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April 25, 2025
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Uploading files from an interface inside a UIT

  • April 25, 2025
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Hi,

We are trying to upload some files in an Interface inside a User Input Task, we already know that submitUploadedFiles doesn´t work in an Interface inside a User Input Task as mentioned in https://community.appian.com/discussions/f/user-interface/31235/unable-to-use-a-submituploadedfiles-in-site, so we have been struggling trying to achieve this use case.

Just for clarification

  • The User Input Task is in a process model used in a Site page
  • We are using the User Input Task because it was the option we found to share some variables between a couple of interfaces inside the process model
  • We are really new to Appian, so probably there are better ways to do these kind of things

Here some info

  • Site
    /resized-image/__size/640x480/__key/communityserver-components-multipleuploadfilemanager/13f642af_2D00_f604_2D00_496a_2D00_9560_2D00_775427969df6-283275-complete/pastedimage1745529911878v2.png
  • Process model

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  • User Input Task Form
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  • User Input Form Interface (Extract)
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  • Documentos Menu Interface

By the way, currently we use Appian mostly for building our Backoffice UI, so we don't need to store the files directly in Appian, we want to send those files to an own API, so any advice or recommendations are welcome

Please let me know any further explanation. Thanks in advance

4 replies

stefanhelzle0001
April 25, 2025

I describe my approach at the end of this blog post: appian.rocks/.../

April 28, 2025

Hi sir, can you provide an example of this, I am trying to implement this but I get stuck and didn't undestand the instructions at all, thank you.

mikes0011
Brainy
April 25, 2025

Can you provide some more detail though?

  1. what do you want the user to be able to do / what is your desired usage pattern?
  2. what are some of the details for how you're currently attempting to accomplish this?
  3. specifically, what is the current issue you're having?
mathieud0001
April 26, 2025

Yeah I'd start with answering Mike's questions. Not sure if you really need an input task for this.