Amazon S3 Utilities

baratc I don't have documentation explaining this in detail, but in the plugin description there is a line "It can be used in a WebAPI object to redirect a user from Appian to a resource on S3". That is exactly what you need to do. As you experienced, you cannot generate an S3 link and directly put it on the form as it will expire inside 5s. What you need is a WebAPI that will take in a doc id, validate user access, generate the AWS link and respond with a 302 (redirect). You can then put static links to the web api on your form.

Hi Mike,

Thanks for sharing this plugin.  We are using plug in to get the documents and display in appian. We are using links(S3URL) for users to download the documents. Looks like currently URL is expiring  in 5000 milliseconds. I think time is very short for the user to navigate to download. To overcome this sceanario we used a!refresh function but still the life of the url is short. We have around 10+ docs and URLs need to available for the user to downlaod the pdf;s  Please let me know whether any option is increase the expTimeMillis to 5 mins or can we pass expTimeMillis as a parameter to the plugin.  Thanks in advance for your help. 

• Adds a function getPreSignedURL that generates a V4 pre-signed URL that expires after 5s. This allows for temporary sharing of secured resources with non-authorized users. This would be mainly used in a WebAPI object to redirect a user to an S3 resource

Sylvain Furt , I agree with your comments.  We are moving forward with using the 19.1 Plug-in April Schuppel  suggested.  As such, I have not made any modifications to the plug-in.  As I was working on a proof of concept, I would have likely just changed the Plug-in to hard code for my region, as opposed to US_EAST_1.  I agree, it is likely better to update so that it is parameterized.  I too was able to get theh Plug-In to upload a file, but only if the S3 was in US_EAST_1

I do believe the new 19.1 Plug-in is superior.  Anyone with access to a 19.1 environment with S3 needs should use that Plug-In instead.  Others will need to modify this plug-in to work with the S3 Region they need.  Depending on scope and bandwidth, the entire Plug-In could use a refresh, as it's using deprecated AWS methods.

community.appian.com/.../amazon-s3-connected-system-plug-in

@All I just tested the plugin on Appian 19.1 and I was successfully able to upload files to an S3 bucket that I just created.

Regarding the regions, this plugin is currently hardcoded to only work with Regions.US_EAST_1.

As an enhancement, you should add an extra input parameter to allow designers to configure which region the bucket is located into.

Thoughts?

Sylvain Furt (sylvain.furt)  Yes i do have the credentials (Access Key and Secret Key in the third party credentials store with S3 Util having access to it as well.

jamesm881 - I don't believe that this plugin has been refreshed in a while. The source code is included in the jar. Could you make the update and share it?

@Ankur - this plugin requires access to a secure credential store that contains the credentials for S3. This is a configuration that needs to be done in the admin console on your environment.

Is this plugin broken? We have a requirement to use this plugin to get data from S3 and i keep getting "This plug-in [com.appiancorp.ps.plugins.amazonS3Utils] is not registered to access secured values for the given external system key"

Hi jamesm881 - there is a new Amazon S3 Connected System Plug-in community.appian.com/.../amazon-s3-connected-system-plug-in which you will be able to use with Appian 19.1