Downloading Multiple Files from ConfTool

You can easily download single files from ConfTool by clicking on the corresponding link. If you have to download many files at once (e.g. PDF documents) and maybe even rename them after a specific pattern, we recommend to use the Firefox extension "downThemAll". You can install the extension directly from it's homepage.

Step by step instruction on how to download multiple documents with downThemAll:

1. Login to your ConfTool account.
2. Go to the according page, for instance, the list of all reviews assigned to you, or the list of all submissions (if you are a chair). Please note that you can access all files at once if you set "Per Page" to "All" for overview lists.
3. Select the item "DownThemAll" from the "Tools" menu of your Firefox browser.
4. Select a local download directory (see screenshot below).
5. Set a filter for your downloads:
   1. For instance select "Documents" if you want to download all PDF files.
   2. You can also set a filter by file extension: Enter the filter "*.pdf|*.doc|*.ppt|*.rtf|*.docx|*.odf" to download the corresponding file types only (see image below).
   3. Third example: If you want to download all PDF files in their anonymized form from the overview list, enter Contrib*.pdf.
6. Start the download.

Please note: If downThemAll does not work, you have to update a setting in the Firefox configuration, as Firefox 3.x has a known bug. To make donwThemAll work again, enter "about:config" in the address bar, accept the warning, search for "network.cookie.cookieBehavior"and set its value to "0". (Alternatively you can enable "3rd party cookies" in your privacy settings).