File Uploads in BBIS

Nick McGinnis
Nick McGinnis
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Hello, we have a form on BBIS that volunteers can fill out for a scholarship, which requires additional documentation to be attached. This form uses the AppFx Web Service to save the form to CRM. It worked great for files with a combined size of 10mb and less, but any larger is blocked by the server.

I started testing with the /Upload/FileUpload.ashx endpoint on the CRM server to upload the files from the client side. This worked great, except when I moved it to our hosted staging environment the client request was blocked by CORS (our local CRM and BBIS development is on the same server).

I was wondering if anyone else has used another method to allow file uploads from BBIS, either directly into CRM, or some other kind of cloud storage, and had any suggestions.

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  • Nick McGinnis
    Nick McGinnis
    Sixth Anniversary Kudos 1 Name Dropper Participant

    I was able to solve this with a custom handler. Instead of calling the UploadFile endpoint from the front end, I have it calling a custom handler, which forwards the file to UploadFile from the server without issue.

    I would still be interested to hear if anyone else has dealt with file uploads in BBIS in another way.

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