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Can you insert an image/file into a file upload field using the URL?

Forms Workflow Business Processes Version 9

Updated June 12, 2014

asked on January 9, 2014

Is it possible to use a document stream in the URL for a form to fill in a laserfiche form?

I want to send an email using workflow to users that have rejected forms but may want to resubmit. I want to create a URL with the original information that was rejected, so they can then edit it.

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replied on January 9, 2014 • Show version history

It seems like you're asking, "How can I route submissions back to a user so they can edit and resubmit them."

Assuming that these are named users (or authenticated participants in Forms 9.1), the most straightforward way to do this is within the Process Modeler. You'd just assign a user task to the process initiator with the form used in the message start event.

We do not recommend using a URL to pass binary data into a form.

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replied on January 10, 2014

As I have explained, they are on 9.0 and we do not want to have something as a task when they likely will not go back into the form to indicate they do not wish to resubmit. And we do not want to have forms never terminate unless they are approved, as that is not the way it works.

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replied on January 10, 2014

If the users are named user or authenticated user, you can use the configuration like Eric suggested, and attach a timer event to it. The timer event will wait a pre-defined amount of time period, and if the submitter does not respond within this time frame, you can have the timer event connect to an end event so the entire process ends there. Therefore you will not have any process that never terminates, nor will you have any duplicate instances for the same request.

Generally it's not recommended to use URL to pass binary data into a form. The timer event is available in 9.1 so the customer will need to upgrade.

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replied on January 10, 2014 • Show version history

Please check out the following screenshot, it shows the sample how to use the new Timer Boundary Event to terminate the process if the re-submission is not needed.

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replied on January 13, 2014

As I have said, this is a situation where we do not plan to upgrade to Forms 9.1 yet, so that is not an available option

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replied on January 9, 2014

Is your use case that you want to completely fill out the form for them so it's identical to what it was last time they submitted, but they need to revise the attachment and reattach it?

Based on your level of expertise around here, you may already know how to build the URL to fill out the fields on the form:

add ?parametername=value&parameter2name=value&parameter3name=value etc. to the end of the URL used to access the form. This will only fill out text, number and pull down fields. It will not fill in fields that are part of a repeatable Collection.

I don't know of functionality to automatically attach something to a form.

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replied on January 9, 2014

Well I know we can pull information from the URL and technically, i can give the data stream in a program from a file, so if i have the file, why cant i put it's data stream into a URL and it be there?

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replied on January 9, 2014

With something like this there are obstacles you'll run into:

You can't reliably put more than a few thousand characters in a URL
You need to encode bytes to put them in a URL, which results in significant expansion
File input elements can only be populated by user action for security reasons

This means you would have to put your (small amount of) data in a hidden field and then get Forms to recognize it as an attachment. If the user isn't going to modify this data, it seems unnecessary to route that data to the browser and back.

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replied on January 9, 2014

Yes, i understand about routing back to the form is a bit unnecesary, but the use case is such that the client will be remaining on Forms 9.0 for now and they want to have employees re-submit requests, but not all the time. Changing the process in process modeler would mean they need to open it and hit a button to indicate they do not want to resubmit, which is an extra step just to end a process. It is for this reason I was wondering about this capability.

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replied on June 11, 2014 • Show version history

hello , i have a question related to the URL streaming.

Can i upload a document directly from a third party database using URL, I wan to use it in the integration of a website with laserfiche web access.

Here i have an article that talk about integration without using sdk but there is not a way to upload directly , we can scan search and access directly a file.

http://www.laserfiche.com/SolutionExchange/Article/integrate-laserfiche-with-urls?_cldee=YXNzYWFkLmhhYmVyQGJtYmdyb3VwLmNvbQ%3d%3d&utm_source=ClickDimensions&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=VARNews%202013

Any suggestion please?

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