Hi, I wanted to retrieve all the documents within a specific folder.

phanibabuk over 9 years ago

Hi,
I wanted to retrieve all the documents within a specific folder.

I see the following functions available but they don't help me.
findDocumentsByName
getDocumentsFromFolder (this returns all docs from the root folder.)
getSubfoldersFromFolder

I have a root/parent folder "A" which has "n" number of sub-folders.

Each of these sub-folders has "m" number of documents.

I wanted to pass the folder name (in this case just the sub-folder name) and get all the documents within that folder.

Is there a plug-in available that satisfies my requirement.

Any inputs please!!!!!

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vasanthah over 9 years ago +1

I think you can get all the documents even from sub folders if you use the getDocumentsFromFolder when you pass the recursive value as "true()", check this out in expression rule.

0 vasanthah over 9 years ago

I think you can get all the documents even from sub folders if you use the getDocumentsFromFolder when you pass the recursive value as "true()", check this out in expression rule.
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0 phanibabuk over 9 years ago

Yes. This returns from all sub-folders but I want from a specific one.
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0 phanibabuk over 9 years ago

I can achieve this by using the following:
=getdocumentsfromfolder(findfoldersbyname(false,riID,cons!consFolder),false)

Here, ri!ID is the folder name that I want to pass.

But look like "findfoldersbyname" is deprecated.

Any work-arounds this.
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0 ammireddys
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over 9 years ago

@Phani : getDocumentsFromFolder() would satisfy your requirement.
As you said if you want retrieve the documents from specific folder just pass folderId and recursiveSearch as false(). this gives only the documents from specific folder.

If you pass recursiveSearch as True(), it gives all the docs within sub-folders also.
Hope it helps!!
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0 vasanthah over 9 years ago

Just pass required folder ID where you need to fetch docs and "false()" value for recursive... It works
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0 ammireddys
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over 9 years ago

Hi Phani,
Can you try this once, it worked for me.
getdocumentsfromfolder(findfoldersbyname(false(),ri!folderName,ri!KC),false())
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0 phanibabuk over 9 years ago

Hi,
I already tried this and it worked.
However, it looks like findfoldersbyname is deprecated.

My root folder has thousands of sub-folders. In this case, how can I retrieve the folder id?
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