I have a scenario to save documents into dynamic folders using tofolder function

RE: I have a scenario to save documents into dynamic folders using tofolder function

vinayp0002 — Mon, 13 May 2019 12:30:46 GMT

Thanks Stewart for the reply.
Folders are being created at an early stage and documents are getting uploaded at a later point of time into different folders based on criteria.

RE: I have a scenario to save documents into dynamic folders using tofolder function

Stewart Burchell — Mon, 13 May 2019 12:21:44 GMT

Hi. So, the confusion here on two levels. Firstly, yes, tofolder() DOES accept a parameter of 'Any Type' and allows for both Numbers (integers and Decimals) and Text. BUT: you need to be aware that whilst a Document's Id is unique, it's name is NOT. That is, you can have many folders with the same name in any given environment. So a function to return a handle to a folder can ONLY use the folder's unique Id (the same principle applies to documents and the todocument() function)

So, why does the function also accept Text as an input? I'm not sure, but both of the following return a folder object handle:

fn!tofolder(214372)
fn!tofolder("Folder:214372")

Frankly, I don't see the point of the latter - if you know the folder's Id is 214372 then the first is sufficient for your purposes.

So, back to the ORIGINAL problem: how do you create a new folder? You either do this in a Process Model with the Create Folder Smart Service, OR you use the equivalent function, which is a!createFolder(). Both of these are described here.

RE: I have a scenario to save documents into dynamic folders using tofolder function

vinayp0002 — Mon, 13 May 2019 11:08:50 GMT

Thanks Dude for the reply. But I see it is returning null if I pass a text input (which is an existing folder name).

RE: I have a scenario to save documents into dynamic folders using tofolder function

Dude — Mon, 13 May 2019 07:19:26 GMT

tofolder(): Converts a value to Folder

tofolder() just converts the given value to folder type. If you provide existing folder id, it checks the existing folders then returns the existing folders otherwise it will converts the given numbers to folder type with no id specified.

For example, tofolder({001,002}) 1 - [ID NOT FOUND] (Folder), 2 - [ID NOT FOUND] (Folder).

For text input it just coverts the provided text to folder type. For example tofolder({"Test1"}).

It converts Test1 text to folder as follows

1 - [ID NOT FOUND] (Folder).

RE: I have a scenario to save documents into dynamic folders using tofolder function

anjup136 — Mon, 13 May 2019 06:30:37 GMT

Hi vinay,

I am just curious to know, why dont we populate the folder name with static text while creating the folder dynamically and using the same process variable of type folder to store the documents?

Thanks,

Anju

RE: I have a scenario to save documents into dynamic folders using tofolder function

baji mekala — Mon, 13 May 2019 05:41:56 GMT

Hi vinay,

I know one syntax and i know its help to you.

Syntax:

"internalize(externalize(todocument(1)))"