Integrations and Documents

RE: Integrations and Documents

jerrys790 — Thu, 06 Sep 2018 20:54:25 GMT

Thank you everyone

RE: Integrations and Documents

sagarl511 — Thu, 06 Sep 2018 10:44:19 GMT

As far as I know - to view/download document in Appian from external sources - it must convert into Appian document object. I have tried writing plugins to save document in DB, external system storage, etc.
For similar issue we used external Content Management system where users could search, download or view documents. And using CMIS connectors we pushed document to CMS system and as and wherever required we pulled it using the same. I hope this helps.

RE: Integrations and Documents

anshuk0001 — Thu, 06 Sep 2018 06:06:12 GMT

community.appian.com/.../sftp-smart-services
Please have a look on the above link .

RE: Integrations and Documents

Robert Shankin — Wed, 05 Sep 2018 21:51:09 GMT

If you cannot increase the size of where you're storing your docs, then you may need to get creative.
18.3 has a new doc viewer capability that allows the user to view docs without even downloading them. I'd like for you to be able to leverage that.
For now, I'm wondering if you couldn't leverage the web content field to give you an Appian "window" into something else that displays your docs....

RE: Integrations and Documents

jerrys790 — Wed, 05 Sep 2018 20:59:10 GMT

Hey Rob,
The idea is that i would like to read/view documents external to Appian from Inside Appian without having to save that document using a knowledge Center/Folder etc....
We had some documents in Appian that we transferred to an external server via SFTP because of environment overload in which the documents were taking too much space on the environment's server. Now we want the user to be able to view those outside documents from within Appian. Is there any way it could be done in that manner. If not are there any suggestions on how to best implement this?

RE: Integrations and Documents

Robert Shankin — Wed, 05 Sep 2018 19:53:23 GMT

Hi Jerry -
I want to make sure I'm following you.

I think you're asking, "Can I look at documents external to Appian from inside Appian?"
(Which begs the question: does "look at" mean see that the documents exist, or read/view the content of the document?)

But then you wrote "...an Integration Object into Appian calling the endpoint as a post", which sounds to me like an external consumer is calling an Appian webAPI - so then it sounds like the activity is initiated externally.

If you wouldn't mind, can you share your use case so we can better understand what you'd like to do?

Thanks,
Rob