Advanced Techniques - Importing files

With the FileUCHelper, any number of files can can be imported into an Intrexx application as a file attachment. In this example, a time-controlled process that uses Groovy will be used to search through a directory for .png files and then write these to an application as an attachment. You can download an example application, process and four PNG image files here. Unzip the downloaded file. Here, you find the directory image-files-png that contains four PNG files, which you can use for testing, and the file advanced-techniques-import-files-app-process.zip. These can be imported as usual. Further information regarding the class FileUCHelper can be found here. In principle, the following methods are available:


The example application possesses a data group that uses a GUID as the data type of the primary key.



This data type can be selected when you create a new data group.



Furthermore, the data group has a file data field.



The Overview page has a table that is connected to the data field from the data group.



The example process has a Timer with the corresponding Timer event handler and a Groovy script action. The properties dialog of the Groovy script action can be opened by double-clicking on it. There, switch to the Script tab and open the Intrexx editor. You'll find the following Groovy script there.
//The FileUCHelper must be imported as it is not
//directly available in Groovy.

import de.uplanet.lucy.server.businesslogic.util.FileUCHelper
import groovy.io.FileType

// Connection to portal database

def conn = g_dbConnections.systemConnection

// Source directory

def path = 'c:/img/'

// Three sub-directory levels of the source directory should be searched
// for .png and .PNG files

new File(path).traverse(
	type:FileType.FILES,
	nameFilter:~/.+\.(?i)png$/,
	maxDepth:3
){ pngFile ->

// In the closure, each PNG file is made available as a java.io.File under
// the pngFile variable
// For each file, a data record is created which the files will later 
// be attached to
// The GUID is the GUID of the data group in the application

def id = newGuid()

g_dbQuery.executeUpdate(conn, "INSERT INTO DATAGROUP('6D717F5376CFF8B1495B3C13C6C61906AA032134') (STRID) VALUES (?)") {
		setString(1, id)
	}

// Now, the file can be attached to the data set; the GUID here is that 
// of the file data field
// The source file will be moved, and will therefore no longer 
// be found in the source directory

	FileUCHelper.moveFileToIntrexx(g_context, pngFile, "4FB189C11F03607059E658EDBB48602BD7626A04", id, false)
}
Replace the path c:/img/ with the name of the directory where the images, which you'd like to import, are stored. You can, of course, import other file types such as PDF files. The script then needs to be adjusted accordingly.

The executor of the portal service must have write access to the directory where the files are located. This is especially important for network drives. If a directory contains more than just png files, the file extensions need to be checked.

Replace the GUIDs for the data group and data field in the Groovy script with the corresponding GUIDs from your application. You can select your target application in the area Application structure and determine the respective GUIDs there. After you've done that, close the editor and the properties dialog of the Groovy script action by clicking on OK. Save the process and start the Timer from the context menu.



Below, you can see the files in the target application.