Capture the File path present in Local Machine

RE: Capture the File path present in Local Machine

harshav — Tue, 06 Mar 2018 09:36:12 GMT

Thanks for the reply Naveen,

I understand that there is no out of the box available too...thank you :)

RE: Capture the File path present in Local Machine

naveenp878 — Tue, 06 Mar 2018 09:02:40 GMT

Hi Harsha,

If I understand correctly, perhaps you are looking very similar to the file listener concepts from Java. i.e., watch a specific directory from the ftp server and if file persists then use the file location or file content for some business benefit. If this is the case , we don't have file listener concept OOTB in Appian. However your requirement sounds different and is not something close to this as you are looking at user local machine directory instead some server standard directory. This means you are wishing Appian to search the client machine directories (where ever user logs in) and find the file. As per me it is not possible to do in Appian and I am afraid we may not achieve this particular requirement at the moment.

Thanks

RE: Capture the File path present in Local Machine

harshav — Tue, 06 Mar 2018 08:37:17 GMT

Thanks for the reply Robert,

My need is to capture the file path of the document in the user's local machine and send it to the integration layer, to perform some actions which are required as per business. I was also thinking the pasting of the file path but in this case there would be so many issues raising up. so not really allowing the user to update the file path. system has to do it...

RE: Capture the File path present in Local Machine

Robert Shankin — Mon, 05 Mar 2018 23:34:16 GMT

Hi Harsha -

Users can always paste in the path, but there's nothing out of the box that's going to discover and persist it automatically.

What's your use case?

Are you planning to suppress this on mobile using new mobile awareness functions, or would you leave the functionality in place in on mobile?