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
Hi,
as I told you in my previous post for my scenario I need a folder indexer plugin that will work together with the cloud object storage for Azure in order to have the image datase storage on a blob storage and some indexed dicom folders inside another blob storage. Do you think that it will be possible or, at least, do you think that it is a good feature to introduce in Orthanc?
Thank you very much.
Regards,
Lorenzo
You mean 2 blobs ? That’s not in our current plans.
It will, one day, be possible to do it but, I don’t think we are going to implement it unless someone funds it. I’m not going to use the Open collective budget for this.
Hi Alain, instead of having two separate blob storages, would it be possible to have two different blobs within the same blob storage (e.g., two folders), one dedicated to the database and another for the folder indexer? What do you think about this feature?
Regards.
Lorenzo
Why not … but that does not change my previous answer about the implementation.