Hi Experts
I want to fetch UUID of document,
Is there any function or way to extract UUID of document.
Please provide solution, if any
Thanks in advance
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What do you want to do with that UUID?
Hi , I want to export UUID in excel for a sack of backup.
Can you explain that in more detail? I am just curious.
Why not just use the document id instead?
Mathieu Drouin , I am creating a process in which I'm deleting the extra created documents(cause by failure of PM) from folder.
Process step - 1 : Generating an excel which includes 2 columns, request ID and document ID, So we have which request ID has which Documents extra
Step 2: Moving all those extra documents to a temporary folder by reading the same excel.
step 3: deleting the same temporary folder
But the point is: If somehow we moved a non extra document to temporary folder and it deleted with folder then we can't back it up (whatever the importance of document is).
So we have a plan, we export all the documents by adding them in package and while moving the documents to temporary folder we generate one more excel which have request ID, UUID.
So if this blunder happens (mentioned above), we can import the backup of documents which exported and read the excel which have UUID and restore the documents to their original folders as they were.
UUID is the only thing which will not change on the export and import.
If I go for document ID, it will be useless for us in this case.
What do you suggest ?
Create excel, read excel, move files, temporary folder ..... I am confused! Seriously!
I Appian, I do never manage document by storing them in folders just to delete them. I keep the document ID in process or the database and then such a mishap cannot happen.
But I am open to things I could not imagine.
It should work but it does seems like a convoluted process.
Why not back them up to some external storage (Sharepoint, S3 etc) and simply store external file id in an extra column in the table?
Mathieu Drouin It might be a convoluted process but I only have this way to do all this with safe side and storing file in some external storage, I can't say about this.