Are many of you using Appian for document storage? If so, have you had any impa

When it comes to documents the most relevant variable to keep in mind is disk space; something you need to continuously monitor to make sure your environment doesn't run out of disk space. The good news is that Appian allows you to configure where exactly you want to store those documents physically through the conf.suite.BASE_PATH setting in custom.properties therefore you can have a special NFS server dedicated to store them.

@Eduardo: Can you please give a little insight on this. if we customize the base path,
1. Nothing changes in the way we are going to view the stored documents in designer > Documents tab right ? i mean only the storage location gets changed but Appian is going to take care of looking up documents from this new path right ?
2. if we change "resources.appian.process.application.PM_STORE_ROOT_PATH=", and i have an archieve settings say 30 days for my process, will my processes still be archieved from this new location. Basically i am trying to understand if changing any of the default path will affect any other behaviour like process archieving ?

And my process backed records will still be able to fetch a document stored as part of process data right ?

1. That's correct, as long as you change the setting, restart the environment and make sure you copy everything to the new location, Appian will be able to find the documents.

2. PM_STORE_ROOT_PATH is the location of process model XMLs on disk, it is not related to process instances.

To manage the location of archived processes please review: "Setting the Archive Directory" at forum.appian.com/.../Managing_Process_Archives.html