Storage volumes management

The Sage X3 platform supplies the management of logical volumes. A volume is where documents can be safely stored and shared. Any upload or download of a document can be performed from or to a logical volume.

Definition

A volume can be the following:

• A global volume attached to the client platform. The document stored in such volumes is stored in the common mongodb document database and can be set up directly.
• A storage of large files (BLOB or CLOB) in the database associated with a Sage X3 folder. The volume is then attached to an endpoint.
• A location (URI) on a physical disk available from the Sage X3 application server present on the network or from a server. The volume can be attached to an endpoint to limit its use with the corresponding folder.

This function manages both global volumes and endpoint associated volumes. At query time, the presented list aggregates all of the global volumes and the volumes defined for every endpoint.

Query page

A volume is defined by the following information:

Code

This code identifies the volume. It can be any character string including spaces. It must be unique among all volumes associated with endpoints.

Description

Describes the volume.

Storage

This information can only have the following value:

• mongodb: This volume corresponds to a global storage on the mongodb platform. Any kind of document can be stored there: character, binary files, pictures, JSon documents, Office documents, and so forth.

Endpoint

Links the volume to a Sage X3 folder. Endpoints must be defined if the storage aread is a CLOB or a BLOB type. It can be defined if the storage area is a File type. It must be empty if the storage area is a mongodb type.

Factory

This check box defines if the record is supplied as a factory record or not. When checked, a factory code is also displayed and can be entered if you are a factory provider. This features allows to prevent some modifications on records supplied by defaut by Sage or by a vertical solution provider. More information about this feature is given in the following document.