Has anyone ever created a solution for a camera to...
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Has anyone ever created a solution for a camera to be hooked with your laptop/desktop and any images captured get stored in NS automatically? either the file cabinet or in a field on the form, Thanks in advance for any insights.
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t
That sounds like it will fill your file cabinet and empty your wallet in no time flat. What's the use case?
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s
Agreed, I would not use the filing cabinet for something like this, it will cost way too much.
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Thanks for responding, the use case is for a jewelry shop that does repairs and while taking in repairs or custom work they want to be able to take images of the product and store them on the record. Its a valid ask however how NS charges for space etc. I can imagine it becoming expensive. Maybe can use the camera to upload images to a shared cloud storage, and fetch the link to store in NS as a reference. Additional thoughts, let me know? thanks in advance,
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There are some external storage solutions that integrate with Netsuite so that the storage feels like an extension of NetSuite, but with much better pricing and more storage. Box is one such option I know of, there may be others available. For something like this, you’ll want to do an estimate of the # of images times the size to determine how much storage you’ll need. Uncompressed images can be quite large.
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we created a custom solution for this case. It need some DOM hacking by adding a custom file attachment tag to your record and once the file is triggered it has a API that API will convert and store your image in external storage in our case we stored in S3 bucket then getting the responding url and set to the custom record.