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Accessing files from a drive

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Hi In our project we are planning to fetch files from a server. It will be a shared folder that has files put from external system, we have to pick those files and further process them in Mendix and dispaly data. I wanted know the best way of fetching file from a folder from a service. On thing is to create web service get data and display it in Mendix site. ANy suggetions?

asked 2017-04-05

shefali bedi

3 answers

Christiaan Westgeest · Answer 1 · 2017-04-05

You want to pick up files from a shared folder? Or from a service?

In the case of a folder-location: Is it an (s)FTP folder? Or a network folder on the same network as your application?

In the case of a service: It would depend on the kind of service that is exposed.

Sue Lhymn · Answer 2 · 2019-12-18

Would this java action still work if the app was in the cloud and the file from the network?

Chris de Gelder · Answer 3 · 2017-04-06

Community commons java action FileDocumentFromFile