Show Documents

Show Documents

The Show Documents menu displays the directories, which contain files that are uploaded for the process; which has Document type variable. Documents are a special type of process variables that allows storing arbitrary files in a process. You declare a process variable in your process class through the process designer with the type Documents. When you enter variables, GrailsFlow presents a “Browser” button to upload documents. The file is uploaded and stored in a directory. We create one directory for each day. The file name is cleaned up and extended by the process id and a counter. The link to the file is stored in the DB. If the variable can be changed in a later step, the file can be downloaded and a new version can be uploaded. The new version is stored the same way, so GrailsFlow provides a full version history for documents. 'Show Documents' lists the documents that are attached to processes. Documents are stored as simple files in the file system.