issue with getdocumentsfromfolder function

garym over 7 years ago

Hi,
The getdocumentsfromfolder function seems straightforward but for some reason, it is not returning any documents when being used in one of our processes.
I have a sub-process which is being passed the folder in a pv called pv!requestFolder. I can see this folder in our documents tab and there are documents in it. This folder is called "SC-2016-00177". The sub-process calls the getdocumentsfromfolder function and saves the output into a pv of type documents (multiple).

getdocumentsfromfolder(
rootFolder : pv!requestFolder ,
recursiveSearch : true()
)

In the process, I can see that the value of the folder has been passed properly to a pv of type folder and the value is SC-2016-00177.
However, when the expression runs, it doesn't return the list of documents.
The security on the folder is correct.
Even when I try to run this in an expression rule, I can't get the list of documents to be retu...

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0 garym over 7 years ago

...rned. I have provided the expression rule screenshot.

Any help would be much appreciated?
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0 Poorna Guduri
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over 7 years ago

Hi gary, just a quick one - do you need a recursive search for the documents? If not, you can make use of the folder() function to fetch the documents inside the folder. Now, the folder() function has 2 new properties - documentChildren, folderChildren - with 16.x version.
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0 garym over 7 years ago

Hi Poornah, thanks for responding. I did try setting the recursiveSearch to false() and I still don't get the list of documents that I am expecting.
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0 Poorna Guduri
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over 7 years ago

I am not sure why is it causing an issue but what my suggestion is to make use of folder() function if at all you do not need a recursive search for the documents inside the target folder. Ex: folder(pv!targetFodlerId,"documentChildren")
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0 Ram
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over 7 years ago

Hi Gary,

The Custom Content Functions jar might be corrupted try to download the jar from forum and import it again.
For your reference i am proving the link to the Custom Content Functions shared component.

forum.appian.com/.../summary
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0 Poorna Guduri
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over 7 years ago

@gary, Give it a try as Ramesh suggested. But if it does not solve your problem, you may need to look into the logs to find if the log says something about the execution of this function.
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0 garym over 7 years ago

Thanks. I did try another using the expression rule on another folder with documents and it actually returned a list of documents. There must be something about this specific folder that it does not like.
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0 garym over 7 years ago

This might have something to do with it. If I try to click on any of the documents in the folder, I get an message saying "This document is pending approval".
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0 Poorna Guduri
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over 7 years ago

Ah.. that make sense. The document(s) is/are not readily available to make use of. But I am curious to know why this pending approval is coming?
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0 Ram
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over 7 years ago

Hi Gary,

I think this forum post might help you on this.
forum.appian.com/.../e-220820
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