Hello and welcome to our blog! What can we do for you? Are you looking for further technical information or step-by-step instructions to our products? Or would you like to read the latest news on mscrm-addons? Please feel free to browse our blog for detailed information and to share our posts! https://www.mscrm-addons.com/Bloghttps://www.mscrm-addons.com/Blog/PostId/10097/the-new-attachment-extractor-plugin-for-transparent-attachment-access*Features / News*,AttachmentExtractor (AE),AE 365Tue, 12 Jun 2018 11:31:19 GMT<p>AttachmentExtractor now features a new Plugin which streams the actual attachments instead of the SharePoint link on every file access.</p> <div class=" data-plugin-options="> <div class="lightbox" data-plugin-options="{'delegate': 'a', 'type': 'image', 'gallery': {'enabled': false}}"><a title="CRM Default " href="/Portals/0/Blog/The_new_AE_Plugin_for_transparent_attachment_access/Figure1_CRM_Default.png"><img alt="CRM Default" height="207" class="img-responsive" src="/Portals/0/Blog/The_new_AE_Plugin_for_transparent_attachment_access/Figure1_CRM_Default.png" width="374,5" /> </a></div> <div class="lightbox" data-plugin-options="{'delegate': 'a', 'type': 'image', 'gallery': {'enabled': false}}"><em>Figure 1: CRM Default<br /> <br /> <br /> </em></div> </div> <p>With older AttachmentExtractor versions, the attachment was moved to SharePoint and replaced with a link in CRM. When users or programs tried to access the attachments, they were only able to get a link file that pointed to the same new save location.&nbsp;</p> <div class=" data-plugin-options="> <div class="lightbox" data-plugin-options="{'delegate': 'a', 'type': 'image', 'gallery': {'enabled': false}}"><a title="Older version of CRM and AttachmentExtractor " href="/Portals/0/Blog/The_new_AE_Plugin_for_transparent_attachment_access/Figure2_CRM_AE_older_version.png"><img alt="Older version of CRM and AttachmentExtractor" height="147" class="img-responsive" src="/Portals/0/Blog/The_new_AE_Plugin_for_transparent_attachment_access/Figure2_CRM_AE_older_version.png" width="405" /> </a></div> <div class="lightbox" data-plugin-options="{'delegate': 'a', 'type': 'image', 'gallery': {'enabled': false}}"><em>Figure 2: Older versions of CRM and AttachmentExtractor</em></div> <p class="lightbox" data-plugin-options="{'delegate': 'a', 'type': 'image', 'gallery': {'enabled': false}}"><em>&nbsp;</em></p> <p class="lightbox" data-plugin-options="{'delegate': 'a', 'type': 'image', 'gallery': {'enabled': false}}"><em>With the new versions of AttachmentExtractor, the actual file is returned on file access, without&nbsp;having to save the file back to CRM. This means that end users and programs experience the file access as if the attachment was never extracted, while CRM database itself is still compact.&nbsp;</em></p> <div class="lightbox" data-plugin-options="{'delegate': 'a', 'type': 'image', 'gallery': {'enabled': false}}"><em><a title="igure 3: New versions 2017.8 onwards of CRM and AttachmentExtractor" href="http://www.mscrm-addons.com/Portals/0/Blog/The_new_AE_Plugin_for_transparent_attachment_access/Figure3_new_versions.png"><img alt="igure 3: New versions 2017.8 onwards of CRM and AttachmentExtractor" height="147" class="img-responsive" src="http://www.mscrm-addons.com/Portals/0/Blog/The_new_AE_Plugin_for_transparent_attachment_access/Figure3_new_versions.png" width="405" /></a></em></div> <div class="lightbox" data-plugin-options="{'delegate': 'a', 'type': 'image', 'gallery': {'enabled': false}}"><em>Figure 3: New versions 2017.8 onwards of CRM and AttachmentExtractor</em></div> <p><span style="font-size: 13px;"><br /> </span></p> <p class="lightbox" data-plugin-options="{'delegate': 'a', 'type': 'image', 'gallery': {'enabled': false}}"><em><span style="font-size: 13px;"> <span style="background-color: #fcfcfc; text-align: justify; color: #565656;"><strong>That&rsquo;s it!</strong>&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: #fcfcfc; text-align: justify;">We appreciate your feedback! Please share your thoughts by sending an email to&nbsp;</span><a href="mailto:support@mscrm-addons.com" style="background-color: #fcfcfc; text-align: justify;">support@mscrm-addons.com</a><span style="background-color: #fcfcfc; text-align: justify;">.</span></span><br /> </em></p> </div>10097