Writing to a FIle in M-Files

Hi there, this type of use case is typically outside what's recommended for M-Files, however, it's possible to access the file via filepath so long as you have a view defined which that file is a part of... depending on the manipulation being performed you are likely going to consider and API driven approach which would likely require pulling the file out into a temporary file location, performing the updates, and then uploading the updated file back to M-Files as a new version.  How often does your application write to this file? Is this something which could be maintained locally while in use and then moved into M-files for more long term storage after these updated have been completed? 

I agree with Tom Humm - this sounds like something which you are probably going to need our APIs for.  Even if you could just "write to the file" - which is a perfectly reasonable request - M-Files would still want the whole check out/in process to ensure that nothing is lost.

The file is being written to daily.  Thanks for your reply.  I will look into the API approach.