Documentation:: How to install Eie-Manager
Eie-manager does not require installation, just download the JAR file and run it.
If it doesn't run then your system is not Java enabled. Download and install the latest Java Runtime Environment from http://java.com.
Eie-Manager is also available as a standard WAR file deployable on any servlet container. This option provides a lot of integration opportunities in a corporate invironment. Please inquire for details.
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Documentation:: Starting and Stopping Eie-Manager
Starting and stopping the server is pretty straight-forward. Run Eie-Manager console and click "Start Server" button to start the server and
"Stop Server" button to stop it. "Login" button will open the login page in your default web browser. Default admin user id is 'admin' and default password is '' (empty). Make sure you
change the password when you login the first time.
If you want to start and stop the server from command line, change to the directory where eie-manager.jar is and type commands:
java -jar eie-manager.jar start 8080
java -jar eie-manager.jar stop
To start and stop Eie-Manager accordingly.
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Documentation:: Keyboard shortcuts
Just like it's prototype Norton Commander, Eie-Manager is a keyboard oriented application. Although mouse operation is fully supported, only keyboard shortcuts
can give you the speed and efficiency that no other web based file manager can provide.
Up, Down, Left, Right - use keyboard arrows up and down to navigate around the list of files. Use right arrow (or Enter key) to enter a folder and left arrow to get out of the folder.
Page Up, Page Down, Home, End - Skip up and down or jump to the first or last file in the list.
Ctrl+T, Ctrl+X, Tab, Shift+Tab - Hit Ctrl+T several times, this will create a bunch of new panels.
Hit Tab and Shift+Tab a few times, you can see how it switches between panels in both directions. You can open different folders in different panels. Now hit Ctrl+X to close some of the panels.
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C, M, Delete - leave only two panels, use key C to copy or key M to move a file or a folder from one panel to another. Use Delete to delete a file or a folder.
E, Shift+E, V, F - select a file and hit E to edit it or V to view. Press Shift+E to create a new file in the current folder. Use key F to create a folder.
Ctrl+U, Ctrl+G - upload (Ctrl+U) or get (Ctrl+G) a single file.
Insert, + (plus) - Use Insert key to select files or plus key to select files by a name pattern. This is very handy when you want to copy, move or delete multiple files.
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If you are familiar with NC or MC style shortcuts (F5, F6, F8 e.t.c..) you can also use them, unless you are Internet Explorer user. Function keys are impossible to intercept
in IE so they only work in Firefox, Safari and Chrome.
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Documentation:: How to create and configure user accounts
Login as admin, and navigate into /Users. This is a virtual folder made up by the user management plugin and these are not real folders but user accounts. However,
you can manipulate them just like if they were folders. So in order to create a user account, simply do what you'd do to create a folder - hit 'F' key, type in the user id (for example 'jsmith') and hit Enter. New accounts
by default are created with empty password.
To configure the newly created account navigate to /Users/jsmith and create a few folders, for example 'My Files', 'Network Share', 'FTP'. These will be the folders that the
user will see when he or she logs in.
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Each folder will have automatically created folder.properties file. The file is a typical properties file that contains the folder's settings. Edit it to map the folder to a
plugin. For example this will assign local file plugin to the folder and make it point to a path in a local drive:
plugin=eie-plugin-file
url=file://D:/users/jsmith
and this will seamlessly map the folder to an ftp host:
plugin=eie-plugin-ftp
url=ftp://anonymous:password@ftp.microsoft.com/
and this will map to a network share drive:
plugin=eie-plugin-smb
url=smb://user:password@127.0.0.1/c$/temp/
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Documentation:: Installing and removing plugins and licenses
Eie-Manager is made of a set of plugins. There's even a plugin that controls other plugins. Each plugin represents a virtual file system that can be an actual
file system, local or remote, or it can be any other data such as emails, task lists, catalogues or database tables, represented as files and folders.
Login as admin and navigate to /Plugins. You can see the list of installed plugins and licenses. You can manipulate them just like if they were files. If you want to delete one, just
point at it and hit Delete button. Or if you want to install a new one, just copy the plugin package file over from a file location to /Plugins and it will get installed. Same with
licenses, if you want to install a new license - just copy it over into /Plugins and delete the old one. Plugins are OSGi bundles and distributed as .jar files. Licenses are
distributed as .lic files and contain binary encrypted license data.
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Documentation:: viewing and editing files
Select a file and hit V to view it or E to edit. Hit Escape to exit the viewer or editor. To create a new text file hit Shift+E. Eie-manager supports viewers and editors for different file types so when you are viewing a text file it appears as text and when
you are viewing an image it appears as an image.
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Documentation:: Select by mask and regular expressions
Eie-manager supports regular expressions in select by mask dialog (Keyboard shortcut: + (plus)) that allows selecting files with names matching a regular expression.
Examples:
zip - will select files that have substring "zip" in their names. This includes archive.zip and zippo.pdf
.zip - will select archive.zip, myzippo.pdf but not zippo.pdf because "." in regexp means any one character.
\.zip$ - will select only files that end with ".zip". Note how the "." is escaped so this time it means a dot, not any single characer and note that there's "$" sign at the end that
signifies the end of sting.
^20\d\d[- /.](0[6-8]|1[012])[- /.](0[1-9]|[12][0-9]|3[01][.*][\.doc]$' - will select all the Word documents that have a date in it's name
and the date is between 2006-01-01 and 2008-12-31.
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