Can any body please let me know,how to find whether a folder exists with partic

RE: Can any body please let me know,how to find whether a folder exists with partic

Steven Miccile — Sat, 07 Dec 2013 01:06:48 GMT

Starting in Appian 7.2, document and folder id's are not reused if the object is deleted: forum.appian.com/.../Data_Types

RE: Can any body please let me know,how to find whether a folder exists with partic

Raviteja Varma Jampana — Fri, 06 Dec 2013 17:32:01 GMT

Thank you davidwi

RE: Can any body please let me know,how to find whether a folder exists with partic

Raviteja Varma Jampana — Fri, 06 Dec 2013 17:31:03 GMT

Thank you Shezle. It is working fine in case of true .but it is again throwing excption in case of invalid folder id

RE: Can any body please let me know,how to find whether a folder exists with partic

David Williams — Fri, 06 Dec 2013 14:20:12 GMT

Not sure if this is relevant, but I think folder id's are re-used along with document id's ... I believe they share the same object reference. This caused some headaches and lots of confusion until we discovered this!

So while you are checking if a folder has been deleted, it may have been deleted, but then re-used by something else.

You might want to get this verified by Appian though!

RE: Can any body please let me know,how to find whether a folder exists with partic

shelzle — Fri, 06 Dec 2013 13:59:59 GMT

When you modify the rule to check for the string "Folder" you can check for folders.

RE: Can any body please let me know,how to find whether a folder exists with partic

shelzle — Fri, 06 Dec 2013 13:56:53 GMT

This rule returns true if the id points to a valid document

=index(split(getcontentobjectdetailsbyid(ri!id), "Type: "), 2, "") = "Document"

Any better ideas are welcome :-)