Does the File Upload feature not provide a way to view the document?

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Sam

• July 02, 2024 19:42

I have a "File Upload" field that is linked to the sharepoint.  The connection is fine.  I am able to upload and delete the files just fine.  I have the setting checked for "View and Upload files".  I upload the file, and have verified the document appears in Sharepoint, when I click the icon of the uploaded document nothing happens.  I expect the setting of "View files" would bring me to the file url, open it up, something.  

Am I doing something wrong?  Is there a limitation in Agilepoint?

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  Jason Wells

  • July 03, 2024 17:59

  Hello Sam,

  On the eForm where you are checking this, make sure the setting is set to "View, Upload and Download." If you click on the icon next to the uploaded image or file, you will be able to view the file.

  Please see the image below. 

  

   

  Thanks,

  Jason Wells

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  Sam

  • July 03, 2024 18:31

  Jason Wells Thanks for the reply.  If I have the setting "View, Upload and Download." checked and I clicked the document icon you have highlighted, it downloads a copy of the document.  Ideally I want the file to open in sharepoint, but I could settle for some view only thing within Agilepoint.  The user downloading a copy doesn't accomplish what I need.  

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  Jason Wells

  • July 03, 2024 18:49

  Hello Sam,

  My mistake, I was using Box instead of SharePoint.

  The interaction is different from Box due to how SharePoint behaves when you browse the document url directly on the browser.

  Ex: If you can take the Document Url from the AgilePoint schema (stored in the file upload control), go to the new tab and paste it. It will have the same behavior.

  Or you can go to SharePoint -> Document Library -> Folder -> Filename, using this if you construct the document url, [http://[Site]http://[Site Collection Url]/[Document Library Name]/[Folder Name]/[FileName] then also it’s the same behavior.

  If you go to SharePoint directly and click on the document then it opens the document instead of downloading it, if you check the url of it then it is entirely different from the above one it has id’s within the url it is more of encoded url. But AgilePoint store the full document url rather than the encoded url.

  Workaround is: On the form, have a link to the folder rather than to the document. So when you click on the folder, it will take it to the SharePoint and user can view documents from there.

  Thanks,

  Jason Wells

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