Poll Filesystem Folder

RE: Poll Filesystem Folder

Mathieu Drouin — Thu, 06 Jul 2023 09:45:57 GMT

This used to be possible but no longer is.

stackoverflow.com/.../what-are-the-ways-to-make-an-html-link-open-a-folder

RE: Poll Filesystem Folder

Stefan Helzle — Thu, 06 Jul 2023 06:10:02 GMT

That is not something you can control out of Appian.

RE: Poll Filesystem Folder

soujanya B — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 20:37:15 GMT

How did you achieve this ?

RE: Poll Filesystem Folder

Tejal Trivedi — Mon, 20 Jan 2020 13:20:34 GMT

Hello Eduardo Fuentes

we have a requirement to open specific folder (probably a shared folder / windows explorer) from appian interface (link needs to be provided in the interface for that folder).

Could you please help us out resolve this issue ?

Thanks

Tejal

RE: Poll Filesystem Folder

Eduardo Fuentes — Thu, 05 Jan 2017 23:52:51 GMT

Appian does not have such Poll System Folder capability out of the box. I am assuming you are referring to the custom smart service "Poll Filesystem Folder" from forum.appian.com/.../ Filesystem Utilities

If that is the case, I can confirm, by looking at the code, that all the plug-in is doing is: it retrieves the full path, file name and date modified of every file in the given path. It does not transfer the documents anywhere, thus no encryption is required and it does not encrypt this three fields.

If you're referring to "Move To Collab" part of the same plug-in, that one does copy a file from disk to Appian but does NOT use encryption either.

If you need encryption use an SFTP server and a different plug-in: forum.appian.com/.../SFTP Smart Services Plug-in

Also keep in mind all components you download from forum.appian.com/.../all are provided as-is by the Forum community and are not part of the Appian Support's scope.

RE: Poll Filesystem Folder

timothyo — Thu, 05 Jan 2017 23:35:27 GMT

Our internal audit is asking if Appian and walk them through the build of the Poll Filesystem Folder. They want to understand the security and any encryptions used. Can we have a meeting to discuss with them please?

RE: Poll Filesystem Folder

Eduardo Fuentes — Fri, 18 Nov 2016 09:55:44 GMT

Not to my knowledge. You can check the source code though. It is inside the JAR in a src folder most likely.