Prepending the Document Category to the Path

Prepending the Document Category to the Path

Some systems support Document Categories and others support Folders.


The SQL Script below will prepend the document category into the folder path. 
  1. --When a document has a category, prepend the folder with the document category.
  2. UPDATE __M_Documents_Digital_Files SET --Prepend the Category Final_FolderName = CONCAT('\', V2.Final_Subject, Final_FolderName) FROM __M_Documents_Digital_Files V1, __M_Documents_Digital_Categories V2 WHERE 1=1 AND V1.Final_DocumentCategory_Id = V2.Id

  3. --Only Prepend it where there is no folder
  4. AND Final_FolderName = '\'

  5. --Don't prepend the category if it has already been prepended.
  6. AND CHARINDEX(
  7. CONCAT('\', V2.Final_Subject, '\'),
  8. V1.Final_FolderName
  9. ) = 0

  10. --Replace \\ with \
  11. UPDATE
  12. __M_Documents_Digital_Files
  13. SET
  14. Final_FolderName = REPLACE(Final_FolderName, '\\', '\')


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