Business rule to download file
Dear Community ,
Is it possible to use a business rule to download a file from the file explorer to the local system?
Thank You
Forum Discussion
Is this for end users to download files or more for system administration / data ETL purposes.
If the former, yeah. This is a super common action we've built into our dashboards. For example: users are looking at a Grid/Pivot of transactional data that corresponds to the intersection they just drilled into. We have a button that says "Export Data". The button does two things:
1) Executes a Selection Changed Server Task, which is a BR that exports the data they see on screen as a CSV to the users temp folder with a common name, and then
2) The button immediately does the Selection Changed Navigation Action - Open File, which opens that file in their local Excel (which effectively downloads it)
The key for these types of actions is to consistently store the files. In the above scenario we use the users temp folder. But you could just as easily tailor this to common Application Public folders.
I'm not as familiar with the system-administration-type, file transfers but it looks like others have suggestions here.