download document on button click

RE: download document on button click

guiomarp0001 — Thu, 18 Mar 2021 12:11:46 GMT

Is there a solution for this matter? At the minute in order to acheive this, we are making the user click 2 times (one downloads the doc to appian, the other one downloads to the user computer).

RE: download document on button click

sikhivahans — Wed, 28 Sep 2016 14:18:30 GMT

Dynamic Link would allow you to run code that is associated with its saveInto but not more than that. I don't think there is an option with which the saveInto, as well as download, will go hand in hand.

RE: download document on button click

ramakg — Wed, 28 Sep 2016 14:01:17 GMT

Vijay, i tried with Dynamic link but, it is not prompting for download document. But I need both functionalities (image as soon as I click on image it should prompt for download and as well as I have to capture the event). any work around solution.

RE: download document on button click

vijayy700 — Wed, 28 Sep 2016 13:07:43 GMT

Agree with @sikhivahans

RE: download document on button click

sikhivahans — Wed, 28 Sep 2016 13:03:46 GMT

@ramakg It depends on what kind of Link Type you associate with 'Document Image'. If you use Dynamic Link with Document Image, then yes, it is possible to capture the image click event as we can write the code which captures the event in the 'saveInto' of Dynamic Link. But if you want to use Document Download Link, it's not possible as Document Download Link lacks 'saveInto' attribute.

RE: download document on button click

ramakg — Wed, 28 Sep 2016 12:50:37 GMT

thank you Vijay. is it possible to capture an image click event?

RE: download document on button click

vijayy700 — Mon, 26 Sep 2016 16:38:52 GMT

Do you mean to show image instead of plan link to download the file, Yes in that case use "a!documentImage(...)" function

a!documentImage(
document: todocument(1),
link: a!documentDownloadLink(
label: "sampleImage",
document: linktodocument(1,"sample")
)

use "document" property to show the image for enduser on which user will click
And then use "document: linktodocument(1,"sample")" property to link the document which will get down load once user clicks on the image

Hope this will help :)

RE: download document on button click

ramakg — Mon, 26 Sep 2016 16:23:25 GMT

@chandrasekharg, can we attach documentDownloadLink tag to image filed ?

RE: download document on button click

vijayy700 — Mon, 26 Sep 2016 16:12:51 GMT

You may try this, this is not exactly what you asked for but quite similar - You can add a button on your Form with appropriate text and clicking on that will lead to the next form (using activity chaining to next form) there you can have a link to download the file and after its completion back to the previous page (where the button was clicked)

RE: download document on button click

chandu — Mon, 26 Sep 2016 14:21:58 GMT

Hi Ramakg, how about using an Icon type image field some thing like which will display "down arrow" that points to documentDownloadLink, that gives some visual clue to end user so that user can download the document on clicking of that Image.

RE: download document on button click

sikhivahans — Mon, 26 Sep 2016 13:54:18 GMT

The above-mentioned approach still won't give a *prompt*which we see when we click a Document Link SAIL Component.

RE: download document on button click

ramakg — Mon, 26 Sep 2016 13:50:02 GMT

thanks for your quick response

RE: download document on button click

sahithip — Mon, 26 Sep 2016 12:55:41 GMT

Hi Rama,
If the button is submit then we can display one more form which contain the link to download the document.
If the document is not Submit, den we can display extra field which contains link to download the document on click of that button

RE: download document on button click

sikhivahans — Mon, 26 Sep 2016 12:52:56 GMT

@ramakg To the best of my knowledge, he SAIL Button Component isn't actually intended for doing so. Document Link SAIL Component is the one which is intended for achieving the purpose you are aiming at, and afaik SAIL Button Component isn't a viable option at least for now.