Question

Is it possible to upload a file to external storage? In mendix app.

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It seems that Mendix force us to store every file in mendix. We do not want to store our files in mendix storage as we use external storage. So , would like to upload a file to external storage via an API using Mendix file uploader.

asked 2020-10-13

Atul khiste

2 answers

Miroslav Samoylenko · Answer 1 · 2020-10-13

Mendix does not force you to store files in a local storage. Mendix makes it very simple to store files in a local storage. However, if you want to store it elsewhere you have multiple ways to solve this problem. You can write a custom widget which writes you file from the browser directly to the external storage. Otherwise, you can use Mendix built in functionality to store file in a local storage, and then via an after commit microflow move it to the storage of your choice. We follow the second approach to move files to AWS S3.

david verstricht · Answer 2 · 2020-10-13

Mendix has modules to connect to a SFTP Server, so you can store the location of the file in the Mendix database, and not the file itselfs