Moving Data
The second portion of the managing data phase is moving the data. T
his process involves moving your raw data into the applications database from which it can be accessed after
- Setup upload page
- Set file upload restrictions beforehand
- Upload raw data onto web server to be stored and accessed at a later point
- Upload times for large files.
- Ability to distinguish between file types
Here is how we completed this:
Issues we ran into at this phase:
This section contains a breakdown of how we completed this phase.
- We ran into a lot of issues deciding how we were going to move the data onto the file server. The initial idea was to have a light box element that we would add a button and upload that onto the server. however, because the post request had to be done on a separate page. We decided to make a separate page designated for uploading. and where able to successfully move the data onto the file server.
Here is a summary of what we could do next time:
- In the future we would prefer to find another way to upload the files without having the user to be redirected onto a different page.