Alpha Anywhere - Videos showing easy file upload/download to Amazon S3

Richard Rabins

UX Component	File Upload to Amazon S3	This video shows how you can configure the UX component to upload a file to Amazon S3 storage and then store the object name of the S3 object in a character field in the table to which the UX component is data bound.TIP: It is recommended that you watch these videos (Watch Video - Part 1 Watch Video - Part 2 ) which discuss uploading files to the Alpha Anywhere server (as opposed to Amazon S3) before watching this video. Watch Video - Part 1 Watch Video - Part 2 Date added: 2015-02-15
UX Component	File Download from Amazon S3	This video shows how you can use the File Download action in Action Javascript to download files that were previously uploaded to Amazon S3 storage.The video discusses the two different download modes - 'Indirect' (in which the Alpha Anywhere server retrieves the file from S3 and then sends it to the client) and the much more efficient 'Direct' mode (in which the file is downloaded to the client directly from Amazon S3 storage, thus placing minimal load on the Alpha Anywhere server). Watch Video - Part 1 Watch Video - Part 2 Date added: 2015-02-15

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Richard Rabins

Co-founder of Alpha Software, Richard Rabins focuses on strategy, sales, and marketing. Richard also served as CEO of SoftQuad International from 1997 to 2001, when it owned Alpha. In addition to his 30 years with the company, Richard played a key role as co-founder, and served as president and chairman of the Massachusetts Software Council (now the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council), the largest technology trade organization in Massachusetts. Prior to founding Alpha, Richard was a project leader and consultant with Information Resources, Inc. (IRI), and a management consultant with Management Decision Systems, Inc. Richard holds a master's degree in system dynamics from the Sloan School at MIT, and a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and master's degree in control engineering from University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. He has served on the boards of Silent Systems, Legacy Technology and O3B Networks, and is co-founder of Tubifi www.tubifi.com.

The Alpha platform is the only unified mobile and web app development and deployment environment with distinct “no-code” and “low-code” components. Using the Alpha TransForm no-code product, business users and developers can take full advantage of all the capabilities of the smartphone to turn any form into a mobile app in minutes, and power users can add advanced app functionality with Alpha TransForm's built-in programming language. IT developers can use the Alpha Anywhere low-code environment to develop complex web or mobile business apps from scratch, integrate data with existing systems of record and workflows (including data collected via Alpha TransForm), and add additional security or authentication requirements to protect corporate data.