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sharathp0003
January 24, 2022
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file upload without Form submission?

  • January 24, 2022
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Hi All,

I have a requirement to upload attachments to a target folder location and assign them before perform submit on UI screen. Is there ant way I can achieve this?

Thanks in advannce.

26 replies

stewart.burchell
stewart.burchell
January 24, 2022

I'm not sure what you mean by "...and assign them..." but, no, in the latest version of Appian you must submit the form before the document is saved in the target folder.

This doesn't mean to say you can't achieve what you want to achieve some other way.

mikes0011
mikes0011
Brainy
January 24, 2022

Agreed with Stewart, what do you mean by "assign them"?

The user will need to perform a Submit click - either button submit, or a!submitLink - but this does not mean that they need to "leave" their "current task"; if you set it up correctly, from their perspective, the user can stay in the exact same place and the only apparent difference is that their uploaded files will now be fully added into the system and available for whatever further use you needed.

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naomip0001
June 10, 2022

Do you have any information on what that correct way is?

mikes0011
mikes0011
Brainy
June 10, 2022

Can you clarify what you're wanting to know?  What's your use case, and what have you already tried, if anything?  In general, what I was talking about above was having a User Input Task which, upon the click of a specific button or submit link, submits the task and chains immediately back into the same task for that user (performing arbitrary in-process work in between).  In the user's viewpoint, nothing will have happened other than that their file will have been uploaded / "verified".

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chiragj3013
October 18, 2023

@sharathp0003
in Appian 23.3 appian introduce a!submitUploadedFiles() function in this function you can use in save into parametar for the upload file without form submission  

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