Using NONE as a Data Type

[rstockton]

We are working on a project to load adhoc data to an Application Group, this data will be in a blob type format which can contain anything and will not be viewed.  It will only be loaded and retrieved as is.  Would the Data Type of "NONE" work for this application?

Thanks,

Russell

[jeffs42885]

May be a stupid question but-

What fields are you setting up? Are you at least setting up a run date?

[Justin Derrick]

Set this as a User Defined data type, and set the extension and MIME Type to match the file type.  If there isn't a defined MIME type, use something like binary/octet-stream and make the file association for the extension on the PC. 

If the file you're loading is already compressed, you'll want to set compression to Disable if compressing it with OD77 provides no meaningful advantage.

-JD.

[rstockton]

Thanks for the replys.

The files are only in OnDemand for storage and will be retrieved by a user process that will open the file to determine the contents, and then use the data to create attachments for reports. Each indivdual file can contain different types of data and we will not know what the types are, they can have mime type data, XML strings or mixed data, in other words it will be blobs of data.  The data will be fully indexed and will not be compressed when received, we will compress at load time. 

I just need to make sure that loading it as NONE it can be easily opened by the retrieveing process.


Thanks,

Russell