How to host documents from External System to Amazon S3 and then show on Appian

RE: How to host documents from External System to Amazon S3 and then show on Appian

Stefan Helzle — Fri, 07 Jun 2024 06:21:44 GMT

To download that file, you can use a simple Appian integration.

Then, enhance step 3 by deleting the local file after upload.

Again, all of these steps are pretty simple. I would start trying to understand how to implement each individual step, and then stitch them together in a process.

RE: How to host documents from External System to Amazon S3 and then show on Appian

thevarunbawa — Fri, 07 Jun 2024 06:15:02 GMT

How can I implement the first step. I just get a URL to download the document. We don't need any UI action to be taken. Let's say in the process if I get the URL, then how can I save that document in Appian (Any smart service to do so) ?

Is there a possibility that I don't host any document in Appian because they don't want to keep any documents in Appian. It should be like in process "Document URL is retrieved in process and then downloaded document is uploaded on S3, in parallel saved metadata to Appian DB. Then on UI pull from S3 and Appian DB". No documents should be saved in Appian.

RE: How to host documents from External System to Amazon S3 and then show on Appian

Stefan Helzle — Fri, 07 Jun 2024 05:51:10 GMT

This seems like a pretty straight forward process. But I suggest to shuffle the steps a bit.

Download from Anaplan to Appian
Store meta data
Upload to S3 and store ID in meta data

Depending on what the user does with these files, you can just provide a link to download it directly from S3.