Move documents issue

Certified Senior Developer

I am trying to use the move documents smart service in  MNI mode to move multiple documents to a folder. It's  only moving the first document and the next documents are getting deleted from appian. I can't find them by name or document id anywhere in Appian.  When I try to find the document using getcontentobjectdetailsbyid function, it returns this response. 

  • "Content Object [Name: SamplePDF3.pdf, UUID: _a-0000e63c-719f-8000-9bb5-011c48011c48_148201, Parent: , Parent Id: 0, Type: Document, Created by: 00001, Created on: 2021-07-02 06:57:50.0, Last updated by: 00001, Last updated on: 2021-07-02 07:05:39.0, Latest version: 1, State: Active Published, Internal file name: accdocs3/7285/10005248.pdf]"(Text)
    But the document is not visible anywhere - old or new folders.

    Additionally this is only happening on version 21.1 and not on 21.2 

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      Certified Lead Developer
      in reply to deeptip

      I agree, I just happen to know (from dealing with this on my system recently) that it won't work.  However, the "move document" smart service (when fed the doc id manually) *will* work, meaning for any affected documents you can move them somewhere "safe" then interact with them somewhat normally again.

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      Certified Senior Developer
      in reply to Mike Schmitt

       I have noticed that while the move Document smart service does seem to move the document, the state stays Invactive Published instead of Active Published as indicated below..

      Content Object [Name: Plugins_Mural.png, UUID: _a-0000ea33-4618-8000-9bd0-011c48011c48_578763, Parent: CAT_DM_INFRASTRUCTURE_FOLDER, Parent Id: 17670, Type: Document, Created by: raj.jagannathan@icf.com, Created on: 2023-07-19 12:11:38.0, Last updated by: raj.jagannathan@icf.com, Last updated on: 2023-07-19 12:28:44.0, Latest version: 1, State: Invactive Published, Internal file name: N/A]

      Any suggestions on how to make this Active ?

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      Certified Lead Developer
      in reply to rajj2264
      State: Invactive Published

      This status is only seen, as far as I know, in documents that were uploaded in a!fileUploadField() but never properly submitted to the Appian FS (i.e. the user abandoned the form/task without invoking a Submit operation).

      In my experience none (or almost none) of the typical OOB file operation utilities (like 'document()', etc), will work on documents in such a state - the Content Object Details plug-in is the one main exception I know of.

      If I'm right, then I'm honestly surprised to hear you report that the Move Documents SS works on such a document, though I'll admit I haven't tried it.  Unfortunately I think once a document is "abandoned" and stuck in this state, there might not be a way to recover it.  Such documents should be treated as "abandoned in the appian upload queue purgatory" and discarded, I believe.