Best way to send large document outside appain

Question

Hi, 
 
 Could some one tell me the best way to send large document(say +30 MB) from appian to external system? 
 
 Thanks, 
 Nitesh

Sunil Zacharia · Answer

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