How to get the document ID from Appian documents.

RE: How to get the document ID from Appian documents.

Mike Schmitt — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 16:53:47 GMT

[quote userid="129442" url="~/discussions/f/process/30036/how-to-get-the-document-id-from-appian-documents/152211"]So on same button widget can we configure document download link ?[/quote]

No. It would still need to be displayed separately (and then clicked on by the user) in order to actually download the document. Buttons can not trigger the actual document download in any sense, it has to be a link.

RE: How to get the document ID from Appian documents.

muddasaniupenderreddyb0001 — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 14:34:15 GMT

On button widget -> in saveinto we can have startProcess and save result doc to local variable. So on same button widget can we configure document download link ? Can you provide screenshot if you have any? Thanks

RE: How to get the document ID from Appian documents.

dcao — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 14:12:03 GMT

yes. the interface's button widget can trigger a!startProcess and you can a!save the exported Excel document by using fv!processInfo.pv.excelDoc

RE: How to get the document ID from Appian documents.

muddasaniupenderreddyb0001 — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 10:15:41 GMT

Triggering the process model -> fetching document id -> passing to Download document link. All these happened on one click?

RE: How to get the document ID from Appian documents.

dcao — Wed, 14 Aug 2024 20:41:29 GMT

Thanks for the tip! I was unsure if the interface fv!process.info.pv... can pass back a process variable of type document. Just updated my interface and process model now

RE: How to get the document ID from Appian documents.

Stefan Helzle — Wed, 14 Aug 2024 20:09:02 GMT

Great to hear that. BTW, you do not need to cast to an integer and back to a document. Appian is extremely good in automatically converting values into the required type.

RE: How to get the document ID from Appian documents.

dcao — Wed, 14 Aug 2024 19:56:32 GMT

Thank you, your suggestion helped me achieve the user requirement of export to Excel and downloading from an interface on a Site. i used a!startProcess to trigger the process model asynchronously and it passes back the document ID where I got it by doing toInteger(pv!documentName) in the process model. Then in the interface, I did todocument(local!documentId)

RE: How to get the document ID from Appian documents.

Ravi Chandra — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 09:35:08 GMT

Thanks Stefan Helzle

RE: How to get the document ID from Appian documents.

Stefan Helzle — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 08:40:04 GMT

Appian references documents by their ID already. So you can pass a valid integer to functions that expect a document, and vice versa.

And you can use tointeger() or the document() function to turn a document into a number, or get the ID from a document.

docs.appian.com/.../fnc_scripting_document.html