Integration with a Document Management Tool

[sreeramachandramurthy]

Full disclosure before I float this thought - I self hosted healthlog for 3 days in my homelab and very much a "noob" for this application. The requirement might already be implemented and I may be following the wrong approch. Please let me know.

While I am adding my documents, I noticed I am re-uploading them again in healthlog. These documents are already stored, organised and indexed in paperless-ngx (another awesome self hosted document management tool). Is there a possibilty that healthlog can reference / point to these documents through https url links? Everything else remains the same - previews, title, date, type will be still entered in healthlog. Just the file will point to a URL from a different application rather being uploaded again.

Why this matters to me - I have around 1250 MB of health related documents stored in paperless-ngx. I have to re-upload them again occupying another 1250 MB of disk space.

Is this possible?

[MBombeck]

@sreeramachandramurthy no wrong approach on your side, and not a noob question. What you describe is simply not possible today: HealthLog keeps every document itself, encrypted in its own database, and there is no interface to Paperless-ngx. The preview, the text extraction, the lab import and the doctor report all read from that copy, so a link in place of the file would take those with it.

It could be done, and I like the idea. Paperless has a clean API, so a later version could reference a document there and fetch it when something needs the bytes, or Paperless could announce new documents through one of its workflow webhooks. I have put it on the ideas list.

Honest answer on timing: not soon. Right now I am concentrating on making the existing modules solid rather than adding new ones, and on onboarding: different paths into the app depending on what someone needs, so the features are easier to find. When the document module gets its next round, this is on the list. Thanks for taking the time to write it up, and for the three days in the homelab.

[sreeramachandramurthy]

@MBombeck - thank you for reviewing and glad you like the idea. I am hopefull this idea might align with your roadmap.

I am in no hurry and will be patiently waiting for this feature to be shipped in the future.

Thank You once again for your prompt respone!