Regarding File Upload Control

RE: Regarding File Upload Control

Mike Schmitt — Fri, 20 Oct 2023 15:02:36 GMT

I assume your support case is lodged firmly in their backlog purgatory at this point?

RE: Regarding File Upload Control

Stefan Helzle — Fri, 20 Oct 2023 14:53:14 GMT

That's more than 2 years ago. I suggest to check the release notes for a fix. Why are you asking?

RE: Regarding File Upload Control

Paolo C — Fri, 20 Oct 2023 14:36:05 GMT

Have you received any update on this support case you submitted?

RE: Regarding File Upload Control

santhoshik0002 — Tue, 28 Jun 2022 09:17:26 GMT

It can be done using process model instead of handling it in cancel button.

In the process model add a "Delete Document" node and include the logic in XOR node to route the control to "Delete document" node when user click on cancel.

RE: Regarding File Upload Control

Mike Schmitt — Tue, 01 Jun 2021 14:40:18 GMT

Please let me know what response you get :)

RE: Regarding File Upload Control

Stefan Helzle — Tue, 01 Jun 2021 14:18:42 GMT

Case no. is 527349 in case you want to add your own ;-)

RE: Regarding File Upload Control

Mike Schmitt — Tue, 01 Jun 2021 14:16:51 GMT

I could've sworn I'd brought it up with them before and been told it's expected behavior. That said, it would be great if it could be "fixed" since it would alleviate the need for various "orphaned document" restrictions/cleanups I've had to implement here and there.

RE: Regarding File Upload Control

Stefan Helzle — Tue, 01 Jun 2021 14:12:49 GMT

I opened a support case. This is a bug! And since many years ...

RE: Regarding File Upload Control

Mike Schmitt — Tue, 01 Jun 2021 14:06:12 GMT

I assumed so - thanks :)

RE: Regarding File Upload Control

Shyam Bommakanti — Tue, 01 Jun 2021 14:05:16 GMT

The recent I tested is 21.1 and it's same behavior.

RE: Regarding File Upload Control

Mike Schmitt — Tue, 01 Jun 2021 13:57:32 GMT

[quote userid="59361" url="~/discussions/f/new-to-appian/21093/regarding-file-upload-control/82212#82212"]An option might be to clear the rule input which stores the document on clicking the submit button.[/quote]

nope. it will prevent the document ID from being passed into the process, but will not prevent the document from landing in the target folder. the only viable methods I've found to handle this are to either disable the "cancel" button, or to have the SAIL form track "newly uploaded" document IDs and pass them into an "orphaned doc IDs" list when Cancel is clicked, then have a special flow in the process to delete orphaned documents.

Edit: of course I replied before reading the rest of the thread. Did your tests eventually bear this out? In the (not very distant) past I've tested this extensively, but maybe not within the previous 2 or 3 Appian versions, in case anything's changed.

RE: Regarding File Upload Control

Shyam Bommakanti — Tue, 01 Jun 2021 12:52:03 GMT

21.1

RE: Regarding File Upload Control

Stefan Helzle — Tue, 01 Jun 2021 05:52:06 GMT

Agreed. Did another test and confirm that. Will raise a support case. Which Appian version do you work on?

RE: Regarding File Upload Control

Shyam Bommakanti — Mon, 31 May 2021 16:42:56 GMT

I tried setting to {} and null both result in uploading the file.

RE: Regarding File Upload Control

Stefan Helzle — Mon, 31 May 2021 16:38:45 GMT

Except of keyword syntax this is what I did as well.

It makes a lot of sense that it works. The saveInto of a submit button is evaluated after validations are OK and before the actual submit.

RE: Regarding File Upload Control

Shyam Bommakanti — Mon, 31 May 2021 16:32:11 GMT

That's interesting, I tested on 21.1 and it still uploaded the document to my target folder when I hit cancel.

Please can you share how you setting the variable to null.

RE: Regarding File Upload Control

Stefan Helzle — Mon, 31 May 2021 16:06:10 GMT

Just did a test. If you null documents, no document will be created in your target folder. The temporary document uploaded while you are on the form, will be taken care of by Appian.

RE: Regarding File Upload Control

Shyam Bommakanti — Mon, 31 May 2021 15:59:18 GMT

[quote userid="63279" url="~/discussions/f/new-to-appian/21093/regarding-file-upload-control"]Click Cancel [/quote]

If the Cancel button is submit=true, the document still gets uploaded even if you null the documents variable. One way to tackle it is to delete the uploaded documents in process when the user clicks cancel.

[quote userid="63279" url="~/discussions/f/new-to-appian/21093/regarding-file-upload-control"]Close the Tab[/quote]

This shouldn't upload the document, unless if you have something like wizard style form etc. In those cases you can delete these stale docs and terminate the process on a timer.

RE: Regarding File Upload Control

Stefan Helzle — Mon, 31 May 2021 13:00:51 GMT

The file is persisted when the user clicks a submit enabled button. An option might be to clear the rule input which stores the document on clicking the submit button.