RE: How to save documents in Filenet through Appian and also how to fetch them

Robert Shankin — Tue, 02 Jul 2019 19:22:47 GMT

Hi Bhanu -

A good place to start would be to explore what Web API's FileNet has available for these operations.
Also take a look at if FileNet exposes links that you could put into Appian to allow Appian users to download documents directly from FileNet.

Review our docs on Appian Integrations (for calling 3rd party web api's):
https://docs.appian.com/suite/help/19.2/Integration_Object.html

And Web API's (for receiving calls from 3rd party web service calls):
https://docs.appian.com/suite/help/19.2/Web_APIs.html

Technically - you will only be able to leverage Appian's document related functions on Appian documents. For example, Appian's document browser will only work on documents stored in Appian.

What I would encourage you to consider is that the documents should stay in Appian for any in-process work, or any recently completed work. This way users can interact with the full functionality that Appian has to offer. Then, for older work, you can transport documents from Appian to FileNet for long term archival and storage. If your application relies heavily on documents that are already going to be in FileNet, it might make sense to integrate for in process work. Otherwise, if the docs are originally being uploaded to Appian, or being generated in Appian - it's usually most efficient to work with the docs in Appian until you're ready to Archive.