I have no experience with OpenText.
I have a client who hosts a large amount of documents on OpenText Content Server. They would like to do things such as:
Navigating through the file system and moving files between directories in the file system
Upload files (PDF, MS Word docs, etc.) from local machines to the cloud file system
Retrieve files from the cloud file system to be stored and opened on local machines, or read the content of files directly through the API
Changing access rights (read/write) of users on Content Server
Are these options possible through the AppWorks REST API?
Lastly, is there any reporting analytics data available about the Content Server, e.g.:
Number of uploads/downloads in a timeframe
Number of users logged in a timeframe
etc.
The first 4 items are possible out of the box with the newer versions.
The latter two would need reports to be created on the server side which in turn then be called via rest.
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I'm trying to build a website on Squarespace, in which the site links to a database file. It's stored in a standard file system on a server tower with cluster. No SQL architecture or anything that I explicitly know of. Unfortunately Google Drive isn't an option due to the size of the file ( > 200 GB). I'm rather lost due to the size constraint -- does anyone have an idea about how to do this? Can I set up some sort of server query using a link on the site? Can I upload the file from my computer and store it somewhere in the backend? Thanks.
"...the size of the file ( > 200 GB)..."
Unfortunately, Squarespace's own upload limitations are far below this for the two places where files like that can be stored: file storage (20MB) and developer-mode '/assets' folder (10MB). The CSS-/Style-related storage only supports images (and likely has a limit of less than 20MB). Digital download products can be 300MB (still to small for your file) and likely can't be linked-to and accessed as you'd need for your application.
"...Can I set up some sort of server query using a link on the site?..."
If you mean a query on some other service besides Squarespace which connects to the file hosted on your Squarespace site, the answer is no simply because there's no way to upload the file to Squarespace due to its size. If, however, your mean a query from your Squarespace site to the file hosted elsewhere, then this must be done using JavaScript and done entirely client-side due to Squarespace's lack of support for server-side languages.
"...Can I upload the file from my computer and store it somewhere in the backend?..."
See the options mentioned above, though all have file size limits below that of your file.
If you are able to utilize the file on your site using client-size/front-end JavaScript only, then perhaps you could host the file on Amazon S3 or other such provider and access it that way.
I'm trying to fetch all events from entire system by using REST API to synchronize with own application. I was extracting events for every user using REST API for his own calendar file.
For example:
Fetch johndoe.nsf/api/calendar/events
Fetch jasonmartin.nsf/api/calendar/events
Fetch jeanmoore.nsf/api/calendar/events
etc.
It's working with low number of users. But I need to do it for around 2,5k users, which kills my system.
Is there any central database from I can extract this data?
I tried this with resource reservation databese, but only what I got was empty response.
No, there is no central database of calendar events. There couldn't be. Notes and Domino is a distributed environment. Information can be spread over dozens of servers.
But you could write Java or C application that runs on the Domino server and aggregates the information from all the users' calendars into one central database, and that application will probably run faster than your remote calls through the REST API. But you'll still have to make REST API calls into that central database, and the sum of the activity will be greater than what you are dealing with now.
Maybe my iCal freeware tool could help you
http://abdata.ch/publish-ibm-domino-calendar-entries-in-icalendar-format/
I am asking for advice on possibly better solutions for the part of the project I'm working on. I'll first give some background and then my current thoughts.
Background
Our clients can use my company's products to generate potentially large data sets for use in their industry. When the data sets are generated, the clients will file a processing request to us.
We want to send the clients a summary email which contains some statistical charts as well as sampling points from the data sets so they can do some initial quality control work. If the data sets are of bad quality, they don't need to file any request.
One problem is that the charts and sampling points can be potentially too large to be sent in an email. The charts and the sampling points we want to include in the emails are pictures. Although we can use low-quality format such as JPEG to save space, we cannot control how many data sets would be included in the summary email, so the total size could still exceed the normal email size limit.
In terms of technologies, we are mainly developing in Python on Ubuntu 14.04.
Goals of the Solution
In general, we want to present a report-like thing to the clients to do some initial QA. The report may contains external links but does not need to be very interactive. In other words, a static report should be fine.
We want to reduce the steps or things that our clients must do to read the report. For example, if the report can be just an email, the user only needs to 1). log in and 2). open the email. If they use a client software, they may skip 1). and just open and begin to read.
We also want to minimize the burden of maintaining extra user accounts for both us and our clients. For example, if the solution requires us to register a new user account, this solution is, although still acceptable, not ranked very high.
Security is important because our clients don't want their reports to be read by unauthorized third parties.
We want the process automated. We want the solution to provide programming interface so that we can automate the report sending/sharing process.
Performance is NOT a critical issue. Our user base is not large. I think at most in hundreds. They also don't generate data that frequently, at most once a week. We don't need real-time response. Even a delay of a few hours is still acceptable.
My Current Thoughts of Solution
Possible solution #1: In-house web service. I can set up a server machine and develop our own web service. We put the report into our database and the clients can then query via the Internet.
Possible solution #2: Amazon Web Service. AWS is quite mature but I'm not sure if they could be expensive because so far we just wanna share a report with our remote clients which doesn't look like a big deal to use AWS.
Possible solution #3: Google Drive. I know Google Drive provides API to do uploading and sharing programmatically, but I think we need to register a dedicated Google account to use that.
Any better solutions??
You could possibly use AWS S3 and Cloudfront. Files can easily be loaded into S3 using the AWS SDK's and API. You can then use the API to generate secure links to the files that can only be opened for a specific time and optionally from a specific IP.
Files on S3 can also be automatically cleaned up after a specific time if needed using lifecycle rules.
Storage and transfer prices are fairly cheap with AWS and remember that the S3 storage cost indicated is by the month so if you only have an object loaded for a few days then you only pay for a few days.
S3: http://aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing
Cloudfront: https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/pricing/
Here's a list of the SDK's for AWS:
https://aws.amazon.com/tools/#sdk
Or you can use their command line tools for Windows batch or powershell scripting:
https://aws.amazon.com/tools/#cli
Here's some info on how the private content urls are created:
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudFront/latest/DeveloperGuide/PrivateContent.html
I will suggest to built this service using mix of your #1 and #2 options. You can do the processing and for transferring the data leverage AWS S3 which is quiet cheap.
Example: 100GB costs like approx $3.
Also AWS S3 will be beneficial as you are covered for any disaster on your local environment your data will be safe in S3.
For security you can leverage data encryption and signed URLS in AWS S3.
I have a website in which users would upload various and later access them.
The files are stored in a specific path in the server at this point. Now if I need to have multiple servers for the website, what is the best way to make the user uploaded files accessible across multiple servers. Amazon s3 is one option that has crossed my mind. What other options do I have?
First, you can try using a CDN (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_delivery_network).
Also, you can make it in house, by having specialized servers setup for static content. You will need maybe a lookup server, to know for each file on what server can be found. It will also contain the logic to determine what is the best server to use to save the file. This is more complicated, as you will have to make the load balancing and take care of geographic location of users.
Is it possible to create a new file (simple text file) and store it within an IMAP folder?
So e.g. my program analyzes the mails and wants to store a file with statistics in an IMAP folder, so it's stored on the server and not locally so that you can get the information through all platforms. Of course this may be a misuse of these folders (normally they are supposed to store emails), but exists a functionality in IMAP that lets me upload whatever I want to specific folders on the server?
What you want is the METADATA extension. Not very widely supported, but perhaps your goal is a server that happens to support it.
The people who voted your question down should do penance by reading RFC5464.