Hi everyone,
I'm working on a Robotic Task in Appian RPA that performs the following steps:
Currently, after downloading the file, the robot uses Upload Document to upload it to Appian as a Document.
My question is:
Is there a way to pass the downloaded file directly to the process model without using Upload Document?
In other words, I’d like to avoid explicitly uploading the file to Appian and see if it’s possible to return it directly to the process model as a file in memory or temporary file reference using the output data tab of the robotic task.
Has anyone dealt with a similar scenario? Thanks in advance for any suggestions!
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Appian does not work with files in memory. Why would you want to avoid uploading that file?
Hello Stefan,
thanks for your quick reply. For our purposes, it is not necessary to upload the file to Appian, so we wanted to avoid both unnecessary storage usage on Appian (I’m aware that the file can also be deleted in the process model using the smart service) and extra actions in the robotic task. So, I was wondering if there’s a way to access the file in the process model without uploading it.