We're trying to send documents to alfresco using the file upload component i

@alexanderc I might be wrong, but AFAIK until and unless the form is submitted, local!appianDocument doesn't evaluate to a valid document object in Appian. Until it evaluates to a valid document object (which happens after form submission), you can't use it in the connector function.

Just adding to the previous response, you should be able to use the file upload if you place it on a previous form, since after the file upload form is submitted the document will be available to send.

@alexanderc The very first point under 'Notes' section at https://forum.appian.com/suite/help/7.9/SAIL_Components.html#FileUpload describes this behavior. So you may want to probably think of an alternative for doing so (for instance, as said by Tom Ryan), but should be after form submission.

Thank you Tom and Skhivahans. So for me to upload a document to the content management system, I require the user to perform a two step process. I'd like to avoid that at all cost. Our users plan to upload several documents and having to make them do it twice seems unreasonable. Is there another way to achieve this?

You should be able to move the logic to upload the document to alfresco into a rule/script task, and then call this in the process after the documents have been uploaded to Appian.

we tried to move the logic to a script task but when adding it to a script task, we are unable to use cmiCopyDocumentFromAppian since it returns a writer that needs to be used in a bind function. From my understanding, Bind can only be used in a SAIL UI. Should I be consider creating custom smart services?

@alexanderc Prior to creation, it would be worth going through the shared components once.

And regarding the execution of the connector function - true, to the best of my knowledge, invoking it can be done from saveInto attribute of a SAIL component.

thank you - that helps clarify things. I looked through the shared components but there doesn't seem to be any smart services for CMIS.