Files in a LANLESS system
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Keep in mind that OneDrive and Google Apps are doing this already today. So this isn't a big issue that is just theory, it's literally already solved in specific cases.
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@Dashrender said in Files in a LANLESS system:
@scottalanmiller said in Files in a LANLESS system:
@Dashrender said in Files in a LANLESS system:
@scottalanmiller said in Files in a LANLESS system:
@Dashrender said in Files in a LANLESS system:
@scottalanmiller let's assume that we get direct application access from Word/Writer into SP or NC, how do you send a link to someone else so they know they have access? How do you register that 'link' in some way so that the correct application launches when trying to open the link?
How do you do it today? Why would it need to change at all?
Paying particular attention to Gene's wording, there would be no more files, only data in a DB. In that case, to send the information via email would mean extracting that data into some kind of usable format then emailing it.
So the contents of the file are simply sent as a file.... that's all a file normally is, a database holding text directly on it with a label on it with the filename. So.... literally nothing changes here under the hood. There is no more or less extraction than before.
You were weren't talking about getting rid of docx files and xlsx files, etc?
FYI, I didn't think you were - Instead I was responding to Gene's specific typing in the OP.
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@Dashrender said in Files in a LANLESS system:
@scottalanmiller said in Files in a LANLESS system:
@Dashrender said in Files in a LANLESS system:
@scottalanmiller said in Files in a LANLESS system:
@Dashrender said in Files in a LANLESS system:
@scottalanmiller let's assume that we get direct application access from Word/Writer into SP or NC, how do you send a link to someone else so they know they have access? How do you register that 'link' in some way so that the correct application launches when trying to open the link?
How do you do it today? Why would it need to change at all?
Paying particular attention to Gene's wording, there would be no more files, only data in a DB. In that case, to send the information via email would mean extracting that data into some kind of usable format then emailing it.
So the contents of the file are simply sent as a file.... that's all a file normally is, a database holding text directly on it with a label on it with the filename. So.... literally nothing changes here under the hood. There is no more or less extraction than before.
You were weren't talking about getting rid of docx files and xlsx files, etc?
Yup, and still am. No files, but that doesn't mean that you can't have a file "view".
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@scottalanmiller said in Files in a LANLESS system:
@Dashrender said in Files in a LANLESS system:
@scottalanmiller said in Files in a LANLESS system:
@Dashrender said in Files in a LANLESS system:
@scottalanmiller said in Files in a LANLESS system:
@Dashrender said in Files in a LANLESS system:
@scottalanmiller let's assume that we get direct application access from Word/Writer into SP or NC, how do you send a link to someone else so they know they have access? How do you register that 'link' in some way so that the correct application launches when trying to open the link?
How do you do it today? Why would it need to change at all?
Paying particular attention to Gene's wording, there would be no more files, only data in a DB. In that case, to send the information via email would mean extracting that data into some kind of usable format then emailing it.
So the contents of the file are simply sent as a file.... that's all a file normally is, a database holding text directly on it with a label on it with the filename. So.... literally nothing changes here under the hood. There is no more or less extraction than before.
You were weren't talking about getting rid of docx files and xlsx files, etc?
Yup, and still am. No files, but that doesn't mean that you can't have a file "view".
But OneDrive, etc still store those things as objects, I don't think you can edit the 'Word.doc' file directly inside the DB, you need to send that object of data to Word to edit it.
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With a document database and a RESTful interface, you can literally do things like this...
https://mysite/my_word_doc.docx
To get a file, but it is coming straight out of a database with no files. The "file" Is something that is actually created by the browser not the database. It's only a file to the end user, never to the server. If you don't want to use it as a file, you don't. The decision is at the end point, not at the storage point.
This isn't like "if you add this cool application" kind of thing. This is "under the hood" interfaces to many databases today!
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@Dashrender said in Files in a LANLESS system:
@scottalanmiller said in Files in a LANLESS system:
@Dashrender said in Files in a LANLESS system:
@scottalanmiller said in Files in a LANLESS system:
@Dashrender said in Files in a LANLESS system:
@scottalanmiller said in Files in a LANLESS system:
@Dashrender said in Files in a LANLESS system:
@scottalanmiller let's assume that we get direct application access from Word/Writer into SP or NC, how do you send a link to someone else so they know they have access? How do you register that 'link' in some way so that the correct application launches when trying to open the link?
How do you do it today? Why would it need to change at all?
Paying particular attention to Gene's wording, there would be no more files, only data in a DB. In that case, to send the information via email would mean extracting that data into some kind of usable format then emailing it.
So the contents of the file are simply sent as a file.... that's all a file normally is, a database holding text directly on it with a label on it with the filename. So.... literally nothing changes here under the hood. There is no more or less extraction than before.
You were weren't talking about getting rid of docx files and xlsx files, etc?
Yup, and still am. No files, but that doesn't mean that you can't have a file "view".
But OneDrive, etc still store those things as objects, I don't think you can edit the 'Word.doc' file directly inside the DB, you need to send that object of data to Word to edit it.
As objects, not as files. I don't need to pull the files from OneDrive to edit them. I can talk to the database directly with MS Office 2013 or later, even the online version.
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@scottalanmiller said in Files in a LANLESS system:
@Dashrender said in Files in a LANLESS system:
@scottalanmiller said in Files in a LANLESS system:
@Dashrender said in Files in a LANLESS system:
@scottalanmiller said in Files in a LANLESS system:
@Dashrender said in Files in a LANLESS system:
@scottalanmiller said in Files in a LANLESS system:
@Dashrender said in Files in a LANLESS system:
@scottalanmiller let's assume that we get direct application access from Word/Writer into SP or NC, how do you send a link to someone else so they know they have access? How do you register that 'link' in some way so that the correct application launches when trying to open the link?
How do you do it today? Why would it need to change at all?
Paying particular attention to Gene's wording, there would be no more files, only data in a DB. In that case, to send the information via email would mean extracting that data into some kind of usable format then emailing it.
So the contents of the file are simply sent as a file.... that's all a file normally is, a database holding text directly on it with a label on it with the filename. So.... literally nothing changes here under the hood. There is no more or less extraction than before.
You were weren't talking about getting rid of docx files and xlsx files, etc?
Yup, and still am. No files, but that doesn't mean that you can't have a file "view".
But OneDrive, etc still store those things as objects, I don't think you can edit the 'Word.doc' file directly inside the DB, you need to send that object of data to Word to edit it.
As objects, not as files. I don't need to pull the files from OneDrive to edit them. I can talk to the database directly with MS Office 2013 or later, even the online version.
Yeah Office is a bad example because of the massive integration.
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@scottalanmiller said in Files in a LANLESS system:
With a document database and a RESTful interface, you can literally do things like this...
https://mysite/my_word_doc.docx
To get a file, but it is coming straight out of a database with no files. The "file" Is something that is actually created by the browser not the database. It's only a file to the end user, never to the server. If you don't want to use it as a file, you don't. The decision is at the end point, not at the storage point.
This isn't like "if you add this cool application" kind of thing. This is "under the hood" interfaces to many databases today!
Interesting - so you're saying that OneDrive works this way today? or at least SharePoint (ODfB) works this way today?
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@Dashrender said in Files in a LANLESS system:
@scottalanmiller said in Files in a LANLESS system:
@Dashrender said in Files in a LANLESS system:
@scottalanmiller said in Files in a LANLESS system:
@Dashrender said in Files in a LANLESS system:
@scottalanmiller said in Files in a LANLESS system:
@Dashrender said in Files in a LANLESS system:
@scottalanmiller said in Files in a LANLESS system:
@Dashrender said in Files in a LANLESS system:
@scottalanmiller let's assume that we get direct application access from Word/Writer into SP or NC, how do you send a link to someone else so they know they have access? How do you register that 'link' in some way so that the correct application launches when trying to open the link?
How do you do it today? Why would it need to change at all?
Paying particular attention to Gene's wording, there would be no more files, only data in a DB. In that case, to send the information via email would mean extracting that data into some kind of usable format then emailing it.
So the contents of the file are simply sent as a file.... that's all a file normally is, a database holding text directly on it with a label on it with the filename. So.... literally nothing changes here under the hood. There is no more or less extraction than before.
You were weren't talking about getting rid of docx files and xlsx files, etc?
Yup, and still am. No files, but that doesn't mean that you can't have a file "view".
But OneDrive, etc still store those things as objects, I don't think you can edit the 'Word.doc' file directly inside the DB, you need to send that object of data to Word to edit it.
As objects, not as files. I don't need to pull the files from OneDrive to edit them. I can talk to the database directly with MS Office 2013 or later, even the online version.
Yeah Office is a bad example because of the massive integration.
Or a good example because it shows how easily it can be done and how well people can't even tell.
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@Dashrender said in Files in a LANLESS system:
@scottalanmiller said in Files in a LANLESS system:
With a document database and a RESTful interface, you can literally do things like this...
https://mysite/my_word_doc.docx
To get a file, but it is coming straight out of a database with no files. The "file" Is something that is actually created by the browser not the database. It's only a file to the end user, never to the server. If you don't want to use it as a file, you don't. The decision is at the end point, not at the storage point.
This isn't like "if you add this cool application" kind of thing. This is "under the hood" interfaces to many databases today!
Interesting - so you're saying that OneDrive works this way today? or at least SharePoint (ODfB) works this way today?
You can never know exactly how it works, but very likely this is what it does. It is not efficient at all to use a file system and files for this stuff. SharePoint is a database so ODfB is definitely using SharePoint instead of the filesystem.
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@scottalanmiller said in Files in a LANLESS system:
@Dashrender said in Files in a LANLESS system:
@scottalanmiller said in Files in a LANLESS system:
@Dashrender said in Files in a LANLESS system:
@scottalanmiller said in Files in a LANLESS system:
@Dashrender said in Files in a LANLESS system:
@scottalanmiller said in Files in a LANLESS system:
@Dashrender said in Files in a LANLESS system:
@scottalanmiller said in Files in a LANLESS system:
@Dashrender said in Files in a LANLESS system:
@scottalanmiller let's assume that we get direct application access from Word/Writer into SP or NC, how do you send a link to someone else so they know they have access? How do you register that 'link' in some way so that the correct application launches when trying to open the link?
How do you do it today? Why would it need to change at all?
Paying particular attention to Gene's wording, there would be no more files, only data in a DB. In that case, to send the information via email would mean extracting that data into some kind of usable format then emailing it.
So the contents of the file are simply sent as a file.... that's all a file normally is, a database holding text directly on it with a label on it with the filename. So.... literally nothing changes here under the hood. There is no more or less extraction than before.
You were weren't talking about getting rid of docx files and xlsx files, etc?
Yup, and still am. No files, but that doesn't mean that you can't have a file "view".
But OneDrive, etc still store those things as objects, I don't think you can edit the 'Word.doc' file directly inside the DB, you need to send that object of data to Word to edit it.
As objects, not as files. I don't need to pull the files from OneDrive to edit them. I can talk to the database directly with MS Office 2013 or later, even the online version.
Yeah Office is a bad example because of the massive integration.
Or a good example because it shows how easily it can be done and how well people can't even tell.
LOL - yeah, but you are limited to only MS based files, All other files are just stored as objects in the DB.
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@Dashrender said in Files in a LANLESS system:
@scottalanmiller said in Files in a LANLESS system:
@Dashrender said in Files in a LANLESS system:
@scottalanmiller said in Files in a LANLESS system:
@Dashrender said in Files in a LANLESS system:
@scottalanmiller said in Files in a LANLESS system:
@Dashrender said in Files in a LANLESS system:
@scottalanmiller said in Files in a LANLESS system:
@Dashrender said in Files in a LANLESS system:
@scottalanmiller said in Files in a LANLESS system:
@Dashrender said in Files in a LANLESS system:
@scottalanmiller let's assume that we get direct application access from Word/Writer into SP or NC, how do you send a link to someone else so they know they have access? How do you register that 'link' in some way so that the correct application launches when trying to open the link?
How do you do it today? Why would it need to change at all?
Paying particular attention to Gene's wording, there would be no more files, only data in a DB. In that case, to send the information via email would mean extracting that data into some kind of usable format then emailing it.
So the contents of the file are simply sent as a file.... that's all a file normally is, a database holding text directly on it with a label on it with the filename. So.... literally nothing changes here under the hood. There is no more or less extraction than before.
You were weren't talking about getting rid of docx files and xlsx files, etc?
Yup, and still am. No files, but that doesn't mean that you can't have a file "view".
But OneDrive, etc still store those things as objects, I don't think you can edit the 'Word.doc' file directly inside the DB, you need to send that object of data to Word to edit it.
As objects, not as files. I don't need to pull the files from OneDrive to edit them. I can talk to the database directly with MS Office 2013 or later, even the online version.
Yeah Office is a bad example because of the massive integration.
Or a good example because it shows how easily it can be done and how well people can't even tell.
LOL - yeah, but you are limited to only MS based files, All other files are just stored as objects in the DB.
Are they? I'm not sure of that. But that's always going to be the case. File systems are for ad hoc, unplanned files. The real question should be... why do such files exist in your environment? When do you actually want ad hoc file types that you didn't expect?
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@scottalanmiller said in Files in a LANLESS system:
@Dashrender said in Files in a LANLESS system:
@scottalanmiller said in Files in a LANLESS system:
@Dashrender said in Files in a LANLESS system:
@scottalanmiller said in Files in a LANLESS system:
@Dashrender said in Files in a LANLESS system:
@scottalanmiller said in Files in a LANLESS system:
@Dashrender said in Files in a LANLESS system:
@scottalanmiller said in Files in a LANLESS system:
@Dashrender said in Files in a LANLESS system:
@scottalanmiller said in Files in a LANLESS system:
@Dashrender said in Files in a LANLESS system:
@scottalanmiller let's assume that we get direct application access from Word/Writer into SP or NC, how do you send a link to someone else so they know they have access? How do you register that 'link' in some way so that the correct application launches when trying to open the link?
How do you do it today? Why would it need to change at all?
Paying particular attention to Gene's wording, there would be no more files, only data in a DB. In that case, to send the information via email would mean extracting that data into some kind of usable format then emailing it.
So the contents of the file are simply sent as a file.... that's all a file normally is, a database holding text directly on it with a label on it with the filename. So.... literally nothing changes here under the hood. There is no more or less extraction than before.
You were weren't talking about getting rid of docx files and xlsx files, etc?
Yup, and still am. No files, but that doesn't mean that you can't have a file "view".
But OneDrive, etc still store those things as objects, I don't think you can edit the 'Word.doc' file directly inside the DB, you need to send that object of data to Word to edit it.
As objects, not as files. I don't need to pull the files from OneDrive to edit them. I can talk to the database directly with MS Office 2013 or later, even the online version.
Yeah Office is a bad example because of the massive integration.
Or a good example because it shows how easily it can be done and how well people can't even tell.
LOL - yeah, but you are limited to only MS based files, All other files are just stored as objects in the DB.
Are they? I'm not sure of that. But that's always going to be the case. File systems are for ad hoc, unplanned files. The real question should be... why do such files exist in your environment? When do you actually want ad hoc file types that you didn't expect?
Actually Sharepoint does not natively interface .doc files either. It only uses the new format .docx files in the manner you are saying.
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@JaredBusch said in Files in a LANLESS system:
@scottalanmiller said in Files in a LANLESS system:
@Dashrender said in Files in a LANLESS system:
@scottalanmiller said in Files in a LANLESS system:
@Dashrender said in Files in a LANLESS system:
@scottalanmiller said in Files in a LANLESS system:
@Dashrender said in Files in a LANLESS system:
@scottalanmiller said in Files in a LANLESS system:
@Dashrender said in Files in a LANLESS system:
@scottalanmiller said in Files in a LANLESS system:
@Dashrender said in Files in a LANLESS system:
@scottalanmiller said in Files in a LANLESS system:
@Dashrender said in Files in a LANLESS system:
@scottalanmiller let's assume that we get direct application access from Word/Writer into SP or NC, how do you send a link to someone else so they know they have access? How do you register that 'link' in some way so that the correct application launches when trying to open the link?
How do you do it today? Why would it need to change at all?
Paying particular attention to Gene's wording, there would be no more files, only data in a DB. In that case, to send the information via email would mean extracting that data into some kind of usable format then emailing it.
So the contents of the file are simply sent as a file.... that's all a file normally is, a database holding text directly on it with a label on it with the filename. So.... literally nothing changes here under the hood. There is no more or less extraction than before.
You were weren't talking about getting rid of docx files and xlsx files, etc?
Yup, and still am. No files, but that doesn't mean that you can't have a file "view".
But OneDrive, etc still store those things as objects, I don't think you can edit the 'Word.doc' file directly inside the DB, you need to send that object of data to Word to edit it.
As objects, not as files. I don't need to pull the files from OneDrive to edit them. I can talk to the database directly with MS Office 2013 or later, even the online version.
Yeah Office is a bad example because of the massive integration.
Or a good example because it shows how easily it can be done and how well people can't even tell.
LOL - yeah, but you are limited to only MS based files, All other files are just stored as objects in the DB.
Are they? I'm not sure of that. But that's always going to be the case. File systems are for ad hoc, unplanned files. The real question should be... why do such files exist in your environment? When do you actually want ad hoc file types that you didn't expect?
Actually Sharepoint does not natively interface .doc files either. It only uses the new format .docx files in the manner you are saying.
Don't I know it.. I was playing with SharePoint and damn if I didn't have all kinds of problems with DOC files.
