Blob is a technical term of attachments/documents.


Blob Management is meant for administrators to look into the attachment detail, and more information which are not available for normal users. This page is useful for troubleshooting.



Following are actions you can perform:

  • Encrypt. System can encrypt the attachment for security on database level. Even if someone download the data directly from database, he cannot use the data because of encryption. System will need additional seconds to download encrypted document.
  • Decrypt. System decrypt the attachment back to normal attachment.
  • Compress. System can perform compression to save space. It is using zip-compression. This compression is transparent and stored on database level. Developers does not need to uncompress the attachment, because the decompression runs automatically. System will need additional seconds to download compressed document.
  • Uncompress. System can change the compressed document to normal docoument.
  • Download Raw Data. This is mainly used for testing the compression or encryption. When downloading raw data, encrypted document cannot be read.
  • Sanitize. This tool is to sanitize document.