Best way to send large document outside appain

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

HI Sunil,

Thanks for the reply..Even i was thinking of using integration but what i am concerned about is, if the file is very large, would the service result is timeout??

HI Sunil,

Thanks for the reply..Even i was thinking of using integration but what i am concerned about is, if the file is very large, would the service result is timeout??

Indeed, timeouts would be an issue. However, you can adjust the timeout configuration in the Appian custom properties file.
Please have a look at this documentation forum.appian.com/.../Post-Install_Configurations.html

Hope it helps!

Regards,
Sunil Zacharia

Hi Sunil,

I think, this config change would apply across all the the web services timout period.. Is there a way we can increase the timout period just for my specific service??