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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="https://community.appian.com/cfs-file/__key/system/syndication/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>fileupload duplicate check</title><link>https://community.appian.com/discussions/f/user-interface/26908/fileupload-duplicate-check</link><description>Hi Alll, 
 I have a fileupload control allows multiple files to upload. I should write a validation should not allow duplicate file names uploaded and should not be there in database too. 
 Does anyone had this situation. Your thoughts will highly help</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>Telligent Community 12</generator><item><title>RE: fileupload duplicate check</title><link>https://community.appian.com/thread/105707?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Sun, 18 Dec 2022 16:01:44 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d3a83456-d57b-489c-a84c-4e8267bb592a:2e712ea8-aee8-46ed-9d6e-e28eaf246195</guid><dc:creator>ujjwalr0002</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Hi, Check this out&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="/discussions/f/general/25169/how-to-restrict-uploading-of-duplicate-files-in-appian-interface"&gt;https://community.appian.com/discussions/f/general/25169/how-to-restrict-uploading-of-duplicate-files-in-appian-interface&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: fileupload duplicate check</title><link>https://community.appian.com/thread/105706?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Sun, 18 Dec 2022 13:45:41 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d3a83456-d57b-489c-a84c-4e8267bb592a:9ebad18b-2d2a-4dee-8666-1e554f78a04d</guid><dc:creator>Rainfall</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;you can save the file names in a rule input (check the array box).&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;check if any matches occur, try looking at the array functions in documentation to see which one works for you. to check in the db, you can create a QE which returns the file name column and compare it with your values.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>