COH Provide ability to automatically define a custom folder structure for an attachment that is being uploaded to an S3 folder.

Current situation

The out of the box S3 Java class puts the attachments into a single S3 storage folder.

Our client needs the ability to store the attachments to a custom folder structure in the S3 storage folder.

Requirement:

Provide solution where customers can provide custom code that defines the folder structure to create/upload the file to.

This solution should allow customers to use their own algorithms to decide the folder to use.

The algorithm could be written in Java or an automation script.

Business case:

When there are large numbers of attachments then administrators will want to iterate through the list and delete files.

Deploying a folder structure would allow customers to quickly identify old folders and then delete them.

Feedback from Mark:

Hi Anamitra,

Thanks for reaching out.

The client wants to go much further than what has been provided before.

They want to have a folder structure where a folder is created for each day and the files are automatically placed in the folder for that day.

e.g.

The thinking is that the folder name can be automatically calculated based on some attribute on the attachment e.g. creation date/filename

Another piece of custom code can then archive individual folders to another piece of storage or delete them as necessary e.g. after 90 days have passed.

The client wants to avoid a situation where there are huge numbers of files in a single folder …