Folder in appian()

RE: Folder in appian()

jameli0507 — Sun, 12 Mar 2023 22:31:09 GMT

well it worked thank you

RE: Folder in appian()

Stefan Helzle — Sun, 12 Mar 2023 09:03:53 GMT

When creating an API that should return lists, you always have to implement a paging mechanism to reduce the volume of transported data.

In my applications, I always store some document metadata to the DB. This would make building an API very simple as I can query the data from DB. Not sure whether that would work for you.

There are some plugins with alternative implementations of getting documents from folders. Did you try that way?

RE: Folder in appian()

Richard Michaelis — Sat, 11 Mar 2023 21:41:18 GMT

1000 is sadly often times the magic appian number. e.g. Task instances or in the case for the folder function.
"The documentChildren and folderChildren properties return up to the first 1000 documents or folders, respectively, that are direct children of the selected folder. Results are returned in alphabetical order by name."
from
https://docs.appian.com/suite/help/23.1/fnc_scripting_folder.html

the questions is: why do you need more for retrieving the right document?
wouldn't work a folder structure like per week/per month?