Attachment UI action

[brozi]

I had a request to create UI action for attachments instead of using the lil paper clip icon.

I just grabbed the onclick script (using firebug, firebug is cool!!)

saveAttachment('incident', '');

and created a new client UI action with the same onclick code on the incident table.

Nothing special, but thought some of you could use that to truly make something cool...

[cminarich]

Karthik,

Are you looking to save one attachment to multiple records?   Please advise.

[Community Alums]

Yes, exactly, save attachment to multiple selected records..

[cminarich]

in that case, you would need to change the onClick to a custom function:

onclick: doThis()

then create that function in your script area:

function doThis () {

        //first turn the getChecked into an array

        var csv = g_list.getChecked();

        var array = csv.split(",");

        //then iterate through the array adding the attachment to each record

        for(x=0; x<array.length; x++) {

                  saveAttachment('incident', array[x]);

        }

}

[Community Alums]

Thanks much for the response!!

I have tried this and it works for one record only, even if i select multiple records.

for ex, 3 records i selected, and only one record gets the attachment and not all.

[cminarich]

then it is probably attaching it to the first record in the list.   In that case you can adjust the function to the following:

onclick: doThis()

then create that function in your script area:

function doThis () {

        //first turn the getChecked into an array

        var csv = g_list.getChecked();

        var array = csv.split(",");

        //attach to first elemment in the array

        saveAttachment('incident', array[0]);

        //find the new attachment

        var attGR = new GlideRecord('sys_attachment');

        attGR.addQuery('table_sys_id', array[0]);

        attGR.orderByDesc('sys_created_on');

        attGR.query();

        if (attGR.next()) {

                  var originalID = attGR.sys_id;

                  //then iterate through the remainder of the array copying the attachment to each record

                  for(x=1; x<array.length; x++) {

                            attGR.table_sys_id = array[x];

                            var newID = attGR.insert();

                            var attDocGR = new GlideRecord('sys_attachment_doc');

                            attDocGR.addQuery('sys_attachment', originalID);

                            attDocGR.query();

                            while (attDocGR.next()) {

                                      attDocGR.sys_attachment = newID;

                                      attDocGR.insert();

                            }

                  }

        }

}

Depending on how many records are selected and the size of the file, you might be better off doing this in a script include and passing the array over after the first attachment.   How this helps