I am trying to use the tofolder() and toknowledgecenter() functions and they don

RE: I am trying to use the tofolder() and toknowledgecenter() functions and they don

lesliem — Fri, 11 Apr 2014 01:34:33 GMT

You are correct, I can do all of that as a work around. But to make the process more robust I would like to look for a folder to see if it is already created within a named folder and make the process generic enough that it wouldn't have to do a lookup in a table to find the folder id. And I would rather not rely on the deployment team to update constants in production. And if folders get deleted and/or recreated within Appian and then an ID is looked up that no longer exists that will cause errors within the process. But if the process can look up the folder names they can either be used or created without an error. The tofolder() function indicates I can pass in any type for the value to be converted to a folder, but doesn't appear to be correct.

RE: I am trying to use the tofolder() and toknowledgecenter() functions and they don

Steven Miccile — Thu, 10 Apr 2014 19:08:21 GMT

Please explain your use case. If the knowledge center is created in process as part of application data, the knowledge center ID can be stored in the database for retrieval later. If the knowledge center is static, such as a "System Files" knowledge center, you can create a constant of type knowledge center.

RE: I am trying to use the tofolder() and toknowledgecenter() functions and they don

lesliem — Thu, 10 Apr 2014 18:45:57 GMT

But why wouldn't the function give me back all of the knowledge centers with that name. And if you are promoting code to other environments using the knowledge center id is not promotable.

RE: I am trying to use the tofolder() and toknowledgecenter() functions and they don

jesse.triplett — Thu, 10 Apr 2014 18:38:27 GMT

I believe this is intended since knowledge center names are not unique.