storing docs and retrieving them again

Classic Servoy
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As a piece of the puzzle in my ongoing development-tool evaluation task …

I would much appreciate it if anyone could summarize how the following might best be accomplished in Servoy to be as automated and smooth as possible for completely non-technical end-users, in small shops with no on-staff IT person. A “shirtsleeves” environment.

  1. Using Servoy for document management: Store docs as blobs? Or store on a file server and use a URL link to them?

  2. I’ve noticed in working with FMP that the file:// protocol is not reliable. If the answer to #1 is “file server”, is there some way besides a file: url to open those docs on the end-users computer in the doc’s native application?

  3. On the other hand, if docs are stored as blobs, what is apparent on the end-users screen? A Word icon for a Word document, Adobe icon for a pdf? Or something different?

  4. If stored as blobs, can the user edit and write changes back to the media library?

Thanks so much to anyone kind enough to answer!

gaBbY

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Store them in blob!

Look here: http://forum.servoy.com/viewtopic.php?t … light=blob

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and if :

  • you have large documents (which would be better to stream rather than insert into an object which is sent over the wire), or
  • you would like to manage mime-types seamlessly

take a look at my data-stream and media-manager plugins:

http://forum.servoy.com/viewtopic.php?t=4598

julian