Download a document and save on a local at the same time?

RE: Download a document and save on a local at the same time?

pierpaolo.longobardi — Fri, 22 Jul 2022 15:36:26 GMT

Thank you everyone, since our need was to store on DB if a user has downloaded a certain file, we will use the function getdownloadersfromgroup() after submission of the task. I don't see any other options for now.

RE: Download a document and save on a local at the same time?

Mike Schmitt — Thu, 21 Jul 2022 18:50:26 GMT

agreed - if it were me, that'd be my first approach path for this, as well. in fact I just used that function yesterday (as a one-off) to determine whether a certain user had downloaded a certain file, lol.

RE: Download a document and save on a local at the same time?

Stefan Helzle — Thu, 21 Jul 2022 18:49:03 GMT

True, but depending on the use case, the plugin might be an option.

RE: Download a document and save on a local at the same time?

Mike Schmitt — Thu, 21 Jul 2022 18:47:45 GMT

[quote userid="59361" url="~/discussions/f/user-interface/25274/download-a-document-and-save-on-a-local-at-the-same-time/98182#98182"]Why the effort to somehow try to persist it somewhere.[/quote]

...because programmatically querying the system-back-end log files is poorly supported, not very flexible, and thus generally a giant pain?

RE: Download a document and save on a local at the same time?

Stefan Helzle — Thu, 21 Jul 2022 18:45:29 GMT

Hm ... I mean, the data is already there and waits for you to query it. Why the effort to somehow try to persist it somewhere.

BTW, I would be interested in the use case. pierpaolo.longobardi, can you help us?

RE: Download a document and save on a local at the same time?

deepakg271869 — Thu, 21 Jul 2022 18:34:58 GMT

Correct, For downloading the document we are using document download link in that we can not do database transactions. so, to do DB transactions we have to create dynamic link or Button action.

RE: Download a document and save on a local at the same time?

Mike Schmitt — Thu, 21 Jul 2022 17:48:24 GMT

If you can increase it to 2 clicks it gets quite a bit simpler (one click to show the download link, a second click to download). As Stefan mentioned, it's not possible with one click unless you use one of the workarounds he mentioned.

RE: Download a document and save on a local at the same time?

Stefan Helzle — Thu, 21 Jul 2022 17:31:50 GMT

Appian tracks who downloaded which file. I see two options.

- /audit/file_attachment_downloads.csv

- The function getdownloadersfromgroup from the content tools plugin.