Best way to send large document outside appain

RE: Best way to send large document outside appain

Shanmukha — Fri, 10 Aug 2018 05:30:04 GMT

Hi Nithesh,

You can transfer the files using SFTP/FTP through one simple java batch application. It will help you to move n number of files. it is better instead of the plugin. You can configure it as cron job which will run at particular time.

RE: Best way to send large document outside appain

nitesht9652 — Fri, 10 Aug 2018 05:05:27 GMT

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??

RE: Best way to send large document outside appain

Sunil Zacharia — Fri, 10 Aug 2018 04:50:45 GMT

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

RE: Best way to send large document outside appain

nitesht9652 — Fri, 10 Aug 2018 04:32:13 GMT

Hi Umesh,

I am looking for Appian OOTB functionality which can deal with the large document before considering plugin usage.

Thanks,
Nitesh

RE: Best way to send large document outside appain

nitesht9652 — Fri, 10 Aug 2018 04:28:25 GMT

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??

RE: Best way to send large document outside appain

Sunil Zacharia — Thu, 09 Aug 2018 20:20:26 GMT

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.

RE: Best way to send large document outside appain

Umesh Patel — Thu, 09 Aug 2018 19:51:30 GMT

Hi Nitesh,
I think good way is SFTP plugIn's to transfer big files to and fro from Appian to external system.
forum.appian.com/.../summary

Thanks.

RE: Best way to send large document outside appain

Sunil Zacharia — Thu, 09 Aug 2018 19:08:46 GMT

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