I’m using SharePoint 2007 and SharePoint Designer and I’m looking for a way to automate uploading files. We have a system that generates reports and emails them out to the department, but we would rather they be automatically uploaded to a sharepoint library. The easy way to do it would be to enable incoming emails for the sharepoint server, but I was told that was not an option.
From what I have been told, the files can be auto-saved to a unix or windows directory, so if there is a way to synch a directory with a document library that seems like it would be the easiest option.
We decided to go a different direction with this. We are downloading the files into a common directory that is used by both UNIX and Windows. From there a batch file is run to move the files to a mapped directory that points to a SharePoint library.