Purpose of 'Attachment Name' as Action Input

[Kenneth3]

Hi,

I am creating a connection with IntegrationHub ETL (IH-ETL) and in the Data Source you have to create a Request Action. When creating this, one of the inputs, OOB, is a mandatory field called Attachment Name (see screenshot below). I am wondering what the purpose of this input is.

See also: https://developer.servicenow.com/blog.do?p=/post/orlando-integrationhub/

Hope somebody has an explanation?

Regards,
Kenneth

[SumanthDosapati]

Hi Kenneth,

Inputs are to be added if those values are needed in the action.

For Example : In 'Create catalog task' action in flow designer, RITM is passed as in input to that action so that a catalog task is generated under that RITM.

So similarly when you are creating a new action in flow etc, you need to have inputs which are required for your action to process.

Mark as correct and helpful if it solved your query.

Regards,
Sumanth

[Kenneth3]

Thank you Sumanth, but my question was why this field in this particular case.

[SumanthDosapati · Accepted solution]

That is because you are using a data source request action and it is used for import set via integration. And to import data, a file attachment is needed. so it is asking for the name of attachment.

Regards,
Sumanth 

[ishan_]

Hi Sumanth,

When you import data through REST API, what that has to do with file attachment, also does file attachment mean excel etc. ?