https://community.appian.com/discussions/f/data/26153/folder-creation-and-accessWe have a business need to create folders to house documents. We plan to do this via a Process Model. In the future, we would need access these folders in order to save documents to them, and to retrieve documents from them. One way to do folder accessen-USTelligent Community 12https://community.appian.com/thread/102566?ContentTypeID=1Fri, 07 Oct 2022 05:07:50 GMTd3a83456-d57b-489c-a84c-4e8267bb592a:f7f4f9e4-5c48-4c36-b1b3-bb28c1bab71bviratyogi<p>Hi <a href="/members/rohity0003">rohity0003</a><br /><br />Storing Id is a better option, you can also try to save the UUID since it will remain unique throughout all environments.</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>https://community.appian.com/thread/102557?ContentTypeID=1Thu, 06 Oct 2022 18:36:38 GMTd3a83456-d57b-489c-a84c-4e8267bb592a:c1d3c23d-0735-4e15-9eb9-722b27e96891rohity0003<p>Thanks for summing it up for us Chris.</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>https://community.appian.com/thread/102556?ContentTypeID=1Thu, 06 Oct 2022 18:30:33 GMTd3a83456-d57b-489c-a84c-4e8267bb592a:380bb531-c0d4-4ead-bb78-5c62971ebeacChris<p>As folder names are not / do not have to be unique, and generally locating objects such as documents by name is not scalable (you will see performance issues as your size increases), we avoid using any &#39;name&#39; values to search these objects at all costs.</p> <p>We always use folder IDs (and doc IDs when necessary), access is controlled by business data in the interfaces, who should view or update the documents based on data or group association, and never give users any of the &#39;browser&#39; type components.</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>