On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 9:10 PM, ADeeg <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi, I like to upload pictures to the Amazon S3 storage and hope that I can > get timesavers to do this from 4D. > > Who can help me ? >
Armin, we went through the whole official aws command line program via LAUNCH EXTERNAL PROCESS route until we discovered a product called "CloudBerry Drive" from CloudBerry Labs that "...seamlessly integrates Amazon S3 as an external or network drive with the Windows environment". [Unfortunately as you see, that product is windows only, but I think I read somewhere they are working on a Mac solution; or there may be very similar Mac solutions; or if not, it might be worthwhile moving some processes involved to windows machines if you find it economically desirable for this project.] You can name and place your picture into a folder within that mounted drive (which is really an S3 bucket) directly from 4D - just as if it were a local folder. This makes handling any files you work with this way truly 4D native and easy to deal with, without messing with scripts and external processes. Further, If you designate your S3 bucket to be an AWS CloudFront type bucket, you will get a special ULR to that bucket (ex. " https://edglgb5o46ay9.cloudfront.net";) - so if you save your data driven invented path within a 4D Field (i.e. "/myPictureFolder3/myfilename28.pdf"), you can simply append that 4D field contents to your AWS cloudfront URL (i.e. " https://edglgb5o46ay9.cloudfront.net/myPictureFolder3/myfilename28.pdf) to provide a web link to that file within any document you generate (email, web page, message, 4D database itself, etc) What you get in addition is that AWS will immediately distribute "CloudFront" files to multiple distribution centers so users are accessing the file from some hosting center closest to them (for faster delivery), giving you "9 to the 9s" type backup security since it now exists in multiple locations instead of one repository. But more than that, you can mount that same S3 bucket as a local drive on multiple servers simultaneously to give you access to the same material from many different locations. In our case, for instance, we have specialized office servers constantly converting milllions and millions of county courthouse scanned tifs into PDFs. The PDFs are dropped into the appropriate county S3 bucket folder using 4D data driven naming conventions. Separate 4D driven (as well as non-4D) projects can then have access to the same S3 bucket material to provide links or actual download access from "local drive folders" for all kinds of in house routines or external web browser user links. For us, it solved multiple logistical issues and totally simplified (actually eliminated) a complex AWS S3 bucket access scripting system. I apologize for describing a windows solution to a mac question, but hope it helps. ---------------------------- Steve Simpson Cimarron Software ********************************************************************** 4D Internet Users Group (4D iNUG) FAQ: http://lists.4d.com/faqnug.html Archive: http://lists.4d.com/archives.html Options: http://lists.4d.com/mailman/options/4d_tech Unsub: mailto:[email protected] **********************************************************************
