Retrieve attachments associated with a Nettskjema

Some Nettskjema have fields for attachments. These can be downloaded through this function. There are two naming convention that may be used for the saved files' names. See output of nettskjema_list_attachments for idea of the names used.

nettskjema_get_form_attachments(
  form_id,
  filenames = c("standardized", "original"),
  output_dir = ".",
  token_name = "NETTSKJEMA_API_TOKEN",
  from_date = "",
  from_submission = "",
  ...
)

Arguments

form_id	integer. Number of the form to retrieve
filenames	string of either 'standardized' (default) or 'original' indicating which file names to use.
output_dir	directory to output the files to
token_name	character. Name to give the token, defaults to 'NETTSKJEMA_API_TOKEN'
from_date	date. From which date on should data be fetched for
from_submission	integer. From which SubmissionId should data be collected from.
...	arguments passed to GET

Value

invisible named logical if the file was saved successfully

Details

'filenames types

• "original" - uses file names are they were uploaded to Nettskjema

• "standardized" - creates file names based on the submission id and a counter number to uniquely create file names for each submission (in case there are more than one attachment)

Examples

if (FALSE) {
form_id <- 1100000
nettskjema_get_form_attachments(form_id)

# save files to specific folder
nettskjema_get_form_attachments(form_id, output_dir = "~/Desktop")

# save using original file names
nettskjema_get_form_attachments(form_id, filenames = "original")

}