View (nonspatial) table's attachments?

Question

I feel like this should be easy and yet I'm drawing a serious blank.

How do you easily view the attachments of a non-spatial table? Best I can come up with is browse through attribute table and check the attachments group on the attribute pane, but that isn't great.

Thanks!

AlfredBaldenweck · Answer

I was hoping to store some text files in them (it makes sense in context) and then pull them up as necessary. The thing is the pulling them up part.

MErikReedAugusta · Answer

What you're describing sounds like the only way I can think of to use the UI to browse the photos.  It's clunky, but I think since Pro is so centrally built around a spatial database system, all the non-spatial stuff has always felt kinda secondary to me, in terms of UX & functionality.

I suppose the broader answer, though, would depend on what your use case is, here.  For example, we have photos attached to non-spatial tables in one of our field efforts, but that's because those tables are then related to spatial data.  So I can view the photos from the top-level spatial feature and just navigate down the rabbit hole to see the photos.

If you're looking at attachments that have no connection to a spatial feature, then there's a fair argument for viewing them outside of Arc.  Unless it was a live-updating service of some kind, I'd be tempted to periodically download the attachments and view them in my OS' native file system.  As of Pro 3.3, there's now a built-in tool for extracting attachments, but even if I weren't still on 3.1, there's a strong chance I'd build my own tool in a case like this, so the file architecture maintains the hierarchy that I would've wanted from the table, initially.