Moving documents to existing folder issue

RE: Moving documents to existing folder issue

navinkumars — Sat, 02 Sep 2023 16:39:11 GMT

Thank you Mike. It's working fine now

RE: Moving documents to existing folder issue

Mike Schmitt — Sat, 02 Sep 2023 16:36:32 GMT

As Mathieu already mentioned - in Appian, a folder is stored as an ID (that is the only unique aspect of any given document folder, to put it simply). When you create a folder based on a particular person, you will need to store its ID (integer) into a place that's easy to look up later on - like a column on that person's database table row (if you don't have a database table to store data related to each employee, you will need to set one up). Then later on you can simply reference the folder by id after querying the database row for that person. The appian type of "folder" really just holds an integer, so you can cast between the types pretty freely.

RE: Moving documents to existing folder issue

Mathieu Drouin — Sat, 02 Sep 2023 12:27:11 GMT

You can do tofolder on a folder id if you stored it in the database in relation to your employee. Not the folder name (it is not unique)

RE: Moving documents to existing folder issue

navinkumars — Sat, 02 Sep 2023 12:24:04 GMT

But my task is to create a dynamic folder,like one folder for one employee then while updating i need to move documents to the same folder which has been created during the employee add process

RE: Moving documents to existing folder issue

Mathieu Drouin — Sat, 02 Sep 2023 12:15:35 GMT

I would suggest you create a constant for your folder and use that instead.