Demonstrates how to download files in the Vault to the server and add them to a .Zip Archive

DownloadFilesAndCreateZipOnServer.cs

Innovator inn = this.getInnovator();

// Make sure some ids were passed in
if (String.IsNullOrEmpty(this.getProperty("file_ids")))
{
    return inn.newError("No Files specified to download.");
}

// User the Users ID to create a temporary directory
string folderPath = @"C:\Temp\Aras\MultipleFileDownload\" + inn.getUserID();
string filePath = folderPath + "\\Files";
string zipPath = folderPath + "\\Zip";

// Create folder for this action
if (System.IO.Directory.Exists(folderPath))
{
    System.IO.Directory.Delete(folderPath, true);
}
System.IO.DirectoryInfo di = System.IO.Directory.CreateDirectory(filePath);
System.IO.DirectoryInfo zdi = System.IO.Directory.CreateDirectory(zipPath);

// Get a collection of the files we will want to download
Item files = inn.newItem("File", "get");
files.setAttribute("idlist", this.getProperty("file_ids"));
files = files.apply();
if (files.isError())
{
    return files;
}

// Create a checkout manager to download all of the files to the server
Aras.IOME.CheckoutManager cm = new Aras.IOME.CheckoutManager(files);
cm.DownloadFiles(filePath, 1);

// Once the files are downloaded to the server, create a zip file
const string zipName = "AllFiles.zip";
string fullZipPath = String.Format("{0}\\{1}", zipPath, zipName);
try
{
    if (System.IO.File.Exists(fullZipPath))
    {
        System.IO.File.Delete(fullZipPath);
    }
    System.IO.Compression.ZipFile.CreateFromDirectory(filePath, fullZipPath);
}
catch (InvalidDataException)
{
    return inn.newError("Could not create .zip archive");
}

// Upload this .zip to Innovator
Item zipFile = inn.newItem("File", "add");
zipFile.setProperty("filename", zipName);
zipFile.attachPhysicalFile(fullZipPath);
zipFile = zipFile.apply();

return zipFile;