Appreciate the explanation.. Joe
________________________________ From: Misi Mladoniczky <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wed, March 2, 2011 12:42:38 AM Subject: Re: is it possible to get attachments from a vendor form.......... Hi, The Vendor-form/ARDBC-functionality does not care about how the data in the opposite side is stored. You have to do the programming to get this BLOB into either a memory buffer or on to the servers filesystem before you handle it over to the AR Server through ARDBCGetGetEntryBLOB. Or in the other direction, you will get the file as an uncompress (char *) buffer from ARDBCSetEntry/ARDBCCreateEntry to store as you see fit. Best Regards - Misi, RRR AB, http://www.rrr.se Products from RRR Scandinavia (Best R.O.I. Award at WWRUG10): * RRR|License - Not enough Remedy licenses? Save money by optimizing. * RRR|Log - Performance issues or elusive bugs? Analyze your Remedy logs. Find these products, and many free tools and utilities, at http://rrr.se. > My bad... I did mean compression but wrote encryption.. > > Thanks for the correction.. > > So if you have a foreign table that contains a blob field that stores > attachment, can you use a AR Vendor form to retrieve that attachment which > has > been compressed using a non Remedy compression method? How would you know > what > compression method has been used to store it? > > Joe > > > > > ________________________________ > From: Misi Mladoniczky <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Tue, March 1, 2011 12:23:43 AM > Subject: Re: is it possible to get attachments from a vendor > form.......... > > Hi, > > You just implement the ARDBCGetEntryBLOB-call in your ARDBC-plugin. > > I actually did just that doing a general purpose Documentum-integration > for > accessing your documents through the ARUser-interface. > > The data is not encrypted, but rather compressed. This is done between the > client and server, but is allays handled uncompressed when sent to an > API-program such as an ARDBC-plugin. > > Best Regards - Misi, RRR AB, http://www.rrr.se > > Products from RRR Scandinavia (Best R.O.I. Award at WWRUG10): > * RRR|License - Not enough Remedy licenses? Save money by optimizing. > * RRR|Log - Performance issues or elusive bugs? Analyze your Remedy logs. > Find these products, and many free tools and utilities, at http://rrr.se. > >> Wouldn't the proprietary encryption that Remedy uses for its attachment >> create >>a >> problem to read attachments stored by some other application in a >> foreign > table >> in a BLOB? Or is the Vendor form functionality smart enough to know that >> since >> its not a ARS attachment to use the regular database compression >> algorithm to >> read the attachment? >> >> Joe >> >> >> >> ________________________________ >> From: Misi Mladoniczky <[email protected]> >> To: [email protected] >> Sent: Mon, February 28, 2011 10:09:29 AM >> Subject: Re: is it possible to get attachments from a vendor >> form.......... >> >> Hi, >> >> The Vendor-form-functionality (ARDBC) definitely supports the attachment >> data type, but if ARGetEntryBLOB is fully supported depends on that >> specific >> implementation of ARDBC. >> >> Are you writing your own plugin or do you make use of one that someone >> else wrote? >> >> Many of the Vendor-forms supplied by BMC only support the bare minimum >> required of them, depending on their purpose. >> >> For example they may have implemented simple qualifications for >> searching >> using ARGerListEntryWithFields, but not retrieval of individual records >> using >> ARGetEntry. In other words if you do a search in ARUser, you will see >> the >> list, but the fields will be blank in the form details. >> >> Best Regards - Misi, RRR AB, http://www.rrr.se >> >> Products from RRR Scandinavia (Best R.O.I. Award at WWRUG10): >> * RRR|License - Not enough Remedy licenses? Save money by optimizing. >> * RRR|Log - Performance issues or elusive bugs? Analyze your Remedy >> logs. >> Find these products, and many free tools and utilities, at >> http://rrr.se. >> >> hi all, >> >> I am trying to get data from out side and most of the data had >> attachments in >> .txt and pdf and .doc is it possible to get those through by using >> the vendor form. >> >> Thanks in advance _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org attend wwrug11 www.wwrug.com ARSList: "Where the Answers Are"
