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Hi,

some customers use URL files in document management to save links to documents in their internal environment.

With our web based B2B solutions, business partners cannot access the documents as they point to links that are not reachable from outside the customers network. 

We are interested if anyone else uses URL files in IFS DMS to point to internal locations. How do you make these files accessible for business partners in IFS B2B portals?

BR

Hi,

The question sometimes comes up, on how to handle documents that are stored in other systems. We often give as a suggestion what you have done. It's cheaper than to build an integration and, as long as only viewing is needed in IFS, it should work quite well.

The approach falls apart in the scenario you describe, of course. Unless you can find a way to grant the B2B users access to the linked documents.

Or, as you also thought about, build something in IFS that fetches the file content via those links. It might not be that hard, actually, to have the Java code that we anyway use to fetch document file data from the database, File Storage, FTP, etc. Sounds like a fun experiment 🙂 Be mindful of the possible security implications of "blindly" following links outside IFS Cloud though...

Good luck!

 

Hello Matthias,

Thanks a lot for your input. Do you have a hint where to find the Java code you are talking about? Or at least a starting point for the investigation.

 

Best regards,

Tobias

Hello Matthias,

Thanks a lot for your input. Do you have a hint where to find the Java code you are talking about? Or at least a starting point for the investigation.

Hi Tobias,

All of the file handling code lies in docman/source/docman/projection/packages/utils/com/ifsworld/docman/projection/util/DocmanFileOperationUtil.java.

 

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