Get Document Id by Document name

Hi Dharsana (dharsanag39)  -

One way you could do this would be to create a docId-to-name reference table in the relational database.

• For example, as the documents are created in Appian you could record the docId and the name in a pair of db columns columns in one table.
• You could then connect the name back to the docId in the DB, and then retrieve the doc in Appian with that Id.

Accordingly, there are some caveats:

1. Synchronization between the document name in Appian and the document name in the database must be enforced; if the name changes in Appian and doesn't also change in the database the reference is broken
2. document names in Appian are not required to be unique (hence a unique document id or docId); if you've got multiple documents with the same name, you'll need to be prepared to process and array of document id's returned from your query.
3. there are probably more considerations, but that's good for now

Review documentation on the document() function here.  This function requires a docId to retrieve a document.

You will probably want to check out the Custom Content Plug-in, specifically the "findDocumentsByName" function.

Hi mike,

i need this function "findDocumentsByName".Can you Help me finiding this Plug in. couldn't open the link you have attached.

Hi Vinay, there is a plugin called "Content Tools" just deploy that plugin in your environment, you will get to use the above-mentioned function "findDocumentsByName".

You're replying to a VERY old comment.  These days the plug-in has migrated to be the Content Tools plug-in (as mentioned already by Tushar).  You can find this by navigating to the "App Market" tab here on Community and searching "Content Tools" - or if you are using a Cloud environment, simply go to your Admin Console's Plug-Ins tab and deploy the Content Tools plug-in from there.