Disable document download link field in Read Only grid

RE: Disable document download link field in Read Only grid

Mike Schmitt — Tue, 08 Jun 2021 14:07:28 GMT

For the past several years at least, I have strongly recommended that developers not use a!linkField() ... for anything, really. Instead, use a!richTextDisplayField() which includes far more functionality and flexibility. Within a!richTextItem, you can dynamically set a link with a showWhen parameter, and control what the text says (and its formatting) for different scenarios. Pair this with functionality to check whether the doc ID is still valid (though I share Stefan's concern that you're deleting documents without updating the Database).

I forget (off the top of my head) whether there's an OOB function to check document existence based on ID, but one available plug-in is "Check Object Existence" which contains one simple rule that you pass an ID to and it returns TRUE or FALSE.

RE: Disable document download link field in Read Only grid

Stefan Helzle — Tue, 08 Jun 2021 08:46:10 GMT

The plugin content tools has a function getcontentobjectsdetailsbyid. That is at least one option. Why do you not update DB when deleting the documents?

RE: Disable document download link field in Read Only grid

Ankit Tewari — Tue, 08 Jun 2021 08:41:55 GMT

Thanks. But we are not deleting appianDocId from our db it will be exists all time in our db, but after one week the document will be automatically deleted from Appian Document folder.On that time we have a requirement that all those document which are not existed on Document folder those link will also disabled from grid.

RE: Disable document download link field in Read Only grid

Stefan Helzle — Tue, 08 Jun 2021 08:30:41 GMT

Add a showWhen to the link with a check like: "not(isnull(index(fv!row, "appianDocId", {})))"