New Feature: Manual File Upload/Download

Starting from today, Amanuens allows you to manually upload and download files without the need to connect to your source code repository.

Using the Stand-alone File Repository, as we call it, is very easy. Just launch the new Project Creation Wizard from your account Dashboard, and select “No” when it asks if you want to connect to a source code repository.

The new Stand-alone File Repository allows you to:

• upload and download individual resource files
• upload and download resource files in ZIP archives
• email a ZIP archive containing all the files in the repository to a recipient of your choice (or to yourself)
• easily manage the repository structure, ensuring that all files are always named correctly (file naming and directory structure are enforced).

Apart from being managed by Amanuens, the repository works 100% like a regular source code repository. Actually, it’s a plain Subversion 1.6 repo, so we might even make more versioning and diffing features available in the future.

We think that the Stand-alone File Repository is very useful when you want to try Amanuens without having to configure a connection to your repository, but still getting 100% of the platform functionality and workflow management. We’re still convinced that connecting to your repo saves you lots of overhead, but after all zipping all your resource files and uploading them isn’t that complex either.

What do you think about this new feature?