I want to copy an attachment, but how do I do that?

[Tsunemasa Matsu]

Hi,

I want to copy an attachment, but how do I do that?

Is it possible to do this using GlideSysAttachment?

If not, another method is fine.

Copy source：Files attached to the file attachment type column of the abccabc table in the abc application scope

Copy destination：Record of the efgefg table in the abc application scope

Thanks.

[Dr Atul G- LNG]

Hi @Tsunemasa Matsu 

https://www.servicenow.com/community/developer-forum/copy-attachment-from-table-a-to-table-b-in-scop...

[Tsunemasa Matsu]

@Dr Atul G- LNG 

Thank you for your reply.
When I tried to copy using the logic below, when I looked at the sys_attachment table, the destination table name had ZZ_YY attached to it.
I would like to copy the data without the ZZ_YY attached to the destination table.

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var attachment = new GlideSysAttachment();

var targetSysID = 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx';

var copiedAttachments = attachment.copy('ZZ_YYx_xxxxxxx_abc_abcabc', current.sys_id, 'x_xxxxxx_abc_efgefg', targetSysID);

[Ankur Bawiskar · Accepted solution]

@Tsunemasa Matsu 

Your traditional GlideSysAttachment.copy() won't work here i.e. record to record

you need to tweak the logic since you want to copy from Attachment type Field to target record

Example: you can use this server side code in business rule on abc table on record insert and it will add that file to other table record

Note: you need to enhance it further

I did it in background script and it should work in scoped app as well

var targetRecord = new GlideRecord("change_request");
targetRecord.addQuery("sys_id", "6ae8a3272b0366d04a2bfbfdf291bf12");
targetRecord.query();
if (targetRecord.next()) {

    var sourceRecord = new GlideRecord('incident');
    if (sourceRecord.get('00c01445fb5532500db5f8454eefdcc9')) {
        new global.VariableUtil().copyAttachment(sourceRecord.u_my_file, 'change_request', targetRecord.sys_id);
    }
}

Output:

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