saveAttachment()

[Arnab2]

Hi everyone,

The saveAttchment ('table_name','sys_id of record') function will allow us to attach a document to a record.

Can anyone tell me where to locate this function and how it works??

Regards,

Arnab

[Chuck Tomasi]

Hi Arnab,

It's built in to one of the client script libraries that gets sent to the the browser when your page is loaded. I see it mentioned only in two places in the system.

• A UI action called New
• A UI page called assessment_take2

It is not documented in the API info on the developer site nor does it appear to be editable/viewable by admins.

[Arnab2]

Thanks Chuck,

Is there a way to call this function server side?

Regards,

Arnab

[Pavel Zifcak]

I believe it is possible to find the attachment record you create with this function by querying sys_attachment GR limited to table_name and table_sys_id entered as params while calling saveAttachment()

It works even for the table_sys_id which does not exists, I am going to (ab)use it in my UI action available in the list allowing users to add attachment to selected records

• for each such request I will create new fake_table_sys_id and let SN save attachment for it
• then I will send the fake_table_sys_id via GlideAjax to the server together with list of sys_ids of selected records
• there I will iterate over the selected sys_ids and copy attachment identified by its fake_table_sys_id to all of them using GlideSysAttachment.copy(table_name, fake_table_sys_id, target_table_name, sys_id_from_selected)