Importing All the files from a folder at a time

Question

Hi....
Can any body tell me how to import set of files from a folder into IDM.
It is becoming very difficult to import the files one after other....
Waiting for Reply....
Thanks in advance..........

Answer 1

We used an ant script to build an XML file that will contain the files. The script is configured to use the folder structure of our CVS repository.
We'd checkout our XML module and then run the build script and import the resulting init file.
Code to the script is below -- caveat emptor. You'll need to change the folder structure to suit your own environment.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project basedir="." default="all" name="MyInit">
    <target name="init">
        <property location="." name="src.dir"/>
        <property location="." name="dest.dir"/>       
        <property name="project.name" value="${ant.project.name}"/>
        <property location="${dest.dir}/MyInit.xml" name="MyInit.output"/>
        <property name="source.configuration" value="${dest.dir}/configuration"/>       
        <property name="source.emailTemplate" value="${dest.dir}/emailTemplate"/>
        <property name="source.forms" value="${dest.dir}/forms"/>
        <property name="source.reports" value="${dest.dir}/reports"/>               
        <property name="source.resource" value="${dest.dir}/resource"/>          
        <property name="source.rules" value="${dest.dir}/rules"/>
        <property name="source.workflow" value="${dest.dir}/workflow"/>
        <!-- get the source path -->
        <path id="configuration.path">
            <fileset dir="${source.configuration}" >
               <include name="*.xml" />
            </fileset>
         </path>
         <property name="cp" refid="configuration.path" />
         <path id="emailTemplate.path">
            <fileset dir="${source.emailTemplate}" >
               <include name="*.xml" />
            </fileset>
         </path>
         <property name="ep" refid="emailTemplate.path" />
         <path id="forms.path">
            <fileset dir="${source.forms}" >
               <include name="*.xml" />
            </fileset>
         </path>
         <property name="fp" refid="forms.path" />
        <path id="reports.path">
            <fileset dir="${source.reports}" >
               <include name="*.xml" />
            </fileset>
         </path>
         <property name="rptp" refid="reports.path" />                 
        <path id="resource.path">
            <fileset dir="${source.resource}" >
               <include name="*.xml" />
            </fileset>
         </path>
         <property name="rep" refid="resource.path" />        
        <path id="rules.path">
            <fileset dir="${source.rules}" >
               <include name="*.xml" />
            </fileset>
         </path>
         <property name="rp" refid="rules.path" />
        <path id="workflow.path">
            <fileset dir="${source.workflow}" >
               <include name="*.xml" />
            </fileset>
         </path>
         <property name="wp" refid="workflow.path" />
        <!-- get the path prefix -->
         <path id="source.path">
            <pathelement location="${src.dir}" />
         </path>
         <property name="sp" refid="source.path" />       
    </target>
    <target depends="init"  name="win_init">
        <!-- change the path of xml files to windows path -->
        <property name="importfile.path" value="${sp}"/>                            
    </target>              
    <target depends="init" name="make">
    <!-- using XML character entity references to escape
    <  <
    >  >
    '  &apos;      -->    
        <echo file="${MyInit.output}" append="false"><?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<!DOCTYPE Waveset PUBLIC 'waveset.dtd' 'waveset.dtd'>
<Waveset>
${cp}
${ep}
${fp}
${rptp}
${rp}
${wp}
</Waveset>
        </echo>
     <!-- replace path prefix with ImportCommand -->
     <replace file="${MyInit.output}"
              token = "${sp}"
              value = "<ImportCommand name='include' file='${importfile.path}" />
     <!-- deal with file and path separators in an os independent way -->
     <replace file="${MyInit.output}"
              token = "${file.separator}"
              value = "/" />        
    <replace file="${MyInit.output}"
              token = "${path.separator}"
              value = "${line.separator}" />
    <replace file="${MyInit.output}"
              token = ".xml"
              value = ".xml'/>" />
    </target>
    <target depends="init,win_init,clean,make" description="Build everything." name="all"/>
    <target depends="init" description="Clean all build products." name="clean">
        <delete file="${MyInit.output}"/>
    </target>
</project>