Copy attachment to Approval

[Mike_R]

In one of our workflows, we have a task and then an approval. I need help copying the attachment from the task to the approval so the attachment gets included in the approval email. Can anyone help me with the script?

[Ankur Bawiskar]

Hi Mike,

Is the email notification on task table or approval table?

There is an option to include attachments in the email notification settings.

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Ankur

[Mike_R]

Approval is on the approval table.

[mike275 · Accepted solution]

It's pretty easy to copy an attachment, you just need the original attachment's table name ('sys_task' in your case) and the sys id for the task (these are the first 2 arguments below). 

Then, the next 2 arguments are the table name and sys_id for the record you want to copy to:

new GlideSysAttachment().copy(originalAttachment.table_name, originalAttachment.table_sys_id, destinationTableName, destinationSysId);

[Mike_R]

Would I add this to the approval activity in the workflow? I guess where I'm struggling is that the attachment would need to be copied before the approval email is sent.