Question
Common Wealth Bank of Australia
AU
Last activity: 23 Jun 2017 11:27 EDT
Pega 7.2 - Filepath control on a Flow Action doesn't save the file details in pxRequestor page
OOTB filepath control doesn't save the file name in the pxRequestor page, when used as a local action
Steps followed:
Create a link in a section.
Define an onclick event on the link which would refer to a local action.
Refer the flow action with a section that has the OOTB filepath control.
Define a onchange event with "Refresh this Section" action on the filepath control.
Execute the flow and observe that the details of the file uploaded are not saved in the pxRequestor page.
Scenario 1:
If the section with filepath control is included in the primary section without a flow action.
The file is getting saved in the pxRequestor page.
But all other sections referred in this primary section becomes read-only when the any one of the other sections triggers "Refresh This Section" action.
this seems to be a limitation of the filepath control as described in https://community.pega.com/support/support-articles/filepath-read-only-error
Because of the above issue we tried the below:
Scenario 2:
Defined a local action with the same section which has the OOTB FilePath control.
Invoke the local action via a hyperlink from the primary section.
OOTB filepath control doesn't save the file name in the pxRequestor page, when used as a local action
Steps followed:
Create a link in a section.
Define an onclick event on the link which would refer to a local action.
Refer the flow action with a section that has the OOTB filepath control.
Define a onchange event with "Refresh this Section" action on the filepath control.
Execute the flow and observe that the details of the file uploaded are not saved in the pxRequestor page.
Scenario 1:
If the section with filepath control is included in the primary section without a flow action.
The file is getting saved in the pxRequestor page.
But all other sections referred in this primary section becomes read-only when the any one of the other sections triggers "Refresh This Section" action.
this seems to be a limitation of the filepath control as described in https://community.pega.com/support/support-articles/filepath-read-only-error
Because of the above issue we tried the below:
Scenario 2:
Defined a local action with the same section which has the OOTB FilePath control.
Invoke the local action via a hyperlink from the primary section.
When a file is browsed through the filepath control, the details of the files are not getting saved in the pxRequestor pager or in the "hiddenFilePath" variable as defined in the Filepath control.
Anyone else have faced this issue?
How do we save the browsed file details and contents when the Filepath control is invoked from a section via a Flow action?
Please shower some thoughts.
Many thanks.
Regards,
Sri
Accepted Solution
Common Wealth Bank of Australia
AU
We have used another control "pzFilePathWithForm" with "setEncodingNow" to true. This works in local action as well.
Regards,
Sri
Pegasystems Inc.
IN
from recent learning's
- try another control 'AttachFile' or with 'filePath' associated with property 'pyFileUpload'
Hi Narasimharao Pelluru/ @Namburi Varma - please share your observations, Thank you!
Common Wealth Bank of Australia
AU
Hi Phani,
Appreciate your reply.
I have tried both the options and still no luck.
Option 1: with 'filePath' associated with property 'pyFileUpload'
Observations:
Filepath with .pyFileUpload property, does update the file name on the property as per the clipboard.
However, can't see the file uploaded in serviceExport directory.
I need to read the uploaded file content, since its not there in serviceExport directory, I am unable to read the content.
Option 2: AttachFile
Observations:
There was no change even triggered.
Though the file control seems to retain the filename.
I can't find the selected file name in the clipboard.
There is not much happening in tracer as well.
When I opened the control, I can't see a code uploading the file content to a specific directory.
Any other mappings required in either options to upload and read the content?
Please clarify.
Regards,
Sri
Accepted Solution
Common Wealth Bank of Australia
AU
We have used another control "pzFilePathWithForm" with "setEncodingNow" to true. This works in local action as well.
Regards,
Sri
Areteans
GB
Just one question on this thread,
We have used the same configuration but, we can see inclipboard that that the filename is encoded wrongly if there are characters like (,),& etc. also the parameter hiddenFilePath is blank in the clipboard. Upon searching in forum I found this article : SA-23777, which states that if the same section has a when rule for display condition then hiddenFilePath will be blank.
If that parameter is blank there is no way to get a rightly encoded filename.
Have anyone solved this problem ?
Pegasystems Inc.
US