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recognizing form attachment in exclusive gateway

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Updated August 25, 2017

asked on August 25, 2017

I have a form that the initiator can attach a pdf file to, but its not required. If they do attach something, I need to file it differently in Laserfiche (both the form and the attachment). I am using an exclusive gateway and the default path is to file without the attachment. I can't figure out the conditional expression needed to "know" if there is an attachment. I notice that the variable for the "attachment" has a name for the uploaded file. I tried using "job-description" (the upload field name variable) = *. It seems to ignore me. Is there something wrong with my syntax or is there a better way to do that.

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replied on August 25, 2017

Hi Tom,

You can do this using the variable for the File Upload field and a condition based on whether or not the variable is empty. In my example, this variable is named File_Upload.

Condition for the "has attachment" branch: /dataset/File_Upload!="" (if this variable is not empty, a document has been uploaded and fulfills this condition)

Condition for the bottom, "has no attachment", branch: /dataset/File_Upload="" (if this variable is empty, no document has been uploaded and fulfills this condition. This could also have been set the default path too)

Hope this helps.

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replied on August 25, 2017

Thanks, that answers it. I was looking for a wildcard, didn't think of an empty (null) value.

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