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[Morten Olav Hansen <morten@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Elmarie

Just tried this, and in my case they are ending up in
$DHIS2_HOME/documents, what is your home set to? are you sure the
application can access that folder?

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Morten Olav Hansen
Senior Engineer, DHIS 2
University of Oslo
http://www.dhis2.org

On Wed, Jul 6, 2016 at 11:23 PM, Elmarie Claasen <elmarie@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
>
>
> From what I am told whatever resources you load into DHIS under Reports >
> Resources and whether you add them to a dashboard those are stored in a
> subfolder in the war file folder on the server. When the war is updated all
> those files are destroyed and thus you don’t have those copies anymore. Any
> reason why those resources are stored in the war file folder and not in the
> same location as uploaded files on the dhis2_home or even better in the
> database itself?
>
>
>
> The problem is that you add those documents to a dashboard and if you
> update the war file they no longer available… best not to have an option to
> share resources then if you need to reload them every time…
>
>
>
> I do understand that DHIS2 has the ability to store files but the use in
> this case is for example to add manuals or SOPS or guidelines to the system
> so the file storage is not ideal rather chose to use resources since it is
> available in DHIS2. We also using it to load user access forms which may
> not be intended usage but is useful and the reality is that every time the
> war is updated everything that is uploaded is destroyed – quite a shock…
>
>
>
> I must also say that the documentation does not provide clear guideline on
> how this feature should be used and a warning that anything you load there
> is stored in the war file?
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>
> Regards,
>
>
>
> *Elmarie Claasen*
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