We are using "Move Document" smart service to move one of our document

Mahesh Sanga over 9 years ago

We are using "Move Document" smart service to move one of our document from Temporary Documents folder to some other folder. It is working well if a destination Folder has some value. If destination folder is empty(we are assigning a PV to this smart service parameter) still the smart service is able to move the document to somewhere. But we are not sure where the document has been moved. Has anyone faced this issue before? Even document function returns nothing for "folderName" property. (We are certain that this document is somewhere but we are not sure where it has been moved)

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0 Eduardo Fuentes
Appian Employee
over 9 years ago

The plug-in comes with the source code; reviewing the source should help you figure out what happens under these circumstances.
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0 Eduardo Fuentes
Appian Employee
over 9 years ago

Or is it the out of the box one?
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0 Mahesh Sanga over 9 years ago

Thanks Eduardo, I am using the smart service under "Appian Smart Services" category as you can see in the attached screenshot.
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0 Eduardo Fuentes
Appian Employee
over 9 years ago

Looked into this in detail and:

1. I was able to reproduce the behavior
2. Confirmed the reason is the Long used to represent the Destination folder is defaulting to 0 since you're not assigning a value
3. Therefore the document is moving to folder 0 which is not a place you can access.

4. You can move the document back if you have the PV that has it stored, simply run the Move Document again without an empty Destination.

5. I recommend you add a check for empty PVs in your logic
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0 Eduardo Fuentes
Appian Employee
over 9 years ago

* Just to clarify, it moves it to the content object with id 0 which is the Personal and Teams Community but you can't have files directly there that's why you don't see it there.
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0 akshayan
Certified Lead Developer
over 9 years ago

Is the source code available for out of the box smart service?
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0 Eduardo Fuentes
Appian Employee
over 9 years ago

No, that's proprietary code I thought this user was talking about the Copy Document Custom Smart Service from the Shared Components
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0 Mahesh Sanga over 9 years ago

Eduardo, is it possible to raise a request to modify this smart service in future to include this validation?
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