HTTP-Server-Input: XML as data and image as attachement

OL Connect Professional Workflow
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Hi,

I have a web form with multiple input fields (gender, name, email) and an upload field where the customer can upload an image. The form will be send to a workflow process where I want to save the image in a local folder and use the input fields as input data (gender, name, email) for the process.

How can I achieve this?

Thanks,
Thomas

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Hello Thomas,

You will need to setup a Workflow process with a HTTP Server input. Set the HTTP Action for this input step, for example: capture_form. Use this value to set the ‘action’ attribute of the <form> element in your web template.

Below a very basic HTML form with the respective action set (Note that you could/should replace localhost with the URL/IP of your Workflow server).

<form action="http://localhost:8080/capture_form" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">
  <label>First: <input type="text" name="first"></label><br>
  <label>Last: <input type="text" name="last"></label><br>
  <label>Filename: <input type="file" name="file" id="file"></label><br>
  <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit">
</form>

On submitting the form you will find the values entered along with the information about the uploaded image in your job data file. See the screendump below.

Hope this is of some help,

Erik

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Hello Eric,

thank you for your answer. It was my mistake. I tried to capture the image directly as an attachment (HTTP-Server-Input Plugin with option “Do not include XML envelope”).

Your way works fine. Thank you very much!

Regards,
Thomas

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Glad it works!

Erik