Download attachment from the UI action

Nag9 · ‎06-01-2023

Hi All,

I have a requirement to create a link in ritm form to download a file. When the user clicks on the link, it should download a file, and the form should stay on the same page.

For this, I created a UI action for the ritm table with the below code.

onclick -confirmDownload()

script:

function confirmDownload()

var URL = 'nav_to.do?uri=sys_attachment.do?sys_id=aec12b1b970321100408bde3f153affb';

var down = confirm("Do you want to download the file?');

alert(down);

if (down)

g_navigation.openPopup(URL);

action.setRedirectURL(url);

}

It's working as expected, but the issue is that it's redirecting to some other page. If you remove the if condition, the file will not be downloaded when the user clicks on the UI action.

On clicking on the UI action, a file should be downloaded with specific fields data as in excel format(like export excel) and it should stay on the same page.

Anyone help me on this?

@asifnoor - can you look this thread once

Thanks

Nag

Ankur Bawiskar · ‎06-02-2023

@Nag9

your UI action should be client side and update script as this

No need to use action object

function confirmDownload() {
	var URL = '/sys_attachment.do?sys_id=aec12b1b970321100408bde3f153affb';
	var down = confirm("Do you want to download the file?");
	if (down == true) 
		g_navigation.open(URL, '_blank');
}

If my response helped please mark it correct and close the thread so that it benefits future readers.

Regards,
Ankur
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Nag9 · ‎06-07-2023

@Ankur Bawiskar - Any update on this

Mark Wood · ‎06-05-2023

Hello, @Ankur Bawiskar @Nag9 I am working on the same requirement but in the above code you passing a hardcoded value I want to pass the dynamic value of current attachment.

@Ankur Bawiskar @Nag9 can you please guide me on this?