RE: Federating Files in ARAS

AngelaIp — Mon, 11 May 2020 15:03:01 GMT

Hi,

I am not sure if it´s possible to federate files the same way as we federate data. But I would be also interested in this option!

As far as I understand your use case, your files shall NOT be copied/transferred to the Aras vault. So your files are stored somewhere else. Is this correct?

I wonder if we can specify some kind of alternative Vault that links to another data source. Federating "File" item would probably require that we build a fake file id and also fake a "Location" item so Innovator knows that the file itself is not withing innovator.
But I am not sure if we really can use the File ItemType this way.

Another option would be, not to use the Innovator File ItemType and just add some kind of html links to the files.

Well, just some ideas - no real solution.