Display document name upon uploading the document in the editable grid

RE: Display document name upon uploading the document in the editable grid

tejpals0001 — Tue, 14 Jun 2022 19:06:17 GMT

thanks, its working fine

RE: Display document name upon uploading the document in the editable grid

anjup136 — Fri, 15 Mar 2019 11:01:00 GMT

Thanks Mike and Sriranjani. This helped me to crack this problem.

RE: Display document name upon uploading the document in the editable grid

Mike Schmitt — Thu, 14 Mar 2019 19:52:10 GMT

It looks like using this plugin would work for this purpose, though I would warn that it might not be officially supported functionality and might be subject to removal in the future. Another consideration is the fact that the plugin function mentioned here returns a plaintext blob including the document's full name with extension, so the designer would be responsible for building a parser to extract just the "name" portion (pre extension), since we can't set extensions on the Appian side.

If going this route, I would recommend at the very least encapsulating the above in a new expression rule which you will use everywhere that this needs to be handled, in such a way that if the functionality is ever changed (i.e. the plugin is updated and its data output is slightly different, etc), there will be a single place needing updating.

RE: Display document name upon uploading the document in the editable grid

sriranjanir — Wed, 13 Mar 2019 13:30:23 GMT

Hi Anju,

In one of the processes, I am getting the document name on file upload.
I have used fn!getcontentobjectdetailsbyid(ri!documentId) in the save into of fileupload component to achieve this.
Thanks.

RE: Display document name upon uploading the document in the editable grid

Mike Schmitt — Mon, 11 Mar 2019 19:43:16 GMT

It might be possible but I personally recommend you don't take this approach. Someday hopefully Appian will allow us to access the "fv!files" properties within the saveInto parameter of the document upload field [feature request], as opposed to just in the validations, but until then it's not doable without using some unsupported and risky functionality.

One way I've handled it in other cases, if the uploaded document's name must be user-editable at upload time, is to have a separate box that's optional and blank, which will override the uploaded document's name if provided.