Hi,
Could some one tell me the best way to send large document(say +30 MB) from appian to external system?
Thanks,
Nitesh
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Hi Nitesh,
If you’re on 18.2 you can use the integration component to send documents as a stream to an external system that can handle documents through a service. You just need to change the content type to Document and then pass the Appian document in the body.
You can also use the Httpfileupload smart service in a process to upload files to another system that exposes an api for accepting documents.
Another approach is to use a cloud based document storage service (example Amazon S3) to upload your document and the send a link to the external system. The external system can then decide whether to download the document using the link or just store the reference.
Regards,
Sunil Zacharia
Yes I agree. For really large files SFTP is the best solution. Although it depends on the capability of the external system to handle files through sftp. Also SFTP file transfers work on fire and forget pattern. So it is an asynchronous transfer.