Attach 500MB attachment to RTC
We have a customer in China who is exploring the adoption of RTC, one of their requirement is need to attach a file up to 500MB to a work item. this scenario happens in normal frequency.
We have been pointed to a question in the forum: https://jazz.net/forum/questions/1523/attachment-size-limit-for-work-items?redirect=%2Fforum%2Fquestions%2F1523%2Fattachment-size-limit-for-work-items I have several questions around this feature: (1) as we have this setting, does not RTC is not recommending users to have big attachment. Are there any concerns if the users attachment is usually around 500MB? (2) what happens if I have the default set to 50M and try to upload a 500MB attachment? why RTC want to limit this? Looking forward for responses, Thanks, Scarlett |
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remember that all attachments are stored in the SQL database. This will consume a lot of database space. Also, it is VERY hard to remove attachments (purge them).
When I was working on this problem, our recommendation was to use Related Artifact LINKS to the files, which would be on a file server of some sort. some of our attachments were >2gig. |
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Thanks sam, that make senses!