Hi all,
I am a bit confused about the ordering of document in attachment tab of livecycle.
My customers ask for a chronological order of document when they add attachment from the workflow. I think the easiest way to do is use a list of document, and add new document at the end of the list whenever it is added, but LiveCycle seems to display them in very strange order.
My scenario is:
LCES process adds 5 documents in the attachment list. (it adds 1 document at first task, 2 at second task and the last 2 documents at the third task)
I create following variable:
- attachmentList: List of <document> (to store and display in attachment tab)
- tempDocument: document (to store generated pdf here and add it into attachmentList)
- genCounter: int (to differentiate if user generate pdf many times)
After generate the pdf, I call a execute script similar as follow:
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import java.util.List;
import java.lang.String;
import com.adobe.idp.Document;
import java.io.File;
Document doc = patExecContext.getProcessDataDocumentValue("/process_data/@tempDocument");
int genCounter = patExecContext.getProcessDataIntValue("/process_data/@genCounter");
File file = new File("finalDisbursementLetter"+genCounter+".pdf");
doc.copyToFile(file);
Document doc1 = new Document(file, true);
List list = patExecContext.getProcessDataListValue("/process_data/attachmentList");
list.add(doc1);
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The order of file being added is (top to bottom):
[1]
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GrantApplicationForm.3214.pdf
draftDisbursementLetter1.pdf
draftPaymentVoucher1.pdf
finalDisbursementLetter1.pdf
finalPaymentVoucher1.pdf
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but when I see in the attachment tab, the order is:
[2]
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GrantApplicationFormFTS000908000017.3214.pdf
draftDisbursementLetter1.pdf
finalPaymentVoucher1.pdf
finalDisbursementLetter1.pdf
draftPaymentVoucher1.pdf
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I have tried with a custom component to list the file name, it still display correct order, i.e. as [1].
Do I miss out any thing or can you let me know what ordering of attachments that Livecycle is using?
Thank you,
Anh
P.S.
When it first add 3 document, i still see it displays correctly. i.e.
[3]
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GrantApplicationForm.3214.pdf
draftDisbursementLetter1.pdf
draftPaymentVoucher1.pdf
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But when adding 2 more documents, the ordering is very strange as [2]
