Invalid Function 'document'

RE: Invalid Function 'document'

fredericom — Tue, 14 Feb 2017 16:05:57 GMT

Thank for the useful inputs guys. Best Regards

RE: Invalid Function 'document'

Mike Schmitt — Tue, 14 Feb 2017 15:54:24 GMT

@Philb: I've had a chance to test in 17.1 after seeing someone claim it stopped working in another thread - it still seems to work the exact same way for me and the user who made that claim never followed up with any further detail when I asked. So for now it's probably not a concern.

RE: Invalid Function 'document'

PhilB — Tue, 14 Feb 2017 15:10:19 GMT

Just as a heads up, I've heard that the workaround suggested by venkatesh above no longer works on 17.1 - maybe worth testing though.

RE: Invalid Function 'document'

Mike Schmitt — Tue, 14 Feb 2017 12:56:06 GMT

@fredericom, backing up a little bit, you should be aware that you can't use document() to access properties for a just-uploaded file on a SAIL form because the uploaded document lives in a special temporary system folder which is not user-accessible except through a!fileUploadField. The "standard recommendation" from Appian is to verify file properties after submitting a form and seamlessly looping back onto the form again, as Reggie says above, because after form submit you have access to the actual document ID / properties.

Users have discovered a workaround similar to what Venkatesh suggests above - i.e. you pass the local variable containing the newly uploaded file back through a!fileUploadField to get certain Dot Properties that can tell you some information about it, namely filename and size.
However it is important to note that the uploaded document size readout this gives is *rendered as plaintext and abbreviated* - i.e. "5 kb", "2.3 mb", so a simple numeric operator will not work by itself. If one has critical need of doing size comparison on-form, you'd need to write a custom expression rule that takes different size text values and parses them to a standardized value (i.e. multiply out to get bytes for the various different suffixes), and live with dealing in approximate values at the end of the day.

RE: Invalid Function 'document'

venkateshamu — Tue, 14 Feb 2017 12:49:24 GMT

Hi fredericom, This may help you!!!

a!fileUploadField(
value: ri!doc,
saveInto: ri!doc,
validations:{
if(
a!fileUploadField(value:ri!doc).uploadedDocumentSize > 100 /*in KB's*/,
"Exceed maximum size",
""
)
}
)

RE: Invalid Function 'document'

reginaldm377 — Tue, 14 Feb 2017 12:08:33 GMT

Idk how practical this will sound to you, but you could psuedo submit the form after an upload and re-loop back into the form (in a way that is not noticeable to the user) so the document IDs are updated & become valid if it is imperative the validation is done right after upload.

Maybe another practitioner has a better solution.

RE: Invalid Function 'document'

fredericom — Tue, 14 Feb 2017 10:42:57 GMT

...!buttonLayout(
primaryButtons: {
a!buttonWidgetSubmit(
label: "Submeter",
style: "PRIMARY",
saveInto: {}
)
}

),
validations: {

}
)