Hi everybody,
I have my Orthanc image running on an Azure container instance. My data directory is inside an Azure Blob Storage. For this reason I’m using the Azure blob storage plugin and everything is working fine. Now I have another requirement. Some of the DICOM data can be arranged in a custom format inside specific folders in the blob storage (i.e. I could have DICOM folders identifying patients, and subfolders identifying studies). For those data, I would like that Orthanc can read and index them, without copying the data inside the predefined datastore directory. I know that for purposes like this, there is the File indexer plugin, but as I understood, it doesn’t work together with Azure blob storage. Any suggestion for performing an operation like that?
Tks in advance,
Lorenzo
Hi Lorenzo,
As of today, there are no solutions to achieve what you want to do.
However, I’m planning to release new versions of the Azure+AWS storage plugins in February-March once Orthanc 1.12.7 will be released.
Orthanc will then be able to support other directory structures. After that, I’ll be able to implement a “file adoption” feature that will allow the implementation of an “indexer like plugin” that would work with Azure and AWS storage plugins too.
So, you might have to wait a few months before it’s ready …
Best regards,
Alain.
Hi Alain,
thank you for the answer. I think that I can wait a few months …I’ll come back to you in March 
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Regards,
Lorenzo