What is a blob image/attachment?

[Kat9]

Hey all!

Okay, this might be a very basic question but: What is a blob image?

When an image is attached to an Incident, often it is called 'blob' instead of the name of the image. Why is that?

THANK YOU in advance 🙂

[Alberto Consonn · Accepted solution]

Hi kat,

BLOB is the acronym of Binary Large Object, it's not a ServiceNow term but it's global:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_large_object

Blobs are typically images, audio or other multimedia objects, though sometimes binary executable code is stored as a blob.

Hope this answer to your question.

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Thank you very much

Cheers
Alberto

[Kat9]

Thanks a lot!

[Alberto Consonn]

you're welcome 🙂