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Mark
New Contributor II
4 years ago
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Is there a way to generate Excel files and not write them to disk?

I have and Excel Formatter and a Rest Post Snap. I want to send the Excel File in the Rest Post Snap. Why do I have to write the Excel file to disk first? Can I create the Excel file in memory and...
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    SpiroTaleski
    4 years ago

    @Mark

    You can send the binary content(file) in the HTTP entity field of the REST Post snap also:

    Rest Post Snap can get the content of the file from the upstream snap, without storing the file.

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SpiroTaleski
Valued Contributor
4 years ago

@Mark

You can save the file on SLDB first, and then reference the file in REST POST Single File Upload option.

REST Post

BR
Spiro Taleski