Compound documents are folders that serve as representations of the parent asset.

When you upload a compound document, individual child documents are created for each file included, regardless of whether the same file has already been uploaded and used for another compound asset elsewhere in the system. This means that there can be multiple duplicate child assets within different compounds.

To upload your compound document using Nuxeo, the files are pre-formatted and packaged into a .zip file, which is then loaded into the Nuxeo instance.

Once inside the instance, a script identifies the uploaded file and generates the necessary folder structure to organize the documents accordingly.