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Token for Document Creation Date?

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Updated September 27, 2024

asked on June 24, 2015

I am re-processing some documents in our repository using Workflow and need to be able to get each documents creation date to help rename the document. When I go into the Token Dialog of the Rename Entry activity, I can see Date and DateTime tokens, but nothing that specficies the documents original creation date.

Is there any way to retrieve that using Workflow?

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replied on June 24, 2015

You will need to perform another find entry and then add the created by as additional metadata to retrieve like this.

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replied on June 24, 2015

I guess the issue is that I am not using a Find Entry activity to do the re-processing. We are simply dropping them into a process folder and by doing so, it will kick off the workflow for each entry in the folder. Is there no other way to retrieve the creation date?

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replied on June 24, 2015

This is the best way. I do wish you could add some items like this in the workflow properties for the starting entry sometimes, but find entry with an EntryID stated is a very quick process itself.

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replied on June 24, 2015

Blake - You could get the document creation date using an SDK script activity but to concur with John, the Find Entry activity will do the same thing...

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