Storing an attachment to DB or Service

[kanika.dhamija]

Hi Team ,

As we upload an attachment , as per our understanding it gets uploaded/stored to Kore cloud.

I have 2 questions here -

1. Can we upload/store the attachments to DB or any other service.

2. If it gets uploaded to Kore cloud , how can we download it for later reference.

Thanks

[Subrahmanyam (Subrahmanyam Donepudi)]

Hi @kanika.dhamija, Attachments can be uploaded using the “Attachment” entity type and it gets stored on the cloud. The downloadable link will be available in the context data. Please refer to the below post which helps provide more details.

Ability to upload attachments as entity and accessing the download URL from Bot Kit

Below is an example to demonstrate the ability to take attachments from the user using entity type “Attachment (Image / File)” and accessing the download URL for the attachment from bot kit. We have created the dialog “Upload picture” in which fileUpload is an entity node of type “Attachment”. [image] A webhook node Hook0001 has been added to the fileUpload entity to send the dialog context to the bot kit. Bot Kit has been configured at the bot and enabled the event -“onHookNode” [image] A…

[kanika.dhamija]

Can we store these attachments in DB or some where else, if we dont want to upload it to cloud?

[Subrahmanyam (Subrahmanyam Donepudi)]

@kanika.dhamija Currently the platform hasn’t provided the feature of uploading attachment to remote storage.

[kanika.dhamija]

I f have to do it , as a part of our requirement, is there any way to handle it offline?

[Subrahmanyam (Subrahmanyam Donepudi)]

@kanika.dhamija, Maybe I am thinking out loud but if you are using webSDK as the channel, you could possibly manage the chatwindow.js at “Function for Attachment” to send the attachment to an endpoint. Further, you should be able to also configure the message that needs to be sent back to the bot in this scenario.