Rich Text Item link property to use two services simultaneously

RE: Rich Text Item link property to use two services simultaneously

Mike Schmitt — Tue, 18 Jan 2022 15:03:47 GMT

[quote userid="62731" url="~/discussions/f/user-interface/23459/rich-text-item-link-property-to-use-two-services-simultaneously/89880#89880"]But i am not able to find a service to clean the contents of that folder[/quote]

You merely need the "delete document" smart service in a process model...

That is what I was trying to suggest above:

[quote userid="50400" url="~/discussions/f/user-interface/23459/rich-text-item-link-property-to-use-two-services-simultaneously/89879#89879"]Alternatively you could build a whole separate process model which runs nightly, gets all documents in the folder, and deletes documents older than X days for example. [/quote]

To clarify, in the first node you'd use a rule to grab all documents from the folder (since it looks as if they're all stored in the same folder). Then loop over all the documents and return only documents older than your chosen threshold, to be stored in a PV array. Then loop over the "delete document" smart service for each of those document IDs.

RE: Rich Text Item link property to use two services simultaneously

saifalikhan13 — Tue, 18 Jan 2022 14:58:20 GMT

This CSV is genereted by the interface code itself, data source is view
I created the PM, for implementing the cleanup
But i am not able to find a service to clean the contents of that folder
I know to set a auto timer, but not able to get the right service to delete the created csv files in the application at the backend

RE: Rich Text Item link property to use two services simultaneously

Mike Schmitt — Tue, 18 Jan 2022 14:55:12 GMT

Are the CSVs generated by a process model? If so, you could put a timer node at the end of the process which, after it expires, deletes all documents generated in that model. Alternatively you could build a whole separate process model which runs nightly, gets all documents in the folder, and deletes documents older than X days for example. The choices are relatively limitless here depending on your needs.

RE: Rich Text Item link property to use two services simultaneously

Harshit Bumb (Appyzie) — Tue, 18 Jan 2022 14:55:05 GMT

Oh yes. This is a plug-in built by Appian itself. You can find it here - community.appian.com/.../content-tools

RE: Rich Text Item link property to use two services simultaneously

saifalikhan13 — Tue, 18 Jan 2022 14:53:18 GMT

Is this an externally installed service?
I am not able to see this in my default process model items

RE: Rich Text Item link property to use two services simultaneously

saifalikhan13 — Tue, 18 Jan 2022 14:51:38 GMT

Let me explain you through the interface,

The above interface is before i click search
Now, I click search and download:

There will be a rich text to download the generated csv.

As you can see above, in the backend, the folder in which i am pointing to, contains all the csv files, which will pile up one day and slow down the system.
So, I want a solution to delete the contents of this folder after 1 day of the creation of the file.
I am creating this csv from a database view as a source.

RE: Rich Text Item link property to use two services simultaneously

Mike Schmitt — Tue, 18 Jan 2022 14:50:44 GMT

Process models can be built to suit this need pretty easily.

RE: Rich Text Item link property to use two services simultaneously

Harshit Bumb (Appyzie) — Tue, 18 Jan 2022 14:50:39 GMT

You can use this maybe.

RE: Rich Text Item link property to use two services simultaneously

saifalikhan13 — Tue, 18 Jan 2022 14:46:36 GMT

Is there any service that we can schedule to just clean up the contents of a folder?

RE: Rich Text Item link property to use two services simultaneously

saifalikhan13 — Tue, 18 Jan 2022 14:46:11 GMT

How to run the scheduler if i dont have the document ids?
Can I run the scheduler pointing to the folder constant?
This is the folder that i want not to pile up:

RE: Rich Text Item link property to use two services simultaneously

Mike Schmitt — Tue, 18 Jan 2022 14:45:44 GMT

Where/when/how is your Export CSV generated? One trick I've used in my implementations, particularly for on-demand generated documents, is to have a timer node after the generation node, lasting several hours, and after it expires the generated file is deleted. The users are warned in the UI that they have a relatively limited amount of time to download the exported file.

If the ones you're dealing with are generated automatically (i.e. overnight) then you could potentially implement a 2-click solution. I.E. at first the download link could be grayed out and the user sees a separate link next to it saying "Click to mark as seen and enable download"; that click would start a process that can delete the document after a (long) timer has expired, and after that click has been completed, the download link can be enabled for the user.

RE: Rich Text Item link property to use two services simultaneously

Harshit Bumb (Appyzie) — Tue, 18 Jan 2022 14:39:54 GMT

Hi there,

You cannot start two processes/services with a single click.
The closest solution to your problem can be a scheduler that runs overnight to clean the documents from the folder. And then you can keep using the link to just download the document and leave the cleaning on the scheduler process.