The Attachments Reference Catalog

If the editor has been customized to contain a reference catalog of attachments, then the bottom part of the editor contains additional tab with a catalog of attachments. In this reference catalog, attachments can be handled in the same way as in the attachments dialog. Note that the resulting state of object attachments (additions, removals) is saved together with other changes made to the object in the editor (i.e. by clicking 'OK' or 'Apply').

The reference catalog of attachments consists of the following elements:

• Name

  Attachment name.

• Type

  Attachment file type.

• Size

  Attachment size.

• Location

  Relevant for 'Link' (Rich Client only) and 'Hyperlink' attachments: location of linked file or URL of hyperlink attachment.

• User

  Valuemation user who attached the file.

• Date

  Date and time when the file was attached, actual attachment is done when dialog button 'OK' is clicked ('Attachments' dialog called from a catalog) or when the edited object is saved ('Attachments' dialog called from an editor).

The reference catalog of attachments has the following control buttons:

• Open

  Opens the selected attachment. Valuemation Rich Client: the attachment opens in the associated application, Valuemation Web Client: tries to open the file in the default browser, if not possible - application selection dialog is presented. Hyperlink attachment opens in the default browser.

• Save As...

  For file attachments, opens the standard 'File Download' dialog.
  Saving of multiple attachments is supported and results in a zip file containing all selected attachments. Hyperlink attachments are save as URL files.

• Add File

  Click to create a file attachment. Opens the 'Add File Attachment' dialog to browse for the file to be attached. The file will be stored in the database.

• Add Link

  Valuemation Rich Client only. Click to create a link attachment. Opens an 'Upload File' dialog to browse for a file to be linked. Use with caution - the file will not be stored in the database, only a reference to the local file will be saved. Consequently, the attachment will be useless on another machine and in Valuemation Web Client.

• Add Hyperlink

  Click to create a hyperlink attachment. Opens the 'Add Hyperlink Attachment' dialog where hyperlink descriptive name and URL can be specified.

• Remove

  Removes the selected attachment / attachments - removing of multiple attachments is possible. Attention: no confirmation dialog gets displayed.

• Filtering

  Standard catalog filtering is provided: double-click the filter icon in column header, specify column filtering in the filter dialog which opens and click 'OK'. All applied filters can be cleared using the 'Filter reset' button in the bottom left-hand corner of the attachments tab.

Note: The same actions are also provided via right-click context menu on the attachments reference catalog.