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Another way to do so is to provide guidance to users so that as they consider how to upload resources, we steer them towards a particular technological solution that is helpful to us eg. Google spreadsheet with update trigger, document alerts in OneDrive for Business, macro in Excel spreadsheet. I don't know if this is possible, but complete automation would be if they could click something in HDX that creates a resource pointing to a spreadsheet in Google Drive with the trigger set up that opens automatically once they enter their Google credentials.
Number of Files Locally and Externally Hosted
| Type | Number of Resources | Percentage |
| File Store | 2,102 | 22% |
| CPS | 2,459 | 26% |
| HXL Proxy | 2,584 | 27% |
| ScraperWiki | 162 | 2% |
| Others | 2,261 | 24% |
| Total | 9,568 | 100% |
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Update frequency needs to be mandatory:
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