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  • Author: Appian Corporation
  • Type: Plug-in (Function & Smart Service)
  • Support: This plug-in or utility is not supported by the author. The content is free to use with a licensed product, but it is made available as-is and Community supported.
  • Industry: All Industries
  • Compatible Version(s): 23.2
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  • Cost: Free
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Content Tools

Overview

These functions extend Appian content and offer document/folder search, directory listing, and the ability to get/set the searchable attribute of a folder.

Functions are designed for and only work on Appian content, not the local filesystem. All search functions assume the root folder and all subfolders are searchable. Search functions will not return results contained within non-searchable objects.

All functions use the serviceContext of the user account executing the expression at runtime.

Key Features & Functionality

Data Types

  • contentSecurityRoleMap: CDT that backs the returnContentRoleMap function

Smart Services

  • Copy Document (Change Extension)
  • Delete Document Version
  • Delete Folder Contents
  • Delete Files Older Than
  • Delete Files Created Before
  • Delete Multiple Documents
  • Remove Member From Folder Security
  • Inherit Security From Parent for Folder
  • Inherit Security from Parent for Document
  • Remove Member From KC Security
  • Delete Rule/Constant Versions
  • Set Folder Security
  • Create Document Version
  • Create expression rule
  • Update expression rule expression
  • Update expression rule parameters

Functions

  • getfoldersrequiringchangesapproval
  • getsubfoldersfromfolder
  • getdocumentsfromfolder
  • getdocumentinternalidsfromfolder
  • getfilesolderthandate: Get files older than a particular date
  • getfileslargerthansize: Get files larger than a particular size
  • finddocumentsbyname
  • getconstantorruleuuidbyname
  • findcontentbyattribute
  • getcontentdetailsbyuuid
  • getcontentdetailsbyinternalname
  • getcontentobjectdetailsbyid
  • getcontentobjectswithnumofversions: function to find rules or constants with a given number of versions. Useful to find out objects that can increase memory usage in the collaboration engine. See https://forum.appian.com/suite/help/16.3/kb/kb-1226.html
  • getcontentobjectrevisionhistorydetails: Retrieves the revision history of a content object formatted as "[version id, date created, date updated, size, author]"
  • getconstantsfromfolder
  • getconstantsbyname
  • setfoldersearchability
  • getfoldersearchability
  • getdownloadersfromgroup
  • returncontentrolemap
  • getprocessmodeldetailsbyuuid
  • getrulereferencebyname
  • generateuuid
Anonymous

  • Hi Team,

    We are using content functions plugin in our apps 

    com.appiancorp.cloud.plugins. contentfunctions - 1.1.2.jar (Last updated Feb 2 2018)
    We are upgrading our platform to New version 20.1. Can you please confirm  

    com.appiancorp.ps.plugins.contenttools-1.1.3.jar (Last updated Nov 8, 2019) is the replacement of content functions plugin as we didn't find any official statement on it.

    Thanks

  • in reply to nagashankarn0001

    Yes, this will continue to work. That being said I would recommend that you move over to the OOTB folder expression to pull out childDocuments.

  • Hi Team,


    we are preparing to upgrade our platform to New version 20.1 .we are using this ( content tools ) plugin & its functions ex : getdocumentsFromFolder() in our existing rules. Can you please confirm this plugin would support to 20.1 version or Can we get upgraded/replacement of this plugin

    Thanks

  • in reply to btravis

    Need to correct one point in my post .. Adding to Designers role corrects the issue were a folder no longer exists.   The use case where folder exists but user does not have access works as expected and we do get the PrivilegeException message returned.   

  • Hi,   I was hoping someone could help explain why this error is occurring when calling getcontentdetailsbyuuid on a folder UUID which a user has view access to the folder or the folder has been deleted.

      'getcontentdetailsbyuuid' [line 5]: The user [ATM_Developer] does not have sufficient privileges to perform the requested action. (APNX-1-4205-003)

    The above error only occurs for users who are not members of the Design group. If the user is a member of the designers group, however,  then the function returns either of these two messages depending on current state: 

    No object with this UUID has been found: PrivilegeException
    No object with this UUID has been found


    Is  being a member of the Designers group a requirement to leverage this function to get the desired results?   Or have a run into an Appian bug/or plugin in function bug? 

    All my testing in in appian cloud instance on 19.4.

  • I've gotta admit, the getprocessmodeldetailsbyuuid function (as well as similar ones) is not very user-friendly to make any sort of specific use of due to the results coming back in a big unorganized glob of text, as opposed to a nice dictionary or something. 

    Couldn't it at least return a JSON string, if it has to return a flat string?  Then we could convert it on the Appian side pretty easily, instead of having to do tedious manual parsing, which of course might break any time anything is added or changed in the function output.

  • in reply to Michael Chirlin

    If we are already using Custom Content Functions, and replace it with this plugin, will there be any impact?

  • Is there any way this can be enhanced to add a function that given a UUID it returns the application containers the object is part of?

  • If we want to deploy this plug in is the recommendation to remove the existing Content Details by UUID and Custom Content Functions Plug Ins first ? Presumably all the functions / smart services in those two plug ins have been replicated under this new Content Tools plug in ? 

  • The function list is not accurate, the v1.0.1 of this plugins does not include getconstantsbyname but includes the function FindFoldersByName.

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