topic Re: Storing file attachments in Application Development and Automation Discussions

Storing file attachments

Former Member — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 13:03:39 GMT

Hello,

We have built a custom solution (custom objects, transactions, number ranges, UIs, etc.) to handle certain kind of requests in our SAP system. Now we would like to add file attachment functionality to our transaction(s) - in other words we want that the users will have possibility to add files as attachments when creating new requests or changing the existing ones.

What is the best approach to handle this requirement? From user interface point of view this is not an issue. I am familiar with the different file uploading possibilities within classic dynpro and web dynpro. The question is that how to store the files and where.

I don't think that storing the files into the SAP DB is really an option due to the large amount of large files. (I think that this would be quite easy to implement.) We have content server(s), but they have been configured as DMS - they are storing some engineering documents etc. into these content repositories.

Would it be possible to store the documents into these DMS content repositories (if yes, how can we do it?) and make a link between the file and our documents into a custom table? As far as I understand we really cannot start using the document info record functionality for our custom objects (or perhaps we can, but it will require a quite massive work effort.)

Or is it just the best option to configure new content repositories as type ArchiveLink, and then store the documents into these new content repositories?

Any other options?

Any thoughts are welcome.

Regards,

Re: Storing file attachments

former_member194669 — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 13:39:26 GMT

For DMS related questions we have separate thread is available

Close this thread and post into that or ask moderators to change this to DMS

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Re: Storing file attachments

Former Member — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 07:05:17 GMT

I close this thread and open a new one...

Re: Storing file attachments

Former Member — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 07:12:17 GMT

I will report abuse to your new thread!

Re: Storing file attachments

Former Member — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 08:10:11 GMT

Well, first I am instructed to ask this question in DMS forum. When I close this thread and open a similar one in DMS forum, I am being reported to abuse the system???

EDIT: The thread in DMS:

EDIT2: I opened this thread again...

Edited by: Pa Pa on Jul 24, 2009 10:11 AM

Edited by: Pa Pa on Jul 24, 2009 10:13 AM