![]() ![]() For these users cloud PDM on top of Dropbox can be "no brainier". The majority of companies that not using PDM these days are using Dropbox. Dropbox is an ideal environment to kick off your cloud PDM development experiments. Maybe your remember my blog post - How to evaluate PDM before it will ruin your personal productivity? Here is the thing - for most of cloud PDM developers, user experience is the biggest issue. Many companies don't want to put their data on Dropbox. Simplify - doesn't mean cloud PDM will ultimately relies on Dropbox. Another product referenced in the announcement is Picturelife. Dropbox developed reference application in the tutorial. In my view, this particular piece of Dropbox technology can simplify development of any cloud PDM system. You can ask me how is that related to cloud PDM? Good question. Your app can then use the standard delta method to see what changed and respond accordingly. The payload of the webhook is a list of user IDs who have changes. In the case of Dropbox, notifications get sent to your webhook URI every time a user of your app makes a file change. In general, a webhook is a way for an app developer to specify a URI to receive notifications based on some trigger. ![]() More explanations can be found in Dropbox blog - Announcing Dropbox webhooks: The functionality comes via a new "webhooks" API (application programming interface) for Dropbox, which lets developers set up real-time notifications for their Web apps whenever users modify a Dropbox file. Web developers can now configure apps to be notified immediately of changes that users make to their Dropbox files, taking some strain off Web servers and potentially giving end users a better experience. The following passage explains what service does: ![]() Navigate to the following Computerworld article to read more - Dropbox plays more nicely with Web apps. I've been reading about interesting functionality added to Dropbox- Webhooks. I don't know what is the number now, but my hunch - it is not going down. ![]() Regardless on what CAD and PDM vendors want, engineers are going to share files on Dropbox and similar file sharing services (Google Drive, One Drive, etc.) Do you remember my PLM cloud concerns and Dropbox reality for engineers post two years ago? 34% of people in engineering departments are using Dropbox to share data. ![]()
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