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RE: image

pedrob0002 — Mon, 27 Sep 2021 15:07:23 GMT

Thank you will save that somewhere

RE: image

pedrob0002 — Mon, 27 Sep 2021 15:06:52 GMT

My idea was that if the haspicture boolean is false then it would substitute the isnull funcion, if haspicture was true it would show the pictures saved, nonetheless i change the form to have a required picture and so theres no null values in imageId, but thank you

RE: image

Mike Schmitt — Mon, 27 Sep 2021 15:03:50 GMT

Honestly I'm not sure whether this handles any use cases not handled by something a little simpler - this is essentially our "isBlank()" rule currently in production, and it passes a long list of test cases incorporating basically every permutation I can think of...

or(
  isnull(ri!value),
  isnull(tostring(ri!value)),
  length({cast(runtimetypeof(ri!value), ri!value)}) = 0
)

RE: image

Stefan Helzle — Mon, 27 Sep 2021 15:03:34 GMT

Appian will not change the data types of fields in database. Simply drop the table and have Appian recreate it.

That boolean will not solve your problem. You need to check whether there is a valid value. Put my code into a separate expression and use it for null checks.

RE: image

pedrob0002 — Mon, 27 Sep 2021 14:39:47 GMT

I thought about addint a collumn to the cdt as a boolean validating if there are pictures uploaded, but then it says i need to update my data store manualy, I dont know if i'll screw it up by changing something

RE: image

pedrob0002 — Mon, 27 Sep 2021 14:37:21 GMT

the imageId is listed as a document and its an array in the cdt don't know if that helps

RE: image

pedrob0002 — Mon, 27 Sep 2021 14:35:14 GMT

Sorry I'm still new to Appian, couldnt understand what I'm suppose to do, can you simplify?

RE: image

Stefan Helzle — Mon, 27 Sep 2021 14:21:58 GMT

isnull wil typically not catch all variations of "there is no value". My approach, matured over many years, is this:

ri!value is of type "any"

if(
  isnull(ri!value),
  true,
  a!localVariables(
    local!typeNum: a!refreshVariable(
      value: runtimetypeof(ri!value),
      refreshAlways: true
    ),
    
    /* Strings */
    if(
      local!typeNum = 'type!{http://www.appian.com/ae/types/2009}Text',
      /* Ignore white space */
      len(trim(ri!value)) = 0,
      
    /* List of Variant */
    if(
      local!typeNum = 'type!{http://www.appian.com/ae/types/2009}Variant?list',
      all(fn!isnull, a!flatten(ri!value)),
      
    /* Lists */
    if(
      /* Try to take first item in list and cast it to a list of itself */
      /* then compare its datatype to the incoming data type */
      local!typeNum = runtimetypeof(cast(runtimetypeof({index(ri!value, 1, null)}), ri!value)),
      
      /* Flatten takes care of lists in lists in lists in ... */
      /* List has zero non-null items, length() already ignores null values*/
      length(a!flatten(ri!value)) = 0,

    /* DataSubsets */
    if(
      local!typeNum = 'type!{http://www.appian.com/ae/types/2009}DataSubset',
      if(
        ri!value.totalCount < 0, /* This is necessary in case fetchTotalCount=false */
        if(
          isnull(ri!value.data),
          true,
          length(ri!value.data) = 0
        ),
        ri!value.totalCount = 0
      ),

      /* No idea what this could be so it is considered to not be null */
      false
    ))))
  )
)

RE: image

pedrob0002 — Mon, 27 Sep 2021 13:59:05 GMT

I think its return a false boolean*