ONIXEDIT AIA needs to have access to a file repository which can be provided by an FTP server or Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3). When we install ONIXEDIT AIA, we configure it following your file repository preferences.


No matter if you are using FTP or S3, the folder/bucket structure will be same. Indeed, at the root level of the file repository, you will find 4 folders/buckets:


  • Input: The input folder will contain one "hot folder" for each catalog defined in your ONIXEDIT Server account. Those hot folders will be created automatically by the Windows Service of AIA. To be considered by ONIXEDIT AIA, a catalog must have import rules defined and the admin user (the owner of the ONIXEDIT Server account) must have Read, Write, Update and Delete access rights. Consult ONIXEDIT Server user manual for more information.
  • Default import: In this folder, you can upload two ONIXEDIT import scripts that will be used by default by ONIXEDIT AIA when a non ONIX metadata file will be uploaded to an Input folder having no specific import script in its corresponding Import folder. You can set one default import script for ONIX 2.1 catalogs and another for ONIX 3.0 catalogs. For instance, if an Excel file is uploaded to an input folder, ONIXEDIT AIA will check if there is a specific ONIXEDIT import script in the corresponding Import folder. If there is no ONIXEDIT import script, ONIXEDIT AIA will check in the default import folder and will then use the import script corresponding to the ONIX version of the catalog. Consult the ONIXEDIT User Manual to learn more about import scripts.
  • Import: Like for Input hot folders, ONIXEDIT AIA will automatically create an import folder for each of your catalogs. Each of these folders can be used to define a specific ONIXEDIT Import script to process non ONIX metadata files like CSV, tabulated, fixed length or Excel. If no specific import script is defined and a flat file is uploaded to a hot folder, ONIXEDIT AIA will use the import script defined in the Default Import folder.
  • Archive: This is where all metadata and asset files uploaded to your hot folders will be moved after having been processed.