface into the waveset repository?
• Do you find single-file upload monotonous, if there are multiple files to be imported?
• Ever wished there was a way to upload and import multiple xml files at once into the repository?

If you answer "yes" to any of the above questions, you would certainly find Import-All fun to work with.

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• You get the ability to import any number of xml files with only a few clicks
• Import-All uses standard IDM import code available through the public API's provided within the IDM package.
• An easy interface provides a prompt color-coded feedback after each file-import
• Import errors (due to xml grammar invalidations) are highlighted in red
• You can cancel file-import at any time
• Above all, it's free to download and use!
• The setup is simple! Check out the instructions below.

• Why Flash?
  Traditionally, the HTML form element <input type="file"> has been able to provide the functionality of browsing and selecting only one file at a time. All browsers support this behavior, which is the reason why IDM offers it too. We are left with 2 options then:
  1. A Java applet component that allows browsing the filesystem. The limitation is that Java applets need to be signed in order to do so which involves modifying the web.xml for the IDM application.. too much intrusive work!
  2. A Flex component that allows browsing and selecting multiple files. The setup is simple, interface is good and it is popular, thus increasing the chances of most of us already having the flash plugin installed into our browsers.
• The one technical hiccup experienced while creating this component was the sharing of session between the IDM admin pages and the flex component at runtime. This challenge has been overcome by passing the session token in the URL (read here for more info).
• Note: The file configure/fileimport.jsp is not supplied as part of the download here to avoid any license-agreement and code-infringement issues with Sun Microsystems. All jsp code supplied with this utility is developed completely using the public API's provided in the Sun IDM package.