readexcelsheet function

RE: readexcelsheet function

bhargavip0001 — Sat, 13 Oct 2018 15:38:35 GMT

HI Sachin,
This is how i am doing now but just wanted to check weather i can do in the interface itself without moving to process model,
thank you

RE: readexcelsheet function

Sachin — Fri, 12 Oct 2018 11:47:08 GMT

Hi bhargavip0001 ,
I have tried it somehow it is not possible i think the smart service is not able to access the temporary document folder where the document is stored the other way around is, let the user upload the file and let him click on submit button after submit extract the data from the excel sheet and perform the validation in process model if some validation error occurs then redirect to form again with error message.

RE: readexcelsheet function

bhargavip0001 — Fri, 12 Oct 2018 10:56:03 GMT

Hi , can u tell me how to access that temporary file i couldn't find something like that in the link which u provided

RE: readexcelsheet function

santoshd378 — Fri, 12 Oct 2018 07:12:59 GMT

I think this won't work, still the form needs to be submitted( document needs to be saved in the directory)

RE: readexcelsheet function

Sachin — Thu, 11 Oct 2018 12:45:38 GMT

Hi bhargavip0001 ,

From 17.X version When a file is uploaded, the file component updates with a temporary Document representing the uploaded file. which has permanent document id and you can use that document id in the readexcelsheet for validation before form submission.

For more details follow this link

Regards,

Sachin

RE: readexcelsheet function

santoshd378 — Thu, 11 Oct 2018 12:14:42 GMT

You can also read the files uploaded by the user, but you need to submit the form, so that the file will be saved in the folder and do the rest of the things as said earlier.

RE: readexcelsheet function

bhargavip0001 — Thu, 11 Oct 2018 11:51:47 GMT

Hi Sachin,

thanq , but i was not knowing that i can read only documents which are saved in Appian

RE: readexcelsheet function

santoshd378 — Thu, 11 Oct 2018 11:24:04 GMT

Hi Bhargavi, The file need to be saved in Appian Doc Folder for using that in the readExcelSheet function. So make the button submit and mimic the same form in a different user input task with activity chaining in between them.

RE: readexcelsheet function

Shanmukha — Thu, 11 Oct 2018 11:18:24 GMT

Hi Bharghavi,

I think it is only read the documents which is already uploaded to Appian document. If you see the code of that particular plugin it will take the document from the appian document folder. If you just upload the document and it is not yet persist in the appian document folder then you can't read it.

RE: readexcelsheet function

bhargavip0001 — Thu, 11 Oct 2018 11:02:06 GMT

Hi Raghavendra,

That file will be uploaded by the user and i need to read the data and need to don some validations to that data.

RE: readexcelsheet function

Sachin — Thu, 11 Oct 2018 10:57:07 GMT

Hi bhargavii0001 ,

I have tried extracting the values from excel using readexcelsheet and saved into rule input.

Please find below code for reference

here ri!sampleTest is AnyType ruleinput

a!save(
              ri!sampleTest,
              readexcelsheet(
                excelDocument: todocument(
                  3970
                ),
                sheetNumber: 0,
                startRow: 0
              )
            )

The output structure of readexcelsheet is like

{
Success: boolean,
result: {
         Values: row1Values,
         values: row2Values
}
}

Regards,

Sachin

RE: readexcelsheet function

Shanmukha — Thu, 11 Oct 2018 10:40:44 GMT

Hi Bharghavi,

Could you please elaborate your scenario? Why you want to read the file in a!save(). does that file is already avilable in the document folder or is it just uploaded by user and not present in the appian document folder?