rcdodd | Posts: 3

How to retrieve file name of a document?

Monday, December 14, 2015 at 05:52am
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Hello! I need to be able to pull down the name of the file that was uploaded with a document in a given package. I see that there is a "FileName" property on the "Document" object, but when I pull a package down and loop through its documents, the FileName is always null. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated! I was directed to this forum from Support. Thanks!
harishaidary | Posts: 1812

Reply to: How to retrieve file name of a document?

Monday, December 14, 2015 at 07:30am
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Hey, The sample code below will show you how to retrieve the document names in a package. The first step is to retrieve the package. Once you have it, you need to loop through the list and print out the document names. Let me know if it helps. 
 public static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            string apiKey = "your_api_key";
            string url = "https://sandbox.esignlive.com/api";

            EslClient esl = new EslClient(apiKey, url);

            PackageId packageId = new PackageId("d9355f04-9bb2-4219-b9fa-734f2650a939");
            DocumentPackage package = esl.GetPackage(packageId);

            IList documentsHistory = package.Documents;

            for (int i = 0; i  documentsHistory.Count; i++){
        	Debug.WriteLine("Document "+ i +" "+documentsHistory[i].Name);
            }
rcdodd | Posts: 3

Reply to: How to retrieve file name of a document?

Monday, December 14, 2015 at 07:41am
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Haris, Thank you, but I have no problems getting at the "Name" property. There is a similar property on that object, called "FileName" --- that is the one I am interested in. It is always null. 
 for (int i = 0; i  documentsHistory.Count; i++){
        	Debug.WriteLine("Document "+ i +" "+documentsHistory[i].FileName);
            }
harishaidary | Posts: 1812

Reply to: How to retrieve file name of a document?

Tuesday, December 15, 2015 at 05:00am
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Do you require something else that "documentsHistory[i].Name" doesn't give?
rcdodd | Posts: 3

Reply to: How to retrieve file name of a document?

Tuesday, December 15, 2015 at 05:09am
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I need the name of the file that was uploaded, not the title of the document. For example: documentsHistory[i].Name == "Power of Attorney Form" documentsHistory[i].FileName == "poa.doc" ----- THIS is the property I'm asking about. This is always null.

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