Question
Areteans
GB
Last activity: 11 Aug 2017 6:26 EDT
Pega 7.2.2 - Filepath control does not provide file path and file name through hiddenFilePath parameter
We are upgrading one application from Pega 6.2 to Pega 7.2.2.
one section has a filepath control and the absolute file-path of client side can be found from hiddenFilePath parameter in 6.2.
According to this article : SA-23777, the filepath can be found from successfully in Pega 6.2 but this is no longer supported in pega 7.2 if the section has when condition on a layout. Unfortunately we have a when condition on layout and this cannot be refactored into a simple expression because to evaluate the when we need to refresh data from server.
So for such configuration what is the way to retrieve the absolute file name from client thorugh this control.
P.S. we tried using pzFilePathWithForm but this also has the same problem.
Please let us know if any one has any solution to this.
Accepted Solution
Areteans
GB
pzImportFilePath won't fulfill the use case as it requires click event to submit the file to the server.
The objective was achieved using filepath control itself, but some modification was needed in the control.
Added this line, right below the input declaration for hiddenfilepath :
<input type=hidden id="filenamess" name="$PFileNamePage$ppyNote"/>
to copy the file path value in FileNamePage.pyNote clipboard property.
Added this line in saveLocalFilePath js function (present in the control) right before the function finishes :
document.getElementById("filenamess").value = document.getElementById("hiddenFilePath").value, which basically copies the hiddenFilePath's value to the other input element.
With these modifications, the value of the file path was stored in the clipboard property for reuse later.
Accepted Solution
Areteans
GB
pzImportFilePath won't fulfill the use case as it requires click event to submit the file to the server.
The objective was achieved using filepath control itself, but some modification was needed in the control.
Added this line, right below the input declaration for hiddenfilepath :
<input type=hidden id="filenamess" name="$PFileNamePage$ppyNote"/>
to copy the file path value in FileNamePage.pyNote clipboard property.
Added this line in saveLocalFilePath js function (present in the control) right before the function finishes :
document.getElementById("filenamess").value = document.getElementById("hiddenFilePath").value, which basically copies the hiddenFilePath's value to the other input element.
With these modifications, the value of the file path was stored in the clipboard property for reuse later.