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Create a form, drag a single text field, and file upload form element into it. Configure each form element as shown below:
| Field Label | Field ID |
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| Item Name | item_name |
| File Upload | file_upload |
| Zip Upload | zip_file_upload |
Figure 3: Form layout
Tick the "Enable Multiple Files Upload" option for the File Upload form element. This will allow multiple files to be uploaded.
Figure 4: Tick "Enable Multiple Files Upload"
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Figure 6: Plugin "From" properties configuration
| Label | Field |
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| Select Form to obtain file | Select the form created in step 1 |
| File Upload Field ID of the file | Insert the ID of the file upload form element
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| Record ID | Record ID uses the hash variable "#form.generated_zip_sample.id#" This will point to the record ID in the selected record row that executes the process tool plugin. In this example, generated_zip_sample is the table name. You may replace the table name in the hash variable with yours.
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Figure 7: Plugin "To" properties configuration
| Label | Field |
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| Select Form to Store Zip | Select the form created in step 1 |
| Target Form Field ID to store Zip File | Insert the ID of the zip file upload form element
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| Target Record ID | Record ID uses the hash variable "#form.generated_zip_sample.id#" This will point to the record ID in the selected record row that executes the process tool plugin. In this example, generated_zip_sample is the table name. You may replace the table name in the hash variable with yours.
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| Zip File Name | The Zip file name is "Zip File #data.mm ss a#" in this example. It will display the time generated and ensure that the Zip file name will be dynamic. |
| Zip Password(optional) | Insert any password. The password used in this example is "test". |
Step 4
Test the app, upon "new record creation" or "record update". The plugin will generate a Zip File in the configured File Upload form element as shown below:
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Figure 10: Plugin "From" properties
| Field | Description | ||
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| Select Form to obtain file | Select the form to obtain the desired files | ||
| Form Field ID of the file | The form field ID of the file upload form element contains the files you wish to zip.
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| Record ID | The record ID that stored the files |
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Figure 11: Plugin "To" properties
| Field | Description | ||
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| Select Form to Store Zip | Select the form to store the generated zip file | ||
| Target Form Field ID to store Zip File | Form Upload field in the selected form to store the generated Zip File | ||
| Target Record ID | The record ID to store the zip files | ||
| Zip File Name | Generated zip file name | ||
| Zip Password (optional) | Zip password
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