Concerning the Download DataSubset Plugin, can someone please explain why cloud

John Stretton over 9 years ago

Concerning the Download DataSubset Plugin, can someone please explain why cloud customers are instructed to use getdatasubsetdownloadlinkfromprocess(), while on-premise customers are supposed to use getdatasubsetdownloadlinkfromrule()? My company's installation is currently on-premise, but if we move to a cloud installation will I need to change all my interfaces that use getdatasubsetdownloadlinkfromrule()?

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0 Eduardo Fuentes
Appian Employee
over 9 years ago

Looking at the source code I see that the one for On-Premise is using private APIs (com.appiancorp.core.*). Since private APIs are subject to change without previous notice, we discourage their use in Cloud environments to guarantee the components will continue to work across versions/upgrades.
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0 John Stretton over 9 years ago

Thanks, Eduardo. Do you know if there are any plans to introduce this kind of Excel export functionality in a future release so that a plug-in would no longer be required?
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0 Eduardo Fuentes
Appian Employee
over 9 years ago

That's correct. The initial phase of this feature is the template to export data to CSV that comes with the interface designer when you click "Create New Interface"
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0 John Stretton over 9 years ago

Ooh, that's interesting. Was that feature released with 16.1?
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0 Colton Beck over 9 years ago

I'm interested in this as well. Has this feature been roadmapped for an upcoming release yet, or is it still just part of the product backlog?
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0 Eduardo Fuentes
Appian Employee
over 9 years ago

The template is being there for a while, since the introduction of the Web API in 7.9
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0 John Stretton over 9 years ago

I don't see any template to export data to CSV, Eduardo. I've looked for it when creating a new interface from both the /designer and /design environments. Perhaps you could give more detailed instructions. I'm on 7.11.
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0 Eduardo Fuentes
Appian Employee
over 9 years ago

My bad, just navigate to /suite/design/webapi and you'll the template there. See attached web_api_templates.png.
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0 John Stretton over 9 years ago

Wow, this is a much cleaner way to do exports. Thanks so much, Eduardo. Tip for all: if you're exporting a list of text data that may contain commas, wrap each item in the list in double quotes to ensure that all of the text in that list stays in a single column.
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