Sharepoint 2013 onpremise document management

Question

Hi,

We have the data coming from 3rd party into our Sharepoint 2013 environment using a library option incoming email settings.

So daily in the morning we used to get a zip folder, where as we extract and upload it again into a document library. We use this link as reference in content editor webpart.

So, is there a way that unzips the file coming using incoming email configuration, so that file in the respective zip folder gets extracted and added in a different library or the same library?

or If someone can suggest me a way to get file into Sharepoint unlike incoming email settings option? 3rd party tool puts the file into a location and Sharepoint picks it up and uploads into a document library ?

Regards,
Susmitha.

Answer 1

Hi @susmitha
Out-of-the-box this is not possible on SharePoint 2013.

As to 3rd party, it is not supported in Q&A forum, thans for your understanding.

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Answer 2

you can implement ItemAdded event receiver which will check incoming files and unzip them automatically e.g. like shown here: Programmatically add extracted zip file into document library

public override void ItemAdded(SPItemEventProperties properties)
        {
            ZipFile zf = null;
            try
            {
                SPWeb oWeb= properties.OpenWeb();                       
            oWeb.AllowUnsafeUpdates = true;
                        SPList objlist = oWeb.Lists[properties.ListTitle];
                        SPListItem currentListItem = properties.ListItem;
                        SPFile sourceFile = properties.ListItem.File;
                        string tempdir = "";

                        using (Stream stream = sourceFile.OpenBinaryStream())
                        {
                            zf = new ZipFile(stream);
                            foreach (ZipEntry zipEntry in zf)
                            {
                                if (!zipEntry.IsFile)
                                {
                                    string foldername = zipEntry.Name;
                                    tempdir = CreateFolder(oWeb, foldername);
                                    continue;                                 // Ignore directories
                                }
                                else
                                {
                                    String entryFileName = zipEntry.Name;
                                    entryFileName = Path.GetFileName(entryFileName);
                                    SPDocumentLibrary destLib = (SPDocumentLibrary)properties.ListItem.Web.Lists["test"];
                                    string foldrptath = tempdir;
                                    SPFolder folder =oWeb.Getfolder[tempdir];
                                    SPFile spfile = folder.Files.Add(entryFileName, stream, true);
                                }
                            }
                            stream.Close();
                        }
                        oWeb.AllowUnsafeUpdates = false;

            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {
            }
            finally
            {
                if (zf != null)
                {
                    zf.IsStreamOwner = true; 
                    zf.Close();

                }
            }
        }

        private static string CreateFolder(SPWeb MyWeb, string txtFolder)
        {

            SPDocumentLibrary docLibrary = (SPDocumentLibrary)MyWeb.Lists["test"];

            SPFolderCollection MyFolders = MyWeb.Folders;

            String Dirname = docLibrary + "/" + txtFolder;

            MyFolders.Add(Dirname);

            docLibrary.Update();

            return (Dirname);
        }

(consider using this code as idea sample. I didn't try it by myself - but it is good to start with).