Virto Html5 Bulk File Upload for Microsoft SharePoint User and Installation Guide SP 2013 — version 1.6.35 SP 2016 — version 1.6.35 SP 2019 — version 1.6.17 2 Table of Contents Contents Table of Contents ............................................................................................................................................................. 2 Features List ..................................................................................................................................................................... 3 System/Developer Requirements ....................................................................................................................................... 3 Installation and Activation .................................................................................................................................................. 4 Expected Outage ........................................................................................................................................................... 4 Installing Virto Html5 Bulk File Upload ................................................................................................................................. 4 SPFx Web Part Installation .................................................................................................................................................. 7 License Activation .............................................................................................................................................................. 7 Virto Html5 Bulk File Upload Settings............................................................................................................................... 14 Using Virto Html5 Bulk File Upload .................................................................................................................................. 18 Adding Files for Upload ...................................................................................................................................................................................................... 19 Files Properties .................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 19 Changing Destination Folder ............................................................................................................................................................................................... 21 Overwriting Files ............................................................................................................................................................................................................... 21 Finish Uploading ................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 21 Working with Virto HTML5 Bulk Files Upload as a feature ...................................................................................................... 22 Version Release History .................................................................................................................................................. 25 Copyright © 2020 All rights reserved. www.virtosoftware.com 3 Virto Html5 Bulk File Upload for Microsoft SharePoint Features List Feature Version Uploading bulk files to SharePoint document libraries 1.0 Enabling custom meta data of files 1.0 Uploading files with drag and drop 1.0 Enabling/disabling an ability to overwrite existed files while uploading 1.0 Files uploading progress bar 1.0 Restricting the type of files users are able to select 1.0 Ability to set maximum file size to be uploaded 1.0 Unlimited amount of content types and fields in the list is supported 1.0 Cross browser support (Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera) 1.0 Predefined values from query string added 1.2.0 Predefined fields values added 1.2.0 Ability to upload items as list attachments 1.6.0 Can be used as SPFx web part on SharePoint 2019 modern sites 1.6.17 System/Developer Requirements SharePoint Release: 2016, 2016 Operation system: 64-bit edition of Windows Server 2012 R2 Service Pack 1 AND 64-bit edition of Microsoft SQL Server 2014 Service Pack 1 (SP1) Server: SharePoint Server 2016/2019, Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5.2 Browser: Microsoft Internet Explorer 10 or higher, Google Chrome, Firefox, Mozilla SharePoint Release 2013: - Microsoft Windows SharePoint Foundation 2013 or Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2013; - Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5. SharePoint Release 2010: - Microsoft Windows SharePoint Foundation 2010 or Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2010; - Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5; - Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Opera, Google Chrome. Note: This product is not compatible with SPS 2003 and WSS v2. Copyright © 2020 All rights reserved. www.virtosoftware.com 4 Installation and Activation This section describes how to install, upgrade, uninstall, or contact Support for the Virto Html5 Bulk File Upload. Installation is absolutely the same for SharePoint 2010, 2013, 2016, and 2019 versions. Expected Outage The expected outage time is from 2 minutes to several hours depending on your hardware and number of SharePoint sites. Though we recommend all Virto users to upgrade on a weekend. Installing Virto Html5 Bulk File Upload Before you begin, you need to make sure you have access to the server and your account must have the appropriate administrative privileges to install applications. Virto Html5 Bulk File Upload setup program provides links to the various installation components for the calendar. To access Virto Html5 Bulk File Upload Setup program download Virto.Html5BulkFileUpload.20XX.XX.zip file and unzip it. Run extracted Setup.exe file. The setup wizard window will appear. Virto Html5 Bulk File Upload Setup wizard performs a system check prior to the installation. All the Copyright © 2020 All rights reserved. www.virtosoftware.com 5 system checks must be completed successfully in order to proceed with the installation. After the checks have completed, click “Next”. Copyright © 2020 All rights reserved. www.virtosoftware.com 6 Check “I accept the terms in the License Agreement” and click “Next”. Select the web application(s) where you want to install the product. Warning: You must be logged in to the SharePoint server with a Site Collection Administrator account to automatically activate this feature. Then click “Next”. Copyright © 2020 All rights reserved. www.virtosoftware.com 7 Click “Close” to complete the installation. SPFx Web Part Installation To start using Virto Html5 Bulk File Upload web part on modern sites/pages of SharePoint 2019 please do the steps as follows. 1) To install Virto Html5 Bulk File Upload web part run Setup.exe file as administrator under the farm administrator account. 2) Create App Catalog in your SharePoint if necessary: https://docs.microsoft.com/en- us/sharepoint/administration/manage-the-app-catalog. The .sppkg file will be automatically uploaded to "Apps for SharePoint". Now you can add the web part on the modern pages/sites. Note! Please do not use administrator account to install and activate SPFx web part. License Activation To see full instruction for successful activation of your component, please download “Virto License Manager” PDF instruction from Downloads section of our site or read it in Wiki. Copyright © 2020 All rights reserved. www.virtosoftware.com 8 Upgrading Virto Html5 Bulk File Upload If you already use Virto Html5 Bulk File Upload and need to upgrade it to the latest version, download the.zip file from http://www.virtosoftware.com. Unzip the file and run setup.exe. On the step 3 check the box “Upgrade” and click “Next”. Note: if you had activated the license while installing the previous Virto Html5 Bulk File Upload version, you do not need to activate it now. Uninstalling Virto Html5 Bulk File Upload To uninstall the component: Copyright © 2020 All rights reserved. www.virtosoftware.com 9 1. Double click the Setup.exe extracted from downloaded Virto.Html5BulkFileUpload.20XX.XX.zip file. 2. The program performs the system checks again. Once that has successfully completed, the program prompts you to Repair or Remove the solution. Select Remove, and click “Next”. Copyright © 2020 All rights reserved. www.virtosoftware.com 16 Virto Html5 Bulk File Upload Adjustment and Usage Virto Html5 Bulk File Upload is an Html 5-based web part intended for quick and easy uploading of multiple files to SharePoint. Virto Html5 Bulk File Upload Settings When the web part is installed, you have to add it to a SharePoint site page. Navigate to the web part settings block. Select the source list and folder (not required) where the files will be uploaded to. You can also select a list item to upload files as its attachments. Copyright © 2020 All rights reserved. www.virtosoftware.com 16 You can enable the following features: • Overwrite existing files option allows you to enable/disable overwriting of files which already exist in the list. • Show "Overwrite" option makes visible the “Overwrite existing files” checkbox. • “Allow changing destination folder” allows users to upload files to another place. • “Replace SharePoint invalid file name characters” replaces automatically the name characters which are not valid for SharePoint;