Overview of Attachment Processing

Attachments associate additional information with a database record. This additional information takes two forms:

• Comment attachments are text

• Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) attachments are addresses to a location on the server such as a document link or an e-mail address

Attachment functionality is associated with an application form. Attachment contents are associated with the data displayed in the form and stored in the database.

The routines described in this chapter provide access to standard methods for manipulating the attachments data files. Set up of the attachment process is explained in more detail in Application Development Workbench Standards.